An influential Scottish Parliament committee has rejected local authority claims that cash generated by efficiency savings should be reinvested by individual councils.
The Scottish Executive has again missed its targets for paying bills on time, leaving millions of pounds outstanding, according to figures disclosed this week.
Whitehall's chief statistician has called for greater autonomy from parliamentarians in the wake of accusations that ministers have too much control over the way civil service data is used.
Proposals for Labour's first major shake-up of local government since gaining power were unveiled this week in anticipation of the advent of regional government later this year.
Tessa Jowell, the government's culture secretary and self-declared public health 'nanny', has warned that Labour will not be rushed into measures to curb damaging trends such as obesity despite '...
The body charged with ensuring NHS patients have equal access to the latest drugs and treatments has only partially succeeded in achieving its objective.
Government auditors have endorsed the overall reliability of asylum statistics but warn that some aspects of them are 'misleading' because of the way they are presented.
Local income tax should be levied only by large multi-service authorities and at a rate selected from a fixed menu of around five, according to new research from CIPFA.
League tables purporting to show the progress made by primary school children are unfair and misleading and should be abandoned, head teachers have said.
Delivering the new in-depth auditing arrangements for Scotland's councils will be one of the main priorities of the controller of audit, Caroline Gardner, whose appointment was announced last week.
The extra resources being poured into education will not deliver results unless the government frees up teachers' time, ministers were warned this week.
The Audit Commission is piloting the creation of area profiles as a way of building a complete picture of frontline services and quality of life within a specific location.
Government websites for unemployed people and benefit claimants are of poor quality, prone to malfunction and among the worst in the public sector, according to research by a web consultancy.
Network Rail chief executive John Armitt this week claimed the economic benefit of effectively
renationalising track maintenance would be £70m per year, and dismissed claims that the much-maligned...
Bromsgrove District Council is to vote next week on whether it should take the unique step of inviting the government to intervene to help it solve its 'long-standing problems'.
The government repositioned its e-agenda this week with the appointment of a new head of
e-government poached from the private sector and a distinct move towards cost savings through efficiency.
Chancellor Gordon Brown might still need to raise taxes to avoid breaking his 'golden rule' on public spending over the current economic cycle, despite a temporary boost to Whitehall's finances in...
Anti-mafia laws used in the US are to be copied in Northern Ireland to tackle extortion rackets in public sector building projects, the government has announced.
Prison Service staff regularly suffer from stress, anxiety and depression during the course of their work, leading to sickness absence rates higher than the national average, according to the...
