Ninety-eight percent of local authorities say they will meet the government target of offering all their services on-line by the end of this year, according to the latest assessment.
A £500m reduction in benefit fraud by the Department for Work and Pensions has been wiped out by rising overpayments to claimants, the DWP's permanent secretary admitted to MPs this week.
As the political parties compete for the most radical cuts to red tape before the election, they are turning their magnifying glasses on to regulation and inspection. While a pruning is overdue, it...
The shadow chief secretary to the Treasury is unafraid to speak of huge Whitehall cuts in his plan for better public services. Joseph McHugh heard his battle strategy
Schools and colleges are not doing enough to ensure that they purchase everything from photocopiers to supply teachers cost-effectively, according to the man heading education's procurement...
Pathfinder programmes set up to boost demand for housing in the North and Midlands have struggled to spend money on worthwhile projects, says the Audit Commission.
Risk registers are becoming ever-more numerous and elaborate, but they are not worth the Word documents they are printed on if they fail to engage with the everyday business of their organisation
Neighbourhood boards are the latest big idea for getting the public to improve the services they use. But will this US invention work here, asks Chris Skelcher
If the forthcoming social care green paper avoids spelling out the cost of long-term care for older people, Sir Derek Wanless's review is likely to be less coy, argues Paul Gosling
Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott urged Labour councillors to unite behind the party and 'stop talking and scribbling' in the run-up to the general and county council elections.
Local government unions look likely to press ahead with ballots for industrial action over controversial new pension regulations, despite last-minute talks with ministers to avert politically...
Electronic Data Systems, one of Whitehall's largest IT contractors, has eased fears about its financial health by reporting a profit but the government has revealed it has investigated the company'...
Finding a blueprint to tackle Britain's looming pensions crisis is one of the major challenges Work and Pensions Secretary Alan Johnson has set himself, he told Public Finance this week.
The Wanless franchise keeps on growing. Not content with producing two influential reports on future NHS funding and public health, the former NatWest chief executive this week announced he is...
Despite ministers' rhetoric, the long-awaited reform of Incapacity Benefit outlined this week drew on a familiar political solution to a troubling financial issue: cut basic state payments to...
The Inland Revenue has denied that it was unable to cope with thousands of last-minute tax submissions this week, despite acknowledging that its website ground to a halt as the January 31 deadline...
Government auditors delivered some much-needed good news for the Department for Work and Pensions this week, heaping praise on its management of a Private Finance Initiative deal.
Local government employers have slammed trade union plans to take strike action over pension scheme changes as 'unjustified, precipitate and ultimately futile'.
Work and Pensions Secretary Alan Johnson this week suspended plans to axe 25% of staff at the troubled Child Support Agency, but in the process reignited the row over government plans to cut 80,000...
Scottish Executive permanent secretary John Elvidge has confirmed that civil service jobs will be lost in Scotland as part of the Gershon efficiency review.
