High Speed 2 is a “casebook example of how not to run a major project”, say the members of Parliament who make up the Public Accounts Committee.

PBS medicines will cost a maximum of $25 if Labor wins the ... medical giants targeting the "egregious" Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS), promising to make medicines even cheaper from next ...

And unlike many other quality news outlets, we choose not to lock Americans out of our reporting and analysis ... the two-child benefit limit, which is “the single most cost-effective policy ...

Among the changes announced by work and pensions secretary Kendall in the Commons on Tuesday are a tightening of eligibility for the personal independence payment (PIP) disability benefit. Other ...

Liz Kendall said she had made the changes - which will see the eligibility criteria for disability benefits narrowed - because she wanted to "tackle a failing system that is failing the people who ...

The cost of long-term sickness and disability benefits for working-age people has risen by £20bn since the pandemic and is forecast to hit £70bn over the next five years. Ministers have said ...

The PIP assessment process will be reformed, and relied upon as a single way of considering whether someone should be receiving disability benefits. Analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies ...

The Health Secretary has said there is an “overdiagnosis” of mental health conditions with “too many people being written off” as he defended plans to cut the benefits bill. Wes Streeting ...

Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall is expected to outline plans today to get more people back to work and cut the cost of the rising benefits bill. Downing Street has said there is a "moral ...

We are now closing this page, but there is plenty of analysis and news across the BBC: We've spent today covering the announcement of plans for major changes to the benefits system aimed at ...

Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall is expected to set out plans for reform on Tuesday in an effort to get more people back to work and cut the cost of a benefits bill described by ministers ...