Third term challenges become clear
Press Review 9 May 2005
Today's papers look ahead to the challenges facing ministers as they settle in to their new departments this week.
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Watchdog warns Whitehall on waste
News Article 19 October 2004
A powerful committee of MPs has warned Whitehall's big spending departments to keep a tight grip on their finances as the Treasury provides more funds.
Government efficiency plans face twin assault
News Article 26 July 2004
Gordon Brown's public sector efficiency drive has come under fire from the Conservatives and the CBI.
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Brown pledges job help for redundant civil servants
Press Review 16 July 2004
The chancellor has pledged to help civil servants who lose their jobs in the government's efficiency drive find new employment.
Brown survives Treasury committee grilling
News Article 15 July 2004
Gordon Brown has been grilled by MPs on the fine print of his comprehensive spending review.
Union warns against public sector job cuts
News Article 14 July 2004
Public sector employees have urged MPs to back them in their campaign against large scale job cuts.
Prescott sets out new homes plan
Press Review 14 July 2004
John Prescott has pledged to put sustainable communities at the heart of the government's housing strategy.
Hodge welcomes childcare boost
Press Review 14 July 2004
Interviewed in the Guardian, children's minister Margaret Hodge welcomes the boost to childcare in the spending review but says: "What we are absolutely not about is providing warehousing for children in childcare."
Chancellor warns civil service unions not to strike
Press Review 14 July 2004
Gordon Brown has told the civil service unions that their threat of strike action would not save the 104,000 jobs that he has decided to cut.
Brown accused over asset sales 'con'
Press Review 14 July 2004
The Liberal Democrats have accused Gordon Brown of misleading the public over plans to sell off £30 billion of government assets, after it emerged the figure includes land and property owned by local as well as central government.
Brown defends civil service jobs cull
News Article 13 July 2004
Gordon Brown has claimed that the 100,000 civil service job cuts announced in his spending review are achievable without hitting frontline services.
Spending review: Union anger at job cut plans
Press Review 13 July 2004
The main civil service union came out fighting last night after the government revealed the full extent of its plans to cut Whitehall waste, inefficiency and jobs.
