Finance

Party’s spending pledge on pay for public servants intended to “undo the damage caused” by pay cap, says Jeremy Corbyn

Manifesto pledges include resurrecting department for climate change and creating a chief secretary for sustainability role in HM Treasury

Tax agency offers tips to avoid scams ahead of 31 January deadline

Una O’Brien urges public to hold politicians to account for repeated failings in next month’s election

The head of the National Audit Office has set out his priorities for the role in an exclusive interview with The Civil Service World Podcast

Transport for London and department need up to £650m more to complete late-running project

Independent assessment will look at department’s quality management approach after longstanding double-counting issue

Cabinet Office says pre-election guidance applies to all civil servants and NDPB staff

Shadow chancellor announces resurrection of government regional offices and a Treasury unit to oversee new Social Transformation Fund to be based outside the capital

Analysis of policies drawn up as part of policy planning, government confirms

FDA and Prospect unions criticise minister's call for pay recommendations to be "affordable"

Letter to Senior Salaries Review Body also confirms impact of tax on pension contributions by top officials is under review

NI pay offer "totally unacceptable" in continuing absence of a functioning executive, NIPSA says

Announcement comes after Harra vows to overhaul pay at the tax authority

Administrator sheds light on the scale of overpayments to pensioners first revealed by CSW this summer

MPs applaud departmental drive to secure longer-term funding to tackle poor maintenance

Union says move is “height of hypocrisy” for ministers who legislated to make industrial action more difficult

Interim perm sec Jim Harra tells MPs he believes the agency’s debt recovery approach is “reasonable”.

Union says there is a need for increased funding across government to resolve "systemic" pay problems

NAO finds £32.7m of public spending so far, but BEIS says full calculation of costs to back shale gas extraction would not yet be "meaningful"

Think tank concludes that Conservative spending plans are closer to Labour’s 2017 election pledges than their own proposals

Highways England, Network Rail and HS2 will be expected to justify performance-related-pay awards to ministers

Harra takes over from Sir Jon Thompson, who has moved to the Financial Reporting Council

Stats watchdog says department has failed to answer questions about how the pledge will be funded