Economics

Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union says work that redeployed HMRC staff normally do "will be building up" as they focus on Concentrix tax credit queries

George Osborne's successor at the Treasury says his fiscal approach will involve "recognising the need for investment"

The Institute for Fiscal Studies, the Institute for Government, and the Chartered Institute of Taxation say the UK's tax system suffers from "too little sense of direction, consultation or evaluation"

Tax authority defends decision to axe tax credits contract as 150 temporary staff face last day at work

Civil service chief executive says final, revised offer to trade unions on redundancy pay cuts will "simplify the exit process, while treating our employees respectfully and fairly"

As the Cabinet Office makes its final offer to unions on planned reform of the Civil Service Compensation Scheme, CSW's Matt Foster takes a detailed look at the key changes to redundancy terms

Full details and reaction from the PCS, FDA and Prospect Unions as the Cabinet Office makes its final offer on fresh reform of the Civil Service Compensation Scheme

HMRC may need to delay digital tax plans, Treasury committee chair Andrew Tyrie tells new chancellor Philip Hammond

National Audit Office finds 9,000 data breaches recorded by the 17 biggest government departments in last year – and says Cabinet Office must do more to help departments clamp down on loss and theft

The outsourcing firm says HMRC's decision – which comes amid pressure from MPs over wrongly halted tax credits – is an attack on its "professional credibility"

Civil service network seeks to build pan-Whitehall expertise in areas such as payment-by results and agent-based modelling

PCS union says plan to move organisation employing more than 4,000 civil servants into the private sector appears to have been "quietly dropped" after it fails to appear in the new Neighbourhood Planning Bill

New Cabinet Office minister argues that the civil service has "already risen to the challenge" of Brexit as Labour says now is not the time to be "laying off civil servants and slashing budgets"

Martin Donnelly (pictured) will lead the new Department for International Trade for a transitional period, while former DECC perm sec Alex Chisholm takes on the expanded business department

Civil service unions hit out as new CSW analysis shows that many outgoing Number 10 advisers had substantial year-on-year pay rises, as well as enhanced redundancy terms and honours​

Treasury committee chair Andrew Tyrie wants a return to publishing Treasury analysis that shows how policies will impact household incomes

The UK ran a surplus of just £1bn last month – £200m lower than July 2015

Tax experts and industry bodies urge rethink on plans to make public sector bodies, not contractors themselves, responsible for applying rules known as “IR35”

More than 40 staff unable to relocate or who turned down voluntary exit could be made redundant under first round of estate downsizing

2,500 staff set to relocate to town-centre office block from summer 2017

Caroline Normand set to join Which?, while other moves see the government name Lowell Goddard’s abuse inquiry replacement and Charlie Bean lined up for the Budget Responsibility Committee

MPs call on Department for Communities and Local Government, Department for Work and Pensions and Department for Education to develop new inclusion programmes particularly targeting women

Policy Exchange proposes “turbo charged” devolution of Whitehall functions to councils and city regions over the next five years

The big leadership changes in government digital seem like a triumph for those who believe a government organised along Victorian lines is still fit for fixing today’s problems, argues former senior civil servant Andrew Greenway