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Former cabinet secretary tells The House magazine that next week's vote is "merely advisory" and says MPs would be entitled to press for a second referendum

Chancellor says Treasury civil servants planning for the impact of leaving the EU on financial stability in the UK – but Number 10 maintains no wider policy planning taking place

Bernard Jenkin accuses government of "rotten" concessions to unions in exchange for EU campaigning – and is met with scorn by fellow PACAC member Paul Flynn

Border Force resource budget will be £558.1m for 2016/17 – a cut of 0.4% on last year – but the agency gets a capital spending boost

Plans to make higher-earning council tenants pay more in rent suffer series of defeats by peers

Chancellor says: "I’ve made adjustments to my plans to make sure we are going to live within our means"

“We are going to have to make further savings equivalent to 50p in every £100 the government spends by the end of the decade,” chancellor tells the BBC

Overall block grant will be at least as high as it would have been under the Barnett Formula – while Scottish government gets extra borrowing powers

Treasury committee says 2014 intervention by then-chief secretary Danny Alexander “gives the appearance of a minister trying to lean on the OBR”

Prime minister still trying to thrash out solutions to other member states’ concerns about EU renegotiation

Prison performance will be subject to greater transparency, David Cameron set to say, while governors will be handed greater control over the education of inmates

Productivity plan "must avoiding collecting dust on Whitehall bookshelves" by including concrete measures of success, BIS committee says

Upper chamber pushes for income-related measures to be retained

 UK Statistics Authority "deeply concerned" about "unauthorised, widespread sharing of statistics before their publication"

National Audit Office says Department for Work and Pensions has improved oversight of Employment and Support Allowance tests - but warns of "perpetuating cycle of optimistic targets, contractual underperformance and costly recovery"

Lord Strathclyde recommends new law to ensure that the red benches can only ask the Commons to “think again” 

Department "must prioritise front-line work like flood protection" as it reduces its resource spending, environment committee says

Pressure on Care Quality Commission resources is showing through report errors, say MPs, as CQC chief David Behan (pictured) says regulator has been "working hard to improve"

Chancellor eyes more austerity in first interview since yesterday’s cuts announcements – while the IFS says departmental settlement is "very, very tight"

Ministers reportedly seeking vote on the self-imposed welfare cap after tax credits rethink

Fees may create "perverse incentives", justice select committee warns

Sale price £280m more than the “book value”, George Osborne announces

With science and research spending already below the OECD average, new report by the Science and Technology Committee calls on the Treasury to "safeguard both the quality and the productivity of our science base"

New "Office for Students" and Teaching Excellence Framework among measures in business department's Green Paper

Ministers vow to "sort out the relationship between the Commons and the Lords" after government forced into tax credits rethink

Labour asks the NAO to look into Just Solutions International

Foreign secretary tells the House of Commons that some cleaners contracted to FCO were made redundant because of estate downsizing – and not because they sent him a letter about their pay

Investigatory Powers Tribunal says Wilson Doctrine has 'no legal effect'

Institute for Fiscal Studies gives its assessment ahead of the Spending Review – and warns easier efficiency savings have already been "identified and delivered"

From crowdsourcing to the use of apps, Meg Hillier is determined to transform the Public Accounts Committee into a “digitally-savvy” body that reaches out to taxpayers. The new chair speaks to Josh May

Former attorney general – and recent critic of government's human rights plans – elected to lead the Intelligence and Security Committee

Select committee to question OBR's Robert Chote after e-mails show Treasury seeks changes to wording of draft forecast

Royal United Services Institute says protection of Ministry of Defence budget alone may not be enough to safeguard against wider threats

Committee chair warns change to rules ahead of Europe vote has "cast a shadow of doubt over the propriety of the process"

MoJ consults on plan to close 91 courts and tribunals and merge 31 more

Labour MP Simon Danczuk calls for DPP to step aside as Right to Review scheme orders "trial of facts" over Lord Janner abuse claims