The failure to replace outdated IT systems is hindering the government’s ability to reduce the costs of managing its extensive estate, MPs have warned.
The government’s approach of funding social care simply in order to relieve the NHS shows it has the wrong perspective on the importance of care services, peers have said.
Nurses will strike in hospitals across most of the UK on 15 and 20 December after the government turned down more talks, but health secretary Steve Barclay has defended the current pay offer.
UK public sector borrowing last month was the fourth highest October figure since the Office for National Statistics began collecting data, a fact it put down to the government beginning to subsidise...
World leaders are spending on a scale not seen since the 1970s to avert multiple crises. Is it a new era of ‘big government’ – and, if so, who pays for it?
Autumn Statement plans to keep public bodies’ spending tight from 2025 onwards are unlikely to actually be followed when the time comes, economists have said.
Economic volatility from shocks such as wars and Covid-19 have been the “most difficult thing” for Office for Budget Responsibility forecasters to contend with when trying to help the government plan...
Jeremy Hunt sent a welcome strong signal to the markets but has not fixed any of the major problems facing the public sector, according to CIPFA chief executive Rob Whiteman.
The autumn statement may have created as many problems as it did solutions for the government, says Dan Corry, chief executive of the think-tank New Philanthropy Capital and former Number 10 adviser.
Higher borrowing costs and spiralling inflation amid weaker economic growth mean public finances have “materially worsened” since March, the Office for Budget Responsibility has said.
The Autumn Statement heralds difficult times, but councils will show the same determination they always have, writes partnership working expert and local authority trading company chief executive...
Jeremy Hunt’s much-trailed “difficult decisions” have led to real-terms cuts to public investment and seemingly very little for local government and most other services as interest payments eat into...
The Autumn Statement will herald tough times for public services as they struggle with high inflation, increasing demand and constrained funding, CIPFA chief executive Rob Whiteman has said.
The Home Office has no idea what other departments are spending on fraud, despite plans for cross-government collaboration, the National Audit Office has warned.
Any coming cuts to council budgets in the Autumn Statement will probably lead to false economies that cost more in the long term, just like they have in the past, writes Jim McManus, president of the...
The failure of energy watchdog Ofgem to effectively regulate suppliers has saddled households with higher costs and the government with the bill for bailouts, the Public Accounts Committee has said.
Around a third of UK investors that received money from a Covid-19 support fund would have invested money had the fund not existed, an independent report has found.
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Poor understanding of fraud risks and the failure to set targets to reduce incorrect payments could see the government saddled with unacceptable levels of fraud in the benefits system, the Public...