The multi-billion pound NHS IT programme will be scrapped earlier than planned with local health trusts given the power to choose their own systems instead... more
The Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, makes one thing clear to his party today: notwithstanding our stubbornly low rate of growth, the Government has no intention of doing an about-turn on fiscal austerity... more
Pilots of the RAF's most advanced fighter jets are being grounded because shortages of aircraft spares mean they cannot put in enough flying hours to keep their skills up to date, MPs warn... more
Last night's result in the Barnsley Central by-election was welcome enough for Labour, pushing up the party's majority despite low turnout. But for the Liberal Democrats it was an unmitigated disaster... more
MPs strongly criticise HM Revenue and Customs over a multi-billion-pound private finance deal with an offshore property company to manage part of its offices... more
Labour spent more than £780 million on reorganising government departments over the past five years despite producing no tangible benefits for taxpayers... more
The transcript of a conversation between the Prime Minister and the mother of a soldier who died in Afghanistan has driven the Government's failures to equip troops adequately to the top of the political agenda... more
Alistair Darling’s second Budget was inevitably a downbeat affair, designed to shore up the nation in the midst of what he called the “most serious global economic turmoil for over 60 years”
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The number of teenagers from poorer homes going to university has barely increased under Labour despite a government investment of almost £400 million, MPs said... more
Ministers were lambasted over benefit fraud after a top Whitehall mandarin said it was now "impossible" to get losses below £1.2 billion a year... more
More students are dropping out of university than ever before - and one writer whose son did so says the education system must stop betraying them... more
The Commons Public Accounts Committee's report on the spiralling cost of the London Olympics makes painful reading for Tessa Jowell, the minister responsible... more
When London bid for the 2012 Games it sought to secure a wide range of legacy benefits, including transforming the landscape and opportunities for a substantial part of east London... more
London universities have been criticised by MPs for failing to cut student drop-out rates as new figures reveal one in four fails to complete their course... more
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