Economy

As cross-party power-sharing talks collapse, decisions made by senior officials in absence of an executive are challenged in Belfast High Court 

Transport Select Committee says failure has wider implications for rail franchising 

Move follows Public Accounts Committee observation that up-front borrowing could have reduced the cost to consumers of the £20bn Hinkley Point C project

Tailored review urges Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government to give garden city development corporation more financial freedom

Appointments watchdog publishes advice letter to Ameetpal Gill over contract with Oliver Letwin’s cross-party Brexit initiative

Treasury has handed £150m to official receiver for overseeing company’s liquidation, it has been revealed 

Tax agency will move 2,700 staff to second Scottish regional centre by 2021

Proposals indicate that the firm, which went out of business last month, expected to be able to get double its profit margins on some Whitehall contracts

Nationalising the service currently operated by Virgin Trains is one of two options for services after franchise “got its sums wrong”

Programme manager bags runner up slot in literary springboard the Costa Short Story Award

Shadow body overseeing hubs programme and New Property Model expected to go live last year

Vote by parliament to release analysis comes after it was leaked to media

Lombardelli will take up post in April following departure of Sir David Ramsden

Brexit minister accused civil servants of undermining EU exit after economic analysis of EU exit leaked

PCS calls for pause in programme and more resources for HMRC as it plans for post-Brexit customs landscape

After two years as Westminster’s chief public-spending watchdog, Meg Hillier tells Tamsin Rutter her frustrations and aspirations on pre-scrutinising projects, taking the fight against tax evasion to the US and extending FOI

BEIS programme manager makes literary springboard’s ‘final three’ 

Former Network Rail chief exec and Olympics infrastructure tsar will succeed Andrew Adonis on a permanent basis

MPs get update on outsourced prisons contract as Cabinet Office reports public services are being maintained

Cabinet Office has reportedly been monitoring the firm since last September amid fears for future

Public administration select committee announces new inquiry into risks of outsourcing following collapse of contractor Carillion

David Lidington said it would not have been responsible for the government to bail out the firm that works on rail projects as well as managing prisons and providing school meals

Just five local authorities bid for cash from government infrastructure scheme designed to accelerate delivery of on-street power points