Another local authority has pulled out of the government's stock transfer programme because it would prefer to find other ways of improving its housing.
New Labour's obsession with public sector targets has distorted the abilities of the education and health sectors to deliver services the public needs, MPs have heard.
The government has confirmed the appointment of James Strachan, currently chief executive of the Royal National Institute for the Deaf, as the new chair of the Audit Commission.
Sir Jeremy Beecham has made a last-ditch plea to the government to scrap plans to fine authorities deemed responsible for bed-blocking, in advance of next week's Queen's Speech.
Official complaints about elected members of public bodies have risen dramatically in the past few months, following the introduction of a new code of conduct for councillors, the Office of the...
London Mayor Ken Livingstone is likely to oppose government plans to combine the 2004 local elections with the European elections because he fears voters could be confused by the number of ballot...
The Ministry of Defence's £3bn contract for a new generation of attack helicopters faces delay, according to a National Audit Office report published this week.
The MoD is buying 67 Apache...
The Office for National Statistics this week mounted a staunch defence of the way it compiled the 2001 census after fears about the data grew.
Members of the London Assembly are urging its budget...
While ballot frenzy hit London Labour Party ranks this week with the closing round to choose its mayoral candidate for the 2004 elections, the Liberal Democrats admitted that they had no interested...
The effect of Home Secretary David Blunkett's latest attempt to combat Britain's rapidly growing prison population is 'a drop in the ocean' and should be accompanied by wholesale reform of the...
John Prescott was this week unveiling long-awaited planning reforms just as his housing minister firmly indicated that Labour had failed to meet its affordable housing objectives.
Naïve housing associations are rushing into risky deals over key worker accommodation, a leading lender said this week.
Malcolm Kitchener, a general manager at Nationwide Building Society,...
Schools could soon be hosting health and social services, citizens' advice bureaux and even post offices under a pilot scheme to extend their use in the community.
Schools minister Cathy Ashton...
The government has ditched business services firm Capita as its partner to develop a successor to the crisis-hit individual learning accounts.
The Department for Education and Skills announced last...
The chief medical officer for England has ordered an inquiry into the errors that led to 24 patients in Middlesbrough on Teesside being exposed to Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease.
Sir Liam Donaldson...
Negotiations between the Fire Brigades Union and employers were set to go to the wire next week as the two sides attempted to thrash out a deal to avert the first eight-day strike planned for...
Sir Andrew Foster, the controller of the Audit Commission, found himself under fire last week from council chief executives and senior managers who were angered by the watchdog's implementation of...
Six cities have been named by Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell as contenders to be European Capital of Culture 2008, the year in which Britain is guaranteed the title.
Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff,...
The government 'remains committed' to having elected US-style mayors running town halls, even though Labour was beaten in three of last week's four contests.
The party lost control of traditional...
The wrong kind of sand and 'unexpectedly hot' conditions in a desert were among excuses that embarrassed military officials this week provided for a bungled exercise to test British troops'...
Senior MPs were this week critical of news that the partner of a senior Labour minister is the front-runner to chair the Audit Commission.
Members of the Commons' public administration select...
