Tax increases to fund the government's programme of investment in public services have increased the average household's bill by £4,000 per year since 1997, according to a Right-wing think-tank.
Waltham Forest council leader Tony Buckley is set to lose his job after national Labour Party officials suspended him for failing to turn around one of the worst performing authorities in the country...
The auditor general for Wales has demanded that the Welsh Assembly introduce more 'robust' procedures to ensure its audit recommendations are implemented on time, it emerged this week.
A strongly-worded report by the Commons Treasury committee has questioned the competence of the Inland Revenue's leaders.
MPs looked into the tax credits backlog fiasco, the unauthorised suspension...
Reported incidents of violence and aggression against health service staff have increased by almost half since the NHS launched a 'zero tolerance' campaign in 1999.
A report by the Public Accounts...
Southwark council has named Cambridge Education Associates as the stopgap manager of its troubled education service, after consultant WS Atkins pulled out.
CEA will run the service for a year while...
Business consultant Peter Dixon is to be the new chair of the Housing Corporation. He will take over from Baroness Dean, who is standing down in October after six years in office.
Dixon, chair of...
Money for housing management and maintenance is to be redistributed from London to the north of England.
The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister said that new formulas for paying £3bn worth of...
Nearly two-thirds of NHS mental health trusts failed to balance their budgets last year, according to research by the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health.
The financial data of 18 trusts were...
Britain's largest airport operator, BAA, should be broken up because its dominant position is hindering regional economic development, members of the Commons' transport select committee have said....
The National Audit Office will need substantial new resources if it is given the job of assessing whether the government is hitting its plethora of service targets, as MPs demanded this week.
Need a cataract operation, a hip replacement or a heart by-pass? Don't fancy the interminable wait at your local hospital? Fear not.
Within two years, according to plans announced last week by...
Outsourcing firm Capita has been removed from an information technology contract by Norfolk County Council. The company had provided Norfolk's exchequer, payroll, pensions and operational IT services...
Councils will have to produce just eight major service plans by 2006 after ministers unveiled details of long-awaited cuts in the number of documents that must be submitted to Whitehall.
The...
Education managers are urging Whitehall officials to undertake a rigorous analysis of the school funding reforms outlined by Education Secretary Charles Clarke to ensure there is no repeat of this...
The government signalled the extension of its patients' choice scheme this week, only for the policy to be attacked immediately by Unison.
Health Secretary John Reid said that pilot schemes had...
The chief inspector of prisons could soon be granted powers to scrutinise the wider Prison Service in an attempt to prevent the current 'crises' within the sector from exploding.
In an interview...
A timetable for the introduction of proportional representation in local government has been set out by the Scottish Executive.
In a consultation paper, the Executive says the Local Governance (...
The government's attempt to defuse long-standing criticisms of the Private Finance Initiative by tackling some of its more obvious flaws has been greeted with suspicion by the public sector trade...
NHS financial discipline must be tightened and deficits eradicated, Welsh Health Minister Jane Hutt warned this week after a far-reaching review claimed that demand could overwhelm services in the...
A career civil servant from the Child Support Agency is to take over the helm at the Criminal Records Bureau.
Vince Gaskell, change director at the Child Support Agency, was appointed as the new...
Ministers have been warned to stop playing politics with patient care following the publication of the first independent assessments of NHS services by the sector's watchdog.
The Commission for...
Businesses will be called on to make up a multibillion pound gap in the funding of the London Crossrail project, approved in principle by Transport Secretary Alistair Darling on July 14.
The line,...
The Commons' health select committee has criticised the Department of Health for creating two parallel systems for involving the public in the NHS.
In a report published this week, the MPs said...
