Plans to introduce proportional representation for Scottish local government could add £6m to the administration of elections and other costs, senior officials have estimated.
Any moves to amend the current selection process for government communications officers and other civil servants would be a step backwards, the FDA union warned this week.
Capita, the private sector partner running the Criminal Records Bureau, has been paid a total of £12m to 'compensate' it for the use of paper-based forms, which it claims led to the backlogs in...
Six months ago, Salford City Council was on the verge of setting up an arm's-length management organisation to help it meet the decent homes target by 2010.
The government is 'seriously considering' proposals to hand control of the business rates back to town halls, and privately recognises that firms are not contributing their fair share of funding to...
The Ministry of Defence maintained its woeful record on procurement this week with a report revealing that its top 20 major projects are running an average of 18 months late and £3.1bn over budget.
One million people are expected to complete and return their tax returns on-line this month, making life simpler for taxpayers and assessors, the chair of the Inland Revenue said this week.
The rail industry review announced this week has been hailed as a much-needed dose of common sense by stakeholders and commentators, in spite of an absence of detail.
There was no conflict of interest in the award of a contract for the sale of £400m worth of surplus NHS property, the National Audit Office said this week.
Welsh Assembly ministers must take immediate action to stimulate housing demand in the Heads of Valleys region because the issue is hindering regeneration initiatives, experts have warned.
A major increase in revenue and capital expenditure has been announced by acting Northern Ireland finance minister Ian Pearson, who has published his revised Budget.
The National Housing Federation has delivered a 'hands off' warning to the Audit Commission over its increasingly broad inspections of housing associations.
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.
