Energy secretary Amber Rudd is to end to government funding for the Green Deal Finance Company in order to protect taxpayers from both low take up of home improvements and concerns over industry...
The UK Green Investment Bank aims to make a healthy profit for the taxpayer by ploughing £3.8bn of public money into renewable energy, as chief executive Shaun Kingsbury explains
Energy secretary Amber Rudd has announced the government will close the subsidy scheme for onshore wind farms from next April, one year earlier than planned.
The next government should create an independent City Devolution Commission to devolve power over public services and some taxes to every major UK conurbation by the end of the parliament, the RSA...
New planning rules freeing builders from the requirement to build social homes have taken effect. In return, ministers are expecting builders to slash their usual sale prices by 20% in bid to help...
A committee of MPs has called for a moratorium on fracking saying the risks it poses to public health are still unknown, while the activity simultaneously undermines national climate change targets.
Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles is to stop councils from seeking section 106 planning obligation payments for small developments of 10 homes or less.
Government contracts worth £16.6bn to promote renewable electricity generation were poorly conceived and managed and did not secure best value, the Public Accounts Committee has concluded.
The government’s flagship scheme to boost domestic energy efficiency is failing and should be revamped to offer households discounts on council tax for undertaking improvements, MPs said today.
Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles has announced £5m of funding for councils in a bid to encourage recycling without the need for a reduction in bin collection services.
Parish councils and the Local Government Association are to work together to develop community benefit schemes to manage the locally retained revenues from fracking for shale gas.
The Rural Payments Agency manages more than £2.3bn a year to support farmers and landowners. Five years ago, its reputation was damaged by botched reforms. Now the agency has been praised for...
Local authorities should offer council tax rebates to people who spend significant time volunteering in parks and other green spaces, a report by the centre-Right think-tank Policy Exchange has...
Loans for a project to power some 20,000 Scottish homes and a whisky distillery through biomass energy will be guaranteed by the government, it has been confirmed.
Councils have called for local communities to be given as much as 10% of the revenues from local shale gas initiatives after the government opened up the bidding processes for fracking sites.
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Rural Payments Agency have filed a clean set of accounts for the first time in six years, the National Audit Office confirmed today.
The National Audit Office has criticised the government for awarding £16.6bn worth of contracts for eight renewable energy generation projects without a competition.
The management of three local authority-led Private Finance Initiative waste projects has been criticised by government auditors for a lack of clarity.
Public sector procurement of the Hinkley Point C nuclear power station in Somerset could save taxpayers around £12.4bn over 35 years, a report from the CentreForum think-tank has said.
MPs have today launched an inquiry into the effectiveness of the government’s planning reforms amid concerns that some councils are engaging in poor practice to meet Whitehall targets.
