Last week's Comprehensive Spending Review is already unravelling as dodges, spin, wheezes and downright lies gradually emerge from the thicket of numbers.
The Institute for Fiscal Studies and the Fawcett Society have both shown that women are going to take the brunt of the CSR cuts. We need to have an open discussion about who is losing out and why
If the PFI industry were hoping for a crumb of comfort in the Comprehensive Spending Review, it will be very disappointed. There is hardly any acknowledgment within the CSR that private finance has a...
As the full impact of the Comprehensive Spending Review unfolds over the weeks and months ahead, localism could get an unexpected boost. Councils must focus on their communities, their staff and...
The government's announcements to cut the social housing budget by £4.4bn will hit some of the poorest in society. More and more low-earning families will be forced into unsuitable private rented...
Yesterday's Spending Review gave a greater steer on where the Office for Budgetary Responsibility's forecast of 490,000 public sector job losses will be felt.
Joining up with the third sector can help local authorities to provide good services on shrinking incomes. But, as ever, there are risks as well as rewards, says Andrew Jepp
So Mr 25% has become Mr 19%. Chancellor George Osborne announced some serious cuts in this week's Comprehensive Spending Review, but not quite on the scale previously forecast...
If there is one word that sums up yesterday's Comprehensive Spending Review it is insecurity. Today, Britain is a much less secure place than it was yesterday, nationally, socially and individually
Chancellor George Osborne is hoping that his deficit reduction measures lead to a clean cut. But the difficulties of implementing reform will blunt the blade
Tomorrow's Spending Review should explain whether the government will use cuts in welfare, specifically from child benefit, to fund the bulk of the pupil premium
We all await the results of the Comprehensive Spending Review. But there is a danger that it will be a fig leaf exercise in protecting certain activities for naked political reasons
The Great Quango Cull has turned out to be rather less dramatic than advertised, and the reasons given have shifted from being about saving money to increasing accountability
There is always value in having a fresh pair of eyes to assess how things are done - and Sir Philip Green's recent report highlights many examples of waste in government spending
Much of the pre-Spending Review debate has been about which part of government will bear the brunt of the cuts. But how will the combination of tax rises and spending cuts impact on the UK economy...
