Whitehall's statistics watchdog has moved to end political arguments over the use of civil service data by calling for new laws on how information is presented, claiming that the current setup is '...
The UK's new revenue department is likely to be set challenging targets in the forthcoming Spending Review to reduce the Treasury's estimated £32bn £42bn annual tax gap, it emerged this week.
Some government departments are allowing billions of pounds a year to dribble away through fraud in the public sector because of 'appallingly lax controls', a senior MP warned this week.
Consensus is emerging among the main political parties over the level of spending required to run Britain's public services effectively over the next decade.
Despite the government's commitment to reduce the size of Whitehall, the number of permanent and casual civil service staff increased during 2003, as several departments took on extra...
Lawyers for the Public and Commercial Services union have identified a test-case individual who will front their legal challenge to the Department for Work and Pensions' controversial pay deal.
The concept of 'choice' must be extended across Britain's public services to ensure the government's radical reforms are successful, according to leading thinkers from the two main parties.
Council leaders are to deliver a stark warning to ministers that key public services will suffer unless they are given significant new resources in the forthcoming Spending Review, Public Finance...
Sir Andrew Turnbull, the head of the civil service, has rejected MPs' accusations of 'financial mismanagement' at the Cabinet Office following concerns raised by the National Audit Office.
As governments wrestle with funding growing public services, big business is getting away with millions in tax avoidance schemes. Tightening tax laws could claw back vital cash for social investment
Better assessment of those applying for incapacity and disability benefits is saving the taxpayer £50m a year, the Public Accounts Committee has found.
Senior parliamentary watchdogs this week launched a broadside at the Labour government, criticising ministers for continually blocking Commons committees from cross-examining senior policy advisers...
MPs questioned the credibility of the social security system this week with figures showing that one in five benefit decisions is either wrong or contains errors.
British local government is not powerful enough to underpin a switch to a social insurance scheme for national health care, while Conservative Party plans for 'patient passports' to ease the burden...
Sir Michael Lyons has urged ministers to identify a further 40,000 Whitehall posts for relocation, after Chancellor Gordon Brown this week backed plans to move 20,000 civil service jobs out of London.
Labour activists should make the most of the fact that Labour councils have set the lowest average council tax rises in the forthcoming local elections, the party's leadership has said.
Benefit offices, jobcentres and other agencies of the Department for Work and Pensions could effectively shut down for a full week over Easter unless there is a breakthrough in the dispute over civil...
Pensioners are being urged to claim the council tax reductions they are entitled to as part of a government campaign to stem mounting opposition from older people.
The amount of money lost to the public purse through VAT fraud and error increased by more than £1bn over the past year, according to official estimates.
