A leading civil servant has warned that public spending cuts could reach 20% over the next seven years and that compulsory public sector redundancies cannot be ruled out
Cases of public sector fraud and data manipulation are set to increase over the coming months as government spending cuts put more pressure on managers to meet performance targets, experts have warned
A long list of essential infrastructure projects is crying out for attention, but traditional funding sources are drying up. Mark Hellowell asks whether the new government agency Infrastructure UK...
The economy has become so dependent on public sector growth that cuts in government spending will have ‘grim’ outcomes for employment and wealth, academics have warned.
The gap between rich and poor is wider now than at any time since the Second World War, despite a decade’s worth of government programmes aimed at overcoming socioeconomic inequality, experts have...
A group of former Whitehall mandarins has called for increased parliamentary scrutiny of the Budget and government fiscal policy, as political tension over the state of the public finances increased...
A Bill giving councils more power over local public spending, viewed by ministers as vital to the success of the flagship Total Place initiative, could be derailed by a single opposition MP.
There will be ‘a cycle of bigger failures and bigger bail-outs’ unless the UK banking system is radically reformed, the governor of the Bank of England has warned
MPs have called for a change in the law to ensure better oversight of local authority investments in the wake of the Icelandic banking collapse, which left £1bn of public money at risk
The police service needs to ‘radically rethink’ the way it provides back-office functions if it is to rise to the challenge posed by looming funding cuts, MPs have said
The Environment Agency has expressed doubts that the Treasury will ramp up funding for flood defences to keep pace with increased risks from climate change
Collaboration between councils and other public bodies will help protect frontline services from the worst effects of the recession, according to a CIPFA report
Senior civil servants in the Scottish Government will have their pay frozen as part of plans to cut spending, Finance Secretary John Swinney has announced
