The election of general secretary of Unison, Britain’s biggest public sector trade union, is to be challenged at a three day public hearing next week. All four rival candidates – …
The government took advantage of the Trump victory at the US election to release information revealing almost £1 billion of accounting blunders affecting military veterans and control over private management …
The Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (Acas), which sets the gold standard for settling labour disputes, is facing being taken to a tribunal itself for failing to consult its staff …
The cash strapped BBC is failing to recover tens of millions of pounds for broadcasters by not having an up to date strategy on licence evaders. A report by the …
Overworked staff at a Ministry of Justice agency made a series of serious blunders in paying out complex criminal compensation payments to victims, a report by the government’s auditors has …
David Hencke Westminster Correspondent The Liberal Democrats may finally be shaking off their disastrous performance in the last general election and winning council seats in the shires again. In the …
Andrea Leadsom, the new Eurosceptic environment secretary and former challenger to Theresa May, is to be lumbered with paying out possibly hundreds of millions in European Union fines long after …
Michael Gove, the Justice Secretary, has dumped one of the worst performing criminal courts in England and Wales on the new devolved Greater Manchester regional authority.
Civil servants at the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) are planning to go to arbitration as the organisation stands accused of targeting black, disabled and ethnic minority staff by …
Nicky Morgan, Education Secretary and minister for women and equalities, has defied Parliament and appointed a millionaire lawyer to chair the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
A senior civil servant will be given a fresh chance on May 3 to explain the more than £1 billion of criminal assets that should have been seized by the …
A Japanese private rail company has been given approval by the British Government to bid for rail franchises in an attempt to increase foreign competitors seeking to run the UK’s …
Cabinet Office ministers are planning to hand out £1 billion of other people’s unclaimed money and pensions next year to “good causes” to alleviate the cuts to services being implemented …
A major row has broken out between Parliament and the Government over the appointment of a new chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
Theresa May’s claim that “crime doesn’t pay” has been totally undermined by public spending cuts targeting trained financial investigators employed to confiscate the assets of wealthy criminals.
European Union law is blocking Parliament’s spending watchdog from scrutinising banks and finance companies to see if they are now properly protecting consumers in the wake of one of the …
The public body that investigates thousands of complaints against solicitors and barristers for mishandling conveyancing and personal injury cases has paid out more than £1 million in unauthorised benefits to …
The commercial arm of the Ministry of Justice heavily promoted by former Justice Secretary Chris Grayling to sell prison expertise to Saudi Arabia, Oman and other repressive regimes made a …
The Home Office has ditched a so-called “simple guide” advising millions of private landlords how to check the immigrant status of all their tenants just 15 days before the scheme …
The Department of Health is planning to raise £780 million by substantially increasing compulsory inspection fees by the Care Quality Commission for all health and social care services provided by …
A Tory minister who resigned a year ago because the “intolerable” parliamentary expenses system made it impossible for him to live on £110,000 a year has taken 10 new jobs …
A damning criticism of George Osborne’s strategy to make huge savings by relying on new technology to replace civil servants is revealed in two reports by the National Audit Office.
David Cameron’s commitment to improve mental health services is in danger of becoming a casualty of the current spending round negotiations due to be announced by the chancellor, George Osborne …
