These days you don't even get a nice certificate to keep A question we've been hearing a lot over the last few days is how on earth is the government ever going to repay all this debt it's taking on?...
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It seems that Dudley councillors will soon be laughing all the way to the bank as the Express & Star reveals that they’re in line for a 20% raise in their allowances despite the fact that many of their electorate...
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Kings Fund Chief Executive Niall Dickson commented yesterday that the 2009 Budget must be a ‘wake up call for the NHS’, forcing it to improve efficiency before spending cuts of £2.3 billion are introduced in 2011. But as a consequence...
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Thick gloves required We've blogged public sector pay many times, including the issue of those portly moggies snuggled up in Town Halls and quangos throughout the land. This week the TaxPayers' Alliance published the latest Town Hall Rich List. Despite...
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This week on the Guardian website, we’ve found 515 jobs in local government on offer. You can see on the right the pay grades they offer, with only 2 over £100,000. It shows, week after week for you to see,...
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Yesterday afternoon we got the final communique. Has The London Summit been a success? Have British taxpayers got good value for the huge expense and aggravation associated with hosting and securing the G20? The first thing to note is that...
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A senior Conservative MP has come under fire for complaining about being made to pay an extra £15 a week for his gold-plated pension. Sir Nicholas Winterton, the Tory MP for Macclesfield, complained in the Commons that the rise in...
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A council has been criticised for paying an agency £200,000 for its transport chief despite the post's salary only being £50,000. James Duncan makes a weekly commute from Scotland to carry out the job at Bournemouth council in Dorset. The...
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It is the kind of perk normally associated with fat-cat businessmen. But a manager at a cash-strapped council is being flown 365 miles to work every week - and 365 back again. Bournemouth Borough Council are paying £200,000 a year...
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Fewer than one third of the firms which are meant to be helped by a £300million Government trade body fronted by the Duke of York think it is value for money, the public spending watchdog has found. A report from...
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