In its Budget yesterday, the coalition government promised to maintain capital spending at the level projected by the last government. What they neglected to say was that Labour had planned to slash...
Rather than moan about the Budget, local government should welcome the opportunity it offers. Local authorities should tell the government they can cut better than Whitehall departments and quangos....
NIGEL EDWARDS | There are plenty of pundits and commentators who assumed or suggested that the reform package proposed by Andrew Lansley during his time in opposition was not particularly radical....
Today saw the last outing for William Gladstone’s famous Budget box, which was made around 150 years ago for one of the most influential figures in British political history.
By now it is clear that Chancellor George Osborne will announce steep tax rises and outline spending cuts that will be pretty horrendous. The good news is that the government is taking the task to...
If the era of new politics is upon us, the emergency Budget next week presents an opportunity for the government to commit to the long term, to supporting people into sustainable work.
His brother's choice of snack makes for fascinating reading, but more interesting still is the peeling away of fellow contender Ed Miliband's layers of compassion
The 'emergency Budget' is almost upon us. It's going to be a game of two halves. On the one hand, with the Office for Budget Responsibility acting as fiscal referee, there's Cameron's promise of pain...
The London Pension Fund Authority Green Paper referred to conditional indexing of pensions increases and the wider implications of this in relation to pensioner representation (voting) on the Local...
It is with some hesitation that I question CIPFA luminary Philip Sellers' comments on the status and position of local government finance directors in today's bleak economic environment.
No, Philip Sellers, it is not 'obvious that the finance director is number two in the organisational structure' ('There must be room at the top', Letters June 4-10).
The waiting is almost over. Last week's CIPFA Conference may go down as the last such event of the old era, the end of the Good Old Days! As new President, Jaki Meekings Davis said in her opening...
Next week's Emergency Budget, and the commencement of the new Spending Review following closely on from the Chancellor's earlier cuts package, are focussing council leaders and chief executive's...
Access to a decent home is a key building block for a happy, healthy life, and unless we want to condemn millions of people on lower incomes to a lifetime of housing misery it is imperative the...
It was US President Harry Truman who reportedly said that he was fed-up with economists who told him 'on the one hand Mr President…', followed by 'but on the other hand…'. Truman said he wanted a one...
Increasing VAT in the Budget will hit the poor more than the rich, have more impact on small firms than big ones, threaten retail jobs, increase tax avoidance and boost inflation
Your web story, 'Union members might accept job losses in return for more say', reports less than 10% of my speech to the CIPFA conference - and so takes the little mentioned entirely out of context.
