Senior civil servants are to be given special training to help them manage major infrastructure projects such as high-speed rail.

Senior civil servants are being sent to "leadership school" amid concerns they do not have the skills to run major projects like the Olympics, welfare reforms and new high-speed trains.

An end to military rule will speed the end of the post-revolution cycle of death and protest, typified by the Port Said football tragedy

A survey of European stakeholders has found overwhelming support for giving priority, funds and planning waivers to allow the speedy construction of European grid infrastructure. More »

Deputy PM to say Coalition plans to raise income tax allowance to £10,000 should be accelerated to tackle growing economic crisis, as pressure on families reaches "boiling point".

Nick Clegg says he wants the coalition government to go "further and faster" in raising the pay level at which people start paying income tax.

The speed at which some criminal cases in Northern Ireland are completed is even slower since a highly critical report in June 2010, a new report says.

Abu Qatada, a radical Islamist cleric once described as "Osama bin Laden's right hand man in Europe", could be back on the streets within days after a judge ordered an urgent bail hearing.

A radical Islamist cleric once described as "Osama bin Laden's right hand man in Europe" could be back on the streets within days after a judge ordered an urgent bail hearing.

Mr John Redwood (Wokingham) (Con): A number of people who have written to me condemning the High Speed 2 project have alleged that Britain has to build it under the EU network ruling. Will the Minister confirm that Britain remains free to make its own decision on whether to have High Speed 2? The Financial