Conservatives in local government this week defended the sacking of John Redwood, one of the few high-profile members of William Hague's shadow cabinet, claiming he was part of the 'party's past'.
The government's attempts to modernise Whitehall were stepped up this week with the publication of the second report of the Public Services Productivity Panel.
By Maria McHale Education leaders have warned the government that its standards agenda will suffer if councils are forced to fund in full the 3.3% teachers' pay rise announced this week. Education...
Suma Chakrabarti, the modernising head of the Performance and Innovation Unit, has been promoted to lead the Cabinet Office's economics secretariat. He replaces Willy Rickett, who has become head of...
Labour is due to give local authorities an extra £35m in this year's finance settlement but with a warning from ministers that it should be used to curb council tax increases.
The Audit Commission should have its own House of Commons select committee in order to give the public sector watchdog's reports more weight, it was proposed this week.
Computer services group EDS has reached an agreement with the dominant civil service union PCS to harmonise terms and conditions for more than 3,000 employees working for the company across eight...
Gordon Brown has huge room for manoeuvre between tax cuts, spending increases and debt repayment, according to the annual unofficial guide to the chancellor's budget options published this week by...
Housing associations are being asked to provide new management data for the Housing Corporation, to tie in with the introduction of Best Value in local authorities.
A national intelligence unit set up by the government to attack organised benefit fraud is to combine the knowledge of the Inland Revenue, police and immigration authorities.
The government has set aside £20m to help schools introduce the new pay and performance system, schools standards minister Estelle Morris announced this week.
The Commons Committee of Public Accounts has castigated those responsible for the chaos over immigration applications which caused 'enormous personal distress to over 200,000 applicants and their...
A House of Commons select committee is expected to recommend a merger of the Inland Revenue and Customs & Excise in an attempt to streamline both organisations.
Partnerships UK, the successor body to the Treasury Taskforce, may yet take an equity stake in Private Finance Initiative projects, MPs were told on Wednesday.
Three executive agencies have been forced to take urgent action to improve their services as a result of a critical report from the Public Services Productivity Panel.
Representatives of the Confederation of British Industry came under fire this week from a member of the Treasury select committee's inquiry into the Private Finance Initiative.
Inaccurate income support and jobseekers allowance payments by the Benefits Agency totalled almost £1bn in 1998/99, figures published by the National Audit Office have revealed.
Labour's political reform of local government faces its strongest grassroots opposition yet with elected members of a London council threatening unlawful action.
Finance managers have warned that the NHS could be in 'serious difficulty' if it has to fund the inflation-busting pay awards announced this week without further cash from the government.
Andrew Dilnot, director of the Institute of Fiscal Studies and a beady-eyed monitor of public spending plans, is a leading candidate to head the government's revamped statistics service.
Whitehall's poor management skills were highlighted again this week with the publication of two reports which call for vastly improved financial management at both the Ministry of Defence and in the...
