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27 Jan 00
The Audit Commission should have its own House of Commons select committee in order to give the public sector watchdog's reports more weight, it was proposed this week.
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27 Jan 00
Suma Chakrabarti, the modernising head of the Performance and Innovation Unit, has been promoted to lead the Cabinet Office's economics secretariat. He replaces Willy Rickett, who has become head of...
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27 Jan 00
Best Value audit and inspection fees are likely to cost English and Welsh councils £56m.
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27 Jan 00
The government has set aside £20m to help schools introduce the new pay and performance system, schools standards minister Estelle Morris announced this week.
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27 Jan 00
The Commons Committee of Public Accounts has castigated those responsible for the chaos over immigration applications which caused 'enormous personal distress to over 200,000 applicants and their...
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27 Jan 00
A House of Commons select committee is expected to recommend a merger of the Inland Revenue and Customs & Excise in an attempt to streamline both organisations.
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27 Jan 00
Gordon Brown has huge room for manoeuvre between tax cuts, spending increases and debt repayment, according to the annual unofficial guide to the chancellor's budget options published this week by...
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27 Jan 00
Housing associations are being asked to provide new management data for the Housing Corporation, to tie in with the introduction of Best Value in local authorities.
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27 Jan 00
A national intelligence unit set up by the government to attack organised benefit fraud is to combine the knowledge of the Inland Revenue, police and immigration authorities.
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27 Jan 00
Computer services group EDS has reached an agreement with the dominant civil service union PCS to harmonise terms and conditions for more than 3,000 employees working for the company across eight...
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27 Jan 00
Three executive agencies have been forced to take urgent action to improve their services as a result of a critical report from the Public Services Productivity Panel.
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27 Jan 00
The public sector has failed to get behind the New Deal in the same way as business, Education and Employment Secretary David Blunkett said this week.
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27 Jan 00
National park authorities are angry over the government's failure to fund their Best Value audit costs.
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27 Jan 00
Partnerships UK, the successor body to the Treasury Taskforce, may yet take an equity stake in Private Finance Initiative projects, MPs were told on Wednesday.
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20 Jan 00
The governors of Pimlico School have called for an urgent meeting with ministers and demanded a public inquiry into the planned Private Finance Initiative scheme earmarked for the school.
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20 Jan 00
Though few NHS managers would deny nurses and doctors their inflation-busting pay awards, the government's acceptance of the review bodies' recommendations has given them an almighty headache.
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20 Jan 00
Whitehall's poor management skills were highlighted again this week with the publication of two reports which call for vastly improved financial management at both the Ministry of Defence and in the...
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20 Jan 00
Andrew Dilnot, director of the Institute of Fiscal Studies and a beady-eyed monitor of public spending plans, is a leading candidate to head the government's revamped statistics service.
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20 Jan 00
Finance managers have warned that the NHS could be in 'serious difficulty' if it has to fund the inflation-busting pay awards announced this week without further cash from the government.
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20 Jan 00
Inaccurate income support and jobseekers allowance payments by the Benefits Agency totalled almost £1bn in 1998/99, figures published by the National Audit Office have revealed.
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20 Jan 00
Effective community strategies will be at the heart of achieving Best Value in housing, local authorities were told this week.
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20 Jan 00
Labour's political reform of local government faces its strongest grassroots opposition yet with elected members of a London council threatening unlawful action.
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20 Jan 00
Housing associations could face tougher risk management controls under plans being considered by the Housing Corporation.
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20 Jan 00
Councils are to be given financial incentives to encourage them to detect housing benefit fraudsters.
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20 Jan 00
Representatives of the Confederation of British Industry came under fire this week from a member of the Treasury select committee's inquiry into the Private Finance Initiative.
27 Jan 00The Audit Commission should have its own House of Commons select committee in order to give the public sector watchdog's reports more weight, it was proposed this week.
