The Accounts Commission in Scotland has told councils to review their policy on financial reserves after it was disclosed that these currently amount to almost 9% of total annual expenditure.
Council leaders are to deliver a stark warning to ministers that key public services will suffer unless they are given significant new resources in the forthcoming Spending Review, Public Finance...
The concept of 'choice' must be extended across Britain's public services to ensure the government's radical reforms are successful, according to leading thinkers from the two main parties.
Sir Andrew Turnbull, the head of the civil service, has rejected MPs' accusations of 'financial mismanagement' at the Cabinet Office following concerns raised by the National Audit Office.
Spending on economic development in Scotland has fallen as a share of the total Scottish budget in the period since devolution, a research report has disclosed.
For the first time, 18 teams have been selected as finalists for the Public Servant of the Year awards. The teams will join 21 individuals at the final ceremony in London next month.
Former deputy prime minister Michael Heseltine has dismissed the office of London mayor as a 'non-job' insufficiently powerful to manage the economic changes likely to affect the capital over the...
A badly botched procurement deal has left the armed services with a £259m fleet of helicopters that can be flown only in clear weather and above 500 feet, the National Audit Office has found.
As governments wrestle with funding growing public services, big business is getting away with millions in tax avoidance schemes. Tightening tax laws could claw back vital cash for social investment
The Welsh Assembly government will find it difficult to forge ahead with the proposals for increased autonomy in the long-awaited Richard Commission Report should it choose to back the plans.
Communities Minister Margaret Curran has announced a £284m investment package for affordable housing in Scotland, a 7% increase on the figure for 2003/04.
The Scottish Executive is on course to meet the majority of targets set out in its draft budget for 2004/05, Finance and Public Services Minister Andy Kerr announced this week.
Whitehall's union leaders have asked ministers to clarify the nature and extent of job cuts and relocations urgently, following the Lyons review and the chancellor's Budget statement.
Better assessment of those applying for incapacity and disability benefits is saving the taxpayer £50m a year, the Public Accounts Committee has found.
Perplexed MPs took a senior Audit Commission manager to task on March 30 for failing to give a clear answer on whether the commission should take over housing association regulation from the Housing...
Fire authorities are being dilatory in implementing the modernisation agenda due to come into force following last year's firefighters' strike, the Audit Commission says.
Doctors' leaders have warned that the government's determination to make public services competitive may undermine general practice and is tantamount to a trade in patients.
The Local Government Association has launched a review of the Improvement and Development Agency as part of its programme to scrutinise its central bodies.
