Education and health emerged as relative winners from today's Spending Review, with the chancellor pledging an overhaul of the school funding system and reaffirming the government’s commitment to the...
Local authorities face a further two years of the council tax freeze and a 10% budget cut in the Spending Review for 2015/16, Chancellor George Osborne has said.
The government’s Troubled Families Programme is to be expanded to provide targeted help to an extra 400,000 households at risk of suffering from a number of social problems, the Treasury has...
Funding for local bus services should be protected in Wednesday’s Spending Review, MPs said today. The Environmental Audit Committee said spending on buses was vital to ensuring that people were able...
There is no need to limit this week's Spending Review to one year or to have it so early. These decision are caused by the desire of the two coalition parties not to tie themselves together ahead of...
Having severely cut Departmental Expenditure Limits, the Chancellor promised in the Budget to cap Annually Managed Expenditure. He should go further in the Spending Review and rethink the DEL/AME...
Another six Whitehall departments, including the Home Office, have reached agreement with the Treasury on spending cuts for 2015/16 ahead of the June 26 Spending Review, it has been announced.
More than 40% of council chief executives and leaders now fear Whitehall funding reductions will lead to frontline service cuts, a dramatic increase on the 2% who voiced these worries a year ago,...
Local government could face cuts of up to 12% in the forthcoming Spending Review if the government decides to lessen the pain doled out to the Home Office and Ministry of Defence, the Institute for...
Former care minister Paul Burstow has urged the government to set out a clear plan for the future of adult social care funding in the June 26 Spending Review.
A Labour government would consider means testing the winter fuel allowance paid to pensioners and use the savings to fund health and social care, Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls said today.
The government is on the way to managing its finances as well as the best-run FTSE 100 companies, Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude said today as he announced that Whitehall exceeded its savings...
Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander has indicated the government will expand the number of ‘whole place’ Community Budgets in next month’s Spending Review.
The Department for Communities and Local Government is among seven Whitehall ministries that have signed up to extra funding cuts of between 8% and 10% in 2015/16, Chancellor George Osborne announced...
The National Audit Office has today slammed the Department for Transport’s ‘unclear’ business case for the High Speed 2 rail line, warning that the scheme faces a £3.3bn funding gap.
Councils are facing a financial black hole of around £15bn in 2019/20 as a result of rising demand for services, such as social care, and government funding reductions, local authority chief...
The UK economy would be boosted by as much as £100bn a year if the country’s transport and energy infrastructure matched standards in Europe, the Centre for Economics and Business Research said today.
The Ministry of Defence's £159bn procurement plan relies on 'uncertain' efficiencies and an unconfirmed budget increase in next month’s Spending Review, the Public Accounts Committee has warned.
Councils could start to ‘fail’ their communities if the government imposes further cuts in the June Spending Review, the Local Government Association warned today.
The UK has yet to make a ‘sustained recovery’ from the financial crisis as economic output has been flat for more than two and a half years, an analysis by the National Institute of Economic and...
