Equality campaigners have mounted a legal challenge to the emergency Budget, claiming that it exacerbates differences between men’s and women’s incomes
The Treasury has been accused of taking a ‘blunderbuss’ approach to public spending cuts by the think-tank founded by Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith
The government's tough austerity measures could create a potential bonanza for outsourcing firms as the public sector looks to cut costs in education, health, local government and police services....
Cutting Housing Benefit will not only affect those families that rely on it, but could widen the poverty gap and affect the recovery, says Campbell Robb
This week's all-change health white paper might make for flashy headlines. But the new head of the King's Fund has doubts about the detail. Chris Ham talks to David Williams
Chancellor George Osborne has announced that the Treasury select committee will be given a veto over his choice of chair for the Office for Budget Responsibility
Scottish Finance Secretary John Swinney has called for a wide-ranging debate on the tough choices that lie ahead following a warning by his chief economist that Scotland faces long-term spending cuts...
The outgoing chair of the Office for Budget Responsibility has denied he was forced to rush out revised employment figures following political interference
The Office for Budget Responsibility made last-minute revisions to its public sector employment forecasts just before the Budget, leading commentators to question its independence
Things really did get better under New Labour. But now we need a new settlement for progressive politics and public service reform, say Lisa Harker and Carey Oppenheim
Sir Alan Budd is to step down as chair of the Office for Budget Responsibility at the end of July, after just one three-month term in the job, it was announced today
The Budget revealed for the first time the scale of the austerity ahead - and it amounts to the longest and deepest period of public spending cuts since the Second World War. Rowena Crawford and...
We are told that private sector workers faced widespread pay freezes last year and now it's the turn of pampered public servants to feel the pain. But much of this argument is based on urban myths,...
Councils in Scotland would lose millions of pounds if their legal right to chase up local tax debts was restricted to five years, leading finance officers have warned
The government is pressing ahead with its pledge to radically cull the number of quangos, with regional development agencies among the latest in the line of fire
The government is pressing ahead with its pledge to radically cull the number of quangos, with regional development agencies among the latest in the line of fire
Think we've got problems? This weekend's G20 summit in Toronto will put Britain's austerity Budget in context. Dan Corry reports on the global economic tensions that threaten to undermine the recovery
