More than half of Welsh councils are owed money from private developers which should be going towards community facilities.

Private equity millionaire and Labour Party donor Nigel Doughty has died at the age of 54.

Chris Huhne's resignation as Energy Secretary will be a loss to the cabinet and the Lib Dems, his former parliamentary private secretary tells BBC News.

There are two fundamental problems with the analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies of the current negotiations on public sector pensions. Firstly, the IFS compares public sector pension provision with that of the private sector and implies that the inevitable disparity has to be rebalanced by cutting the public sector rather than improving private sector provision.

To summarise the current UK position, ‘demand management’ is out (no money left and anyway it didn’t work), so growth must come from supply-side measures (excluding subsidies or protectionism), and from ‘natural’ private sector growth (born of financial stability and debt reduction). With the peculiar separation in the UK which has evolved between ...

The Treasury wants an inquiry into how widespread is the practice of paying salaries in the public sector to private companies

Glenn Mulcaire, the private detective at the heart of the scandal, has been ordered to reveal who commissioned him to intercept voicemails

Following Florida victory, former private equity chief says his campaign for Republican nomination more interested in bolstering middle class

Luciana Berger MP, Labour’s Shadow Climate Change Minister, has criticised Energy and Climate Change Ministers for spending over £70,000 on away days to private members clubs, hotels, Fulham FC’s Craven Cottage Stadium and the London Wetlands Centre.  

Alan Whitehead pressed the Government in Parliament yesterday over measures to tackle spiralling house prices and rents in the south of England. In Southampton, the average house price is now 9 times the average income, and the average rent for a two-bed home now accounts for 46% of the average income - one of the highest rent to income ratios in the country. Shelter's Private Rent Watch (p50...