The Bank of England has started printing money in another attempt to revive the economy. In the first of our Budget Watch series, Charles Davis discusses the likely impact of this move and looks...
The Irish economy, feted by Alex Salmond, might end up needing IMF support packages and could be evicted from the eurozone. Now there is a concern that the effects will spread to Northern Ireland
The work and pensions select committee joined the chorus of concern about the government’s flagship Flexible New Deal programme as unemployment figures continue to grow
Health Secretary Alan Johnson has told MPs it is ‘inconceivable’ that the NHS will face real-terms spending cuts from 2011, when the government aims to restore the public finances after...
Experts have given a cautious welcome to the government’s attempt to get the economy back on track with the unprecedented measure of quantitative easing
The financial crisis has thrust Treasury select committee chair John McFall into the limelight. He talks to Judy Hirst about bankers, bonuses – and dealing with hooligans
The lights are on in the Treasury but who’s minding the tills? After hiving off so much responsibility for fiscal and monetary policy, the department is not in good shape to tackle the biggest...
The long-term effect of the economic downturn on the public sector will be to focus attention on cost-cutting, warned the Treasury’s director of public services
An overhaul of attitudes to fiscal responsibility is needed if the US is to remain the world’s pre-eminent economy, former US comptroller general David Walker has warned
The banks have been pulling out of the Private Finance Initiative and the contractors are struggling. As a scheme designed to transfer public sector risk becomes a growing liability, frantic efforts...
Charities have called on politicians to ‘hang their heads in shame’ after official figures revealed that social services spending on elderly people fell last year
The Audit Commission has admitted to MPs that councils’ treasury management capability was not on its ‘risk radar’ until after the Icelandic banking fiasco that has swallowed up £...
Doctors, nurses and other clinicians must take greater control of NHS expenditure, an unprecedented joint statement by medical and financial institutions has said
Plans to announce the preferred bidders for the Flexible New Deal contracts have been put on hold while the government and potential contractors renegotiate terms, it has emerged
The economic downturn has thrust public sector finance directors into the spotlight, giving them a vital role in piloting their organisations through a tough financial period, CIPFA chief executive...
A CIPFA panel has called for radical changes to the Local Government Pension Scheme regulations after finding that tens of millions of pounds are being lost
