Category: Public services policy

Investment in UK’s crumbling public services is pro-growth, says pensions minister

Exclusive: Torsten Bell defends Labour’s spending plans, saying ‘the status quo is economically and morally bankrupt’Britain’s crumbling public services are bad for business, and spending more...

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Reeves warned UK inflation will push public sector unions to seek higher pay rises

Plan for ‘reasonable’ 2.8% rises may prove insufficient, forcing chancellor to find billions in extra funding Reeves has three ways to dodge an economic crisis – all are unthinkableRachel Reeves has been warned...

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GB Energy faces ‘challenging’ task to find CEO for Aberdeen HQ, sources say

Industry insiders say it will be ‘tricky’ to find suitable candidate who would agree to location and civil service payBritain’s state-owned energy company faces a “challenging” task to find a chief...

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AI prototypes for UK welfare system dropped as officials lament ‘false starts’

Exclusive: Pilots for staff training, jobcentres and speeding up disability benefit payments not being taken up‘Serious concerns’ about DWP’s use of AI to read correspondence from benefit claimantMinisters have...

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Treasury seeks to keep water firm fines earmarked for sewage cleanups

Exclusive: Restoration fund in England could be ‘siphoned off’ to be used for general government spending, not repairing rivers Rachel Reeves’s Treasury is looking to keep millions of pounds levied on polluting...

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What does AI plan mean for NHS patient data and is there cause for concern?

Key questions answered around potential use of health data to train AI models under Labour’s proposalsUK ministers have committed to creating a National Data Library for building artificial intelligence models, as part of...

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