A total of 11 Whitehall departments have now agreed provisional Spending Review deals with the Treasury, Chancellor George Osborne announced, but the real-terms reductions in spending agreed so far...
Welsh finance minister Jane Hutt has called for Cardiff Bay to be given additional financial freedoms in the forthcoming Spending Review in order to boost infrastructure investment.
There is little disagreement with the principle of government’s plans for devolution revolution in England. But now that the chancellor has begun putting his money where his mouth is, it looks like...
Former health secretary Stephen Dorrell has called for social care and public health funding to be protected in the forthcoming Spending Review, saying to cut these budgets while increasing NHS...
Local government will face a £16.5bn funding gap by the end of the decade if council funding is cut by 30% in this Spending Review, ministers have been warned.
Whitehall will not be able to cut spending and bring about a more efficient state unless it improves its management of outsourcing deals, Prime Minister David Cameron has been warned.
Implementation of 40% spending cuts to council funding in next month’s Spending Review would deliver a “knockout blow” to many local services, according to analysis from the Local...
Urgent steps must be taken to plug the funding gap in adult social care if councils are to continue to provide dignified care for elderly and disabled people, senior local government figures warned...
Government plans to double the amount of free childcare available for three- and four-year-old children could be underfunded by as much as £1bn, according to a analysis by the Institute for...
The government’s four-year plan to cut public spending by £20bn will be published on 25 November, George Osborne has announced, with unprotected Whitehall departments being asked to...
Developing the role of finance professionals in government so they can act as partners across Whitehall will be critical to securing value for money in the next spending review, a report has...
Families with disabled people have been most affected by government’s spending cuts and tax and benefits changes since 2010, an analysis carried out for the Equality and Human Rights Commission has...
The civil service must begin preparations for the post-election Spending Review in 2015 now to ensure planned public spending cuts can be delivered, the Institute for Government has said.
As the June Spending Review extends austerity cuts across government, ‘smart skills’ will be essential for Whitehall finance staff to address the challenges
The proposed national eligibility threshold for social care is to be based on the current ‘substantial’ need level used by councils, care minister Norman Lamb has announced.
The man who promised to 'intervene before breakfast, lunch and dinner' is back, and demanding a new local growth plan. Lord Heseltine talked to Judy Hirst ahead of the Spending Review
The government will fund or guarantee £300bn of capital spending by the end of the decade, Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander has announced.
Public sector pay rises are to be limited to an average of 1% in 2015/16, the chancellor confirmed today as he set out plans for that year in his Spending Review.
Welfare spending is to be capped to control the overall cost of the benefit bill from April 2015, Chancellor George Osborne announced in the Spending Review.
The Spending Review provided evidence that the coalition is starting to think more radically, and attack some tougher fiscal targets. There must be no let up in this approach
