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27 Jul 00
Local government leaders are savouring a small but significant victory in their long-running turf war with Westminster over control of frontline services.
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20 Jul 00
Scottish local government workers are gearing up for a summer of industrial action after the collapse of pay talks with employers.
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20 Jul 00
The government is to widen its data access powers with plans to equip benefit investigators with overarching new rights to access people's bank accounts, pension plans even gas bills under a...
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20 Jul 00
Municipal contractors and companies which have public service as well as private contracts will have to keep separate financial accounts under new European Union rules.
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13 Jul 00
E-envoy Alex Allan has admitted that the government will not meet its e-government targets without substantial help from the private sector.
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13 Jul 00
The government scrambled to rebuff mounting criticism of its flagship New Deal scheme this week, after claims that it had made little impact on the labour market and that even its own departments...
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13 Jul 00
The NHS nursing recruitment crisis could get much worse if the government does not improve nurses' working lives, the King's Fund said this week.
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13 Jul 00
A Commons committee has severely criticised Foreign Secretary Robin Cook and Trade and Industry Secretary Stephen Byers for agreeing to help fund the controversial Ilisu dam in Turkey.
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13 Jul 00
Just two out of five local authorities in London are coping with complex changes to housing benefit introduced during the past year, according to a new report.
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13 Jul 00
The government's favourite stick-and-carrot approach to public services is to be applied to the NHS with a vengeance. To the best, a bundle of cash; to the worst, the black spot.
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13 Jul 00
The Audit Commission is considering a radical review of its fee structure and audit process so that small local authorities pay lower amounts.
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13 Jul 00
The overall annual expenditure for each of the next three years was announced in the Budget, but the departmental spending plans for the next three years are still being finalised and ministers are...
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13 Jul 00
Ways of making government more transparent and accountable are to be explored by members of a steering group appointed this week.
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13 Jul 00
Government plans to restructure rents could significantly reduce the sums available to finance social regeneration, the National Housing Federation warned this week.
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13 Jul 00
The Treasury has ordered drastic action to curb unacceptably high levels of ill-health retirement among public sector workers that cost taxpayers £1bn a year in pensions.
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13 Jul 00
The world's first web-based procurement system for the public sector has been launched in the US, just one week after the UK government abandoned similar plans for departments in Whitehall.
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13 Jul 00
Criminal justice agencies are wasting up to £85m a year by failing to work together effectively, MPs have claimed.
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13 Jul 00
Local authorities remain concerned about the financial burden of coping with asylum seekers, despite news that the government will support newcomers who are not entitled to benefits.
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13 Jul 00
Leader of the Commons Margaret Beckett has rejected claims that the government manipulates the selection of MPs for select committee posts to ensure minimum opposition from backbenchers.
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6 Jul 00
The chairman of the Public Accounts Committee has slammed the Ministry of Defence's management of major equipment procurement projects following a critical report from the National Audit Office.
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6 Jul 00
Democracy activists in Liverpool are launching a campaign for a directly elected mayor in the city.
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6 Jul 00
In a manoeuvre which is bound to antagonise the Department for Education and Employment, the LGA has teamed up with the Capita Group to launch its own consultancy service to shore up beleaguered...
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6 Jul 00
MPs have severely criticised the Treasury for its failure to respond to the recommendations of last year's urban task force.
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6 Jul 00
The Local Government Association has condemned Conservative Party plans to bypass local education authorities as 'barmy'.
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6 Jul 00
The government's vision of town halls delivering services to the public via the Internet and digital TV will fail without further funding, local government leaders have warned.
27 Jul 00Local government leaders are savouring a small but significant victory in their long-running turf war with Westminster over control of frontline services.
