The Scottish Executive is planning to improve the scrutiny of its budget by providing a performance report to allow MSPs to assess whether targets are being met.
The Scottish Executive is to press ahead with controversial plans to reform the voting system for council elections, bringing the threat of a Labour rebellion and strong opposition from local...
Education ministers were this week urged to widen the scope of pupil assessments, after the National Audit Office discovered that most schools achieve similar standards once factors such as...
The question of who is going to pick up the estimated £5m £6m costs of policing US President Bush's state visit remained unresolved this week as the Metropolitan Police Authority called for...
The Scottish Executive this week defended the cost of running the devolved administration after new figures disclosed that civil service numbers have risen by 17% since the Holyrood Parliament was...
Northern Ireland's auditor general, John Dowdall, has issued a disclaimer on the Department for Social Development's 2002/03 accounts effectively refusing to sign them off.
The long-standing battle over the two-tier workforce and pensions were expected to be on the agenda for the first meeting of the Public Services Forum the latest move to build bridges between...
Councils in Scotland will each undergo a new in-depth audit to determine whether they are meeting their Best Value duties, Audit Scotland has announced.
Welsh consultants' overwhelming 'yes' vote in the ballot on their new contract will improve doctors' working lives and help recruitment of senior doctors, the British Medical Association said this...
London and the West Midlands could each gain an extra £150m over three years under plans to let councils keep some of the business rates raised locally, new Treasury figures show.
The proportion of funding raised through council tax should be decreased and other regimes such as local income tax considered to run alongside it, CIPFA said this week.
District councils cried foul and other local authorities renewed threats of council tax rises and service cuts in spite of the proposed 4.7% increase in revenue support grant announced by the...
The spending of the European Union is still plagued with errors, according to the European Court of Auditors, which this week refused to give unqualified endorsement of the 2002 accounts.
There will be a major review of the impact of the first foundation trusts, the government announced this week in a further package of concessions on the controversial initiative.
MPs on the influential Commons' Public Accounts Committee will question Inland Revenue chair Sir Nick Montagu in early December over the National Audit Office's refusal to sign off the Revenue's 2002...
Lessons have been learned from the debacle when a Public Record Office website of the 1901 census fell apart after less than a week, the National Audit Office has said.
Water customers in Scotland were warned this week that they face another increase in their bills unless Scottish Water makes faster progress to boost efficiency.
A leading social services expert has questioned the validity of the government's latest star ratings for councils and the impact of 'trouble-shooting' teams sent to improve second-rate authorities.
