The top 25 equipment projects commissioned by the Ministry of Defence are expected to cost £2.8bn more than originally forecast and will enter service on average more than three and a half years late...
A scientific research council has been severely criticised by the Public Accounts Committee for a 'lack of management grip' in the implementation of a new computer system.
The Treasury will give financial backing to any Private Finance Initiative scheme that ends up on the public sector balance sheet because of new accounting rules, Public Finance has learned.
Michael Bichard, permanent secretary to the Department for Education and Employment, has been created a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in the Queen's Birthday Honours list.
The Data Protection Registrar has warned councils that an overzealous pursuit of data matching could undermine attempts to modernise the way the public gains access to services.
An £84m hole has been discovered in the accounts of National Savings, the government agency that offers personal savings products to the public to help finance the National Debt. Fraud has not been...
Housing associations and community groups were this week invited to copy a savings and loans scheme established in Cambridge to improve low-income tenants' access to affordable loans.
The first takeover of one council-owned airport by another was confirmed this week when Manchester Airport successfully completed its purchase of Humberside International Airport.
Rent reform should begin immediately, with a major increase in the subsidy paid to registered social landlords, ministers were told by the National Housing Federation this week.
Local Education Authorities found themselves in the government's sights again this week when Prime Minister Tony Blair stepped up the attack on spending on schools.
The government admitted last week it is prepared to change the data protection laws if they obstruct its plans to modernise the delivery of public services.
The future of national pay bargaining for 1.6 million local government workers is up for grabs, following the launch of a three-month consultation by the Employers' Organisation.
