Now here's a marvellous example of Government wasting money on IT projects and for once, actually admitting to it. In 2004, the Department of Work and Pension embarked on a project called the Benefits Processing Replacement Programme and the contractor for the project was IBM. In 2006-07 the project was abandoned having cost the taxpayer £143 million. Now here's the amusing thing, according to th...

Savings even less than the £20 million pa, or less than 1p per person per week, previously projected - now it’s only £4.2 million pa = 0.16p per person per week [ca 49 million population as this is for England only] and it may actually cost more. Plus the real prospect of “total project failure”

Asked about taxation of savings, the Prime Minister s Spokesman (PMS) said that savers benefited from the low inflation environment we were seeing at the moment, including the price of many goods coming down, which protected the real value of savings. Since 1997 we had introduced significant support to help savers with the introduction of Individual Savings Accounts (ISAs), which 18 million now be...

Labour Councillors have unveiled a £5.5 million savings plan which will cut out waste at City Hall and redirect the extra money to helping residents and the local economy. The savings are: halving the Council's communications and public relations budget - saving £1.5 million a year; a 20% reduction in the amount spent on temporary agency admin/clerical staff - saving £600,00...

Hmm, Spain’s in the middle of the worst property crash ever. They’ve got something like a million empty houses across the country and commercial property is even worse. The solution? The ambitious building project will see the skyline to the north of the Spanish capital transformed with the addition of 20 skyscrapers including four towers over 60

Three local authorities serving 1.4 million citizens have signed up to the innovative eBenefits service, taking the number of people benefiting from a transformation in housing benefits and council tax services to 10.4 million.

More than a million hard-up pensioners are being "robbed" of vital benefits because the Government is ignoring plunging interest rates.

Nine million pensioners should be given a tax cut on their savings and investments as their nesteggs dwindle in the economic crisis a coalition of MPs and charities has urged.

The Government today unveiled radical plans to get one million people off benefits and into work through a "something for something" culture.

Building up traffic to a local party or councillor website is much like building up a delivery network: it brings big benefits, but it’s not the sort of thing you can do overnight. They are both best achieved by making slow and steady progress over a period of time. Steadily work your way down the