Ministers insist infrastructure projects will avoid pitfalls of earlier PFI deals
We have higher expectations of services than providers can offer from the taxes we actually want to pay
The UK government must now show it can turn investment into growth
Chancellor set to give NHS a 2.8% real-terms rise in annual day-to-day spending over three years
Settlement likely to ease tension with unions but add fresh strains to departmental budgets
The 1.52bn hours a year Britons spend on personal admin are both enraging and hitting our productivity
Indebted local councils want to turn even more of the capital’s WCs into bars, cafés and shops
Amanda Pritchard calls for ‘radical’ rethink as NHS struggles with highest maintenance backlog on record
Plan to change public procurement rules to boost local growth and job creation
Downing Street says wages can rise above inflation only with productivity gains to match
Whitehall departments say rises of more than 2.8% for NHS staff and teachers in 2025-26 would be unaffordable
But some Whitehall departments including the Home Office face real terms cuts to their budgets
Doctors, teachers and police have slipped down the earnings distribution since 2007
One in five are due to retire this decade, warns Aslef, as staff shortages continue to be felt
Starmer’s Labour government will be judged on whether it can fix healthcare
Crisis gripping health service in England is ‘laid bare’ in damning review by Lord Darzi
Decision to accept recommendations of pay review bodies in full was ‘a choice’, experts say
UK chancellor says ‘there is a cost to not settling’ even as Treasury grapples with straitened finances
The King’s Speech identified a government ready for fights on housebuilding and welfare
Think-tank delivers scathing verdict on manifesto promises of Labour and Conservatives
Big cash injection needed to prevent nurses and teachers falling further behind private sector, think-tank warns
Neither Tories nor Labour are being upfront about what is needed to fix them
Limited election pledges a ‘downpayment’ for future investment, says Labour leader
Hospitals, train companies and police among areas with large decline, Ipsos/FT poll finds
Jeremy Hunt also pledges to add £2.5bn to health service’s day-to-day spending in 2024-25
