Scottish universities have urged the Executive to provide £102m of annual funding to enable them to undertake new activities and compete with their counterparts in England and abroad.
Audit Scotland plans to put more emphasis on the experience of service users as a means of strengthening its analysis and reporting of public expenditure, auditor general Bob Black has disclosed.
Benefit offices, jobcentres and other agencies of the Department for Work and Pensions could effectively shut down for a full week over Easter unless there is a breakthrough in the dispute over civil...
Bath and North East Somerset Council has rejected criticisms that its 1999 stock housing transfer was littered with 'inappropriate and unlawful' actions this week.
Local government employers are poised to offer around a 2% pay increase this year, half of the unions' claim, under pressure to stick to Treasury inflation targets and keep council spending down.
Local authorities have 'not woken up to the scale of the challenge' presented by the introduction of the Freedom of Information Act due to come into force in 2005, according to the commissioner...
Chancellor Gordon Brown faces tough choices over public spending and may have to cut investment in key services to balance the Treasury's books, according to an influential think-tank.
The government's radical plans for introducing choice across the public services are to be put under a spotlight in a wide-ranging inquiry by senior backbench MPs.
The Conservative Party's review of waste and bureaucracy in the public services has already identified savings 'significantly in excess' of the £35bn-a-year target set, Oliver Letwin has told Public...
The health service and EDS are to take their differences to mediation after it emerged that the IT outsourcing company was seeking compensation for the cancellation of its e-mail contract.
The Office of Government Commerce has generated savings of £1.6bn by streamlining procurement of goods and services well over its target of £1bn by March 2003.
Primary care trusts are redesigning services to improve access to local NHS treatment, but implementation is patchy and is being hampered by a lack of management capacity, the Audit Commission said...
The results of a three-month consultation on the best ways to prevent illness will be used to inform a public health white paper and affect NHS spending priorities between 2005 and 2008.
The amount of money lost to the public purse through VAT fraud and error increased by more than £1bn over the past year, according to official estimates.
The Commons Treasury select committee is demanding that Treasury permanent secretary Gus O'Donnell explain a three-month delay in the publication of a report outlining the future of the Inland...
Chancellor Gordon Brown is being urged to clamp down on public sector spending because the rising tax burden it has generated is not being matched by increased productivity, according to business...
NHS hospitals are ill-prepared for the biggest change in junior doctors' working hours in the past ten years, the British Medical Association warned this week.
A grassroots campaign to get rid of Doncaster's directly elected mayor, fuelled by popular anger at large pay increases for the authority's top brass, has won the backing of more than 10,000...
