Bristol's Labour councillors may be dismayed after the city's residents shot their education spending plans to pieces last week in the first budget referendum to be held in a major city.
The code of conduct for government ministers should be beefed up and lines of accountability strengthened, according to a cross-party committee of MPs.
E-minister Patricia Hewitt has defended the decision to allocate only £30m towards the government's goal of extensive fast broadband Internet access across Britain by 2005.
The motorists' licensing body completed its Millennium Bug preparations only at the last minute and had no workable contingency plan if it failed to meet the deadline, according to the National Audit...
Crisis-ridden Hackney Council has launched a fraud investigation following the discovery of irregular cash transfers between bank accounts, Public Finance has learned.
The director-general of the Prison Service, Martin Narey, has told MPs that his recent threat to resign was an attempt to galvanise governors he felt were slow to instigate reform.
Local government leaders are breathing a sigh of relief following publication of the government's long-awaited white paper on the knowledge economy on February 13.
Sir Michael Bichard, permanent secretary at the Department for Education and Employment, has announced unexpectedly that he will leave Whitehall at the end of May.
The Local Government Association has asked the Treasury to fund a £200m shortfall created by the teachers' pay increase agreed by the government last week.
The government should quadruple the 'participation premiums' given to universities for admitting students from poor socio-economic backgrounds, according to the Commons education select committee.
A consortium of Welsh local authorities is demanding the Home Office keep its promise to reimburse them for money spent developing services to help asylum seekers.
A powerful committee of MPs has slated the Lord Chancellor's department for its lax handling of the failing Public Trust Office. It also questioned the decision to pay the PTO's departing chief...
Although local authority fraud is down for the first time in ten years, councils still face an uphill battle to control housing benefit fraud, the Audit Commission warned this week.
Chancellor Gordon Brown could be sitting on an even bigger budget surplus than anticipated because government departments are not spending their allocations, according to the Institute for Fiscal...
A last-minute £188m cash injection into this week's local government finance settlement may not be enough to head off mounting pay and service pressures, warn councils.
William Hague has promised that the next Conservative government would 'deregulate' schools and hospitals as part of a drive to boost standards in public services.
