The government will extend its ban on new government leases until 2015 to try to save more than £250m in rent and running costs.
The Cabinet Office’s Efficiency and Reform Group is expected to announce the National Property Controls freeze in the comprehensive spending review on 20 October.
The ban was introduced …

The Ministry of Justice is planning a large swathe of job cuts, following an announcement that £2bn of its £9bn budget would be axed.
In a letter to senior staff (Download: MoJ Staff Letter) finance director Ann Beasley said yesterday that “efficiency savings alone” would not be enough to make the …

David Higgins, chief executive of the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA), has topped a list of the highest earners in quangos, published by the government today.
Higgins was in a list of six-figure salaries released by the Cabinet Office of more than 150 senior figures in public bodies.
The ODA features highly, with …

Civil service relocations have slipped off the agenda since the coalition took over. That is the word among Treasury sources.
And with the new administration promising “fast and deep” cuts in next Tuesday’s emergency Budget, slimming down Whitehall will not be viewed as the quickest win by the government.
Yet former Reed …

With details of how the government will cut spending emerging almost daily, it’s hard to determine which announcements will be most significant.
However, a recent measure designed to slash property costs is certainly up there.
On 24 May, the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) extended its controls on new property leases and …

The British Chambers of Commerce has called on the government to introduce a two-year pay freeze in the public sector and protect long-term spending on infrastructure.
Today, the BCC wrote to the chancellor George Osborne ahead of the Emergency Budget on 22 June, calling for capital investment to ensure business confidence …

Property-related civil servants feature in a list of the government’s highest earners published today by the Cabinet Office.
The names of 170 mandarins earning more than £150,000 were released today, including Richard McCarthy, director general of housing and planning at the Department for Communities and Local Government, and Joe Montgomery, its …

The new government is right to make cuts to public sector property and regional development agencies, the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development has said today.
John Philpott, chief economic adviser at the CIPD, has welcomed the promised freeze on civil service recruitment, which was announced as part of Chancellor …

Government cost-cutting plans were yesterday hampered by a High Court victory for the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) over civil service redundancy pay.
Yesterday, Mr Justice Sales ruled that a two-day  judicial review held in the High Court last month had found the previous government’s new civil service redundancy measures, …

Forthcoming public sector schemes could kick start Manchester’s recovery from recession, a report by  Drivers Jonas Deloitte has shown.
Schemes such as the redevelopment of the Manchester Metropolitan University and the proposed Mayfield civil service campus near Piccadilly (plans pictured) were highlighted in the Manchester Crane Survey, published yesterday.
The survey showed …