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.
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...
A culture change rather than extra resources is needed if police forces are to transform communities into places where people feel safe from crime, the home secretary told a conference this week.
The stage is set for a showdown between ministers and town hall leaders after authorities defied government orders not to set council tax increases above 5% and issued warnings that budgets could not...
A group of 19 Welsh Labour MPs has signed a petition to Welsh Secretary Peter Hain opposing any increase in powers for the National Assembly unless backed by a referendum.
The prudential framework for local authority borrowing is about to have a major impact on Glasgow's regeneration, according to the city council's chief executive, George Black.
Pensioners are being urged to claim the council tax reductions they are entitled to as part of a government campaign to stem mounting opposition from older people.
Watchdog MPs have called on the government to remedy a bizarre situation in which MPs asking official Parliamentary Questions have less chance of extracting information from Whitehall departments...
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...
Local government needs to take on board lessons from the retail sector if it is to re-engage with the population it serves, according to the prime minister's senior adviser on public service reform.
The government should test out directly elected mayors in at least two big cities, where they would be most suitable, the New Local Government Network claimed this week.
Nick Raynsford has confirmed that the government will not exercise reserve powers to limit how much local authorities can borrow when the Prudential Code comes into force on April 1.
The £245m government fund set up to encourage innovation across the arts and sciences is weighted too heavily in favour of London, and access to one of its three programmes is too narrow, according...
Too many new childcare places are being created with no thought given to how they can be sustained once public funds are exhausted, a senior MP said this week.
The government faces a tight deadline to extend trials of new voting methods this summer, after peers blocked proposals to increase the number of all-postal elections in June.
