If the concern is that pay at the top is too high then the obvious solution is simply to have a maximum pay rate. This won’t affect lower paid workers in any manner: companies are already, clearly and obviously, paying sufficient to attract the staff they desire. A brief glance at the unemployment rate shows that.

Companies have made more than £2billion by trading debt in schools and hospitals built using Private Finance Initiative funding, a new report shows.

The Tories have been talking about "Gordon Brown's Debt", but as far as I can see, the fiscal deficit is not the problem. Consider two great debts: one is the public debt, the debt held by our government; the other is the private debt, the debt held by businesses and private citizens. Lets say that the public debt is £500 billion and the private debt is £1,500 bi...

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

The Chancellor's claim that swingeing public expenditure cuts are essential to deal with our massive public debt is clearly wrong (your reports). Like private hous

The endless rows over “cuts” at a time when public spending continues to rise in cash terms highlights yet again the totally different approach to public service by the private and public sectors. In 2008-9 many private sector companies faced declines in their revenue of

In March, local London newspaper Ham & High reported that the Tory-run Barnet Council were paying a private security company to secretly film residents at open meetings. Now, documents uncovered have revealed how private security firms are regularly used by other councils across England and Wales to “control the public".

What is the true price of Gordon Brown’s economic incompetence and inept bank regulation? The soaring national debt is one. And if you own a mortgage, you’ll find that you’re paying another. The gulf between the Bank of England base rate and the average mortgage rate is now at a huge high – as banks rip off their customers, trying to fill the hole in their balance sheets. T...

Coalition’s £56m a day bill to private companies Woowee, eh? The coalition has contracted private companies at the rate of nearly £56.6m a day since January, according to a Guardian analysis of government documents that casts new light on the extent of Whitehall’s reliance on firms to do its work. Ooooh, my! The Treasury spent

Alistair Darling will not raise the amount of cash he wants from the new 50p income tax rate because high earners will find ways to avoid paying it, experts say.