Civil service targets to increase the numbers of ethnic minority staff in Whitehall are unrealistic, inaccurate and disappointing, the chair of the Commission for Racial Equality has warned.
Local government leaders are savouring a small but significant victory in their long-running turf war with Westminster over control of frontline services.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
Government plans to restructure rents could significantly reduce the sums available to finance social regeneration, the National Housing Federation warned this week.
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...
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
