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National Audit Office report on The BBC’s implementation of Across the UK

The BBC has made progress transferring commissioning, production and journalism outside London, according to a new National Audit Office (NAO) report...

Friday, 24 November 2023 00:01

Making Tax Difficult: HMRC losing sight of customer in tax changes, PAC report warns

HMRC has lost sight of needing to put customers at the heart of changes to the tax system...

Friday, 24 November 2023 00:01

Defence outsourcing could save taxpayer money, says new IEA paper

The greater use of outsourcing in national defence could encourage efficiency, innovation and better services and equipment for military personnel...

Friday, 24 November 2023 00:01

Government must act now to fix crisis in local audit, say MPs

Local audit is in crisis and the Government must take urgent action to fix it, says the cross-partyLevelling Up, Housing and Communities (LUHC) Committee in a report published today...

Friday, 24 November 2023 00:01

Calls for a UK International Rail Strategy on World Sustainable Transport Day

Campaign for Better Transport is calling for an International Rail Strategy to help increase cross border rail travel and reduce emissions from aviation...

Friday, 24 November 2023 00:01

Scottish Government: Glasgow ‘fundamental to Scotland’s economic success’

Wellbeing Economy Secretary Neil Gray will tell a conference that Glasgow must keep reinventing itself as a major driver in our country’s economy...

Friday, 24 November 2023 00:01

Revealed by Labour: women in their 30s £4,000 a year worse off than in 2010

Labour’s Anneliese Dodds has today slammed the Conservatives for “thirteen years of failure" to deliver for women as new figures show that women aged 30-39 are almost £350 a month worse off than in 2010...

Thursday, 23 November 2023 22:30

Preferred candidate for Chair of the Committee on Standards in Public Life

Lieutenant General (Retired) Doug Chalmers CB DSO OBE has been announced as the government’s preferred candidate for the role of Chair of the independent Committee on Standards in Public Life...

Thursday, 23 November 2023 18:04

Policy Paper: Accelerating reform in adult social care in England

Setting out the department's priorities for innovation and scaling in adult social care, including identifying, recognising and supporting unpaid carers...

Thursday, 23 November 2023 17:59

National Insurance Contributions (Reduction in Rates) Bill - copy of bill and explanatory notes

A Bill to make provision for and in connection with reducing the main rates of primary Class 1 national insurance contributions and Class 4 national insurance contributions, and removing the requirement to pay Class 2 national insurance contributions....

Thursday, 23 November 2023 16:45