The BBC's regulator, its own board of governors, should be fully independent of the corporation and granted wider powers to control the public body, a leading think-tank has claimed.
Negotiations over local government's long-running London weighting quarrel turned sour this week after the capital's council leaders walked out of the latest meeting and suspended the body set up to...
A council's tenants have delivered a major blow to the government's housing strategy after rejecting proposals for an arm's-length management organisation on January 9.
The Department for Transport has emphatically dismissed claims that it scrapped a Strategic Rail Authority report highlighting chronic underinvestment in the rail infrastructure.
Cambridgeshire County Council is warning of a 10% hike in its council tax if the government forces it to fully passport funding to schools, despite meeting ministers' minimum spending targets.
The government is planning a crackdown against 31 councils on a secret Whitehall hit list identifying those likely to set inflation-busting council tax increases, as the issue dominated the political...
Regeneration minister Jeff Rooker is to take control of planning in the Milton Keynes area as the government proposes to double the size of the town as part of its communities plan.
Government auditors have praised the Department for Transport for its role in the refinancing of the troubled National Air Traffic Services' public-private partnership.
Eleven new English NHS walk-in centres are to be set up over the next two years as part of the government's drive to extend patient choice and widen access to health services.
Rabbi Julia Neuberger, the former chief executive of the King's Fund, has been created a dame commander of the Order of the British Empire in the New Year's honours list.
A wide-ranging overhaul of the civil service in Scotland, including the recruitment of leading figures from business, is planned by First Minister Jack McConnell.
The prospect of strike action by 100,000 civil servants at five government departments loomed large this week after members of Whitehall's biggest union began voting on what they described as '...
A bitter political row has broken out this week after the Welsh Assembly government announced that it was going to tackle bed-blocking with money earmarked by Chancellor Gordon Brown for keeping down...
Northern Irish consultants' acceptance of a new contract will boost doctors' morale and improve patient services, the British Medical Association said this week.
Local government employers want an end to the traditional annual pay talks in favour of multi-year deals, with both English and Scottish councils looking for two-and three-year packages.