Finance

Bonus for prime minister’s Brexit adviser Oliver Robbins singled out for ire from Brexiteer MPs

Department points to better retention and doubled recruitment against backdrop of Grenfell tragedy and renewed housing focus

Public Accounts Committee says it has "little confidence" sweeping courts reforms can be delivered

CIPFA's policy manager Alan Bermingham takes a look at what the OBR's report on fiscal sustainability tell us about long term government spending – and the picture isn't pretty

Lord Nick Macpherson says select committees should be better resourced to conduct over-arching probes

Report details “scandalous” vacancy levels that see department pay £78m a year on empty units

MPs raise concerns about local authority finances and confusion in sector with DfE “rush” to convert schools

Permanent secretary Peter Schofield says department has “confidence in NAO” following row over Universal Credit

PACAC describes Manzoni and Treasury admissions on PFI as ‘shocking’

Department thinks ‘everything will work out in the end’ despite warning signs over councils’ financial health, say MPs

HMPPS delayed roll out of programme to reduce suicide, self-harm and violence levels because of ‘unanticipated’ spike in inmate numbers

Treasury chief secretary describes government bureaucracy as a creature ‘there is a temptation to feed after midnight’

ICO investigating tax agency after investigation by advocacy group Big Brother Watch 

Cipfa survey also finds three quarters of leaders are “more negative about Brexit now than last year”

Treasury insists new range is “not a cap” but unions deride “paltry” rise and failure to engage staff reps on decisions

Liz Truss to say that she believes there is still greater efficiencies to be made in existing government spending despite budget constraint since 2010

Civil servants think rank-and-file politicians need private briefings on Universal Credit implementation and other big changes 

Strategy launched to link up government actuaries, economists, engineers, operational researchers, scientists, social researchers, statisticians and data scientists

Tobias Elwood admits ‘shadow of Carillion hangs heavy over departments’ but insists 12-year contract is fully risk assessed

Public Accounts Committee warns changes to rules for successor PF2 projects risk repeating past mistakes

David Bunting to leave Border Delivery Group to take on general counsel role on temporary basis

Chancellor Philip Hammond told Cabinet ministers health boost was “extraordinary” one-off outside usual spending review process

PCS trade union to ballot 150,000 civil servants over next five weeks and expects “overwhelming ‘Yes’ vote”

Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency leaves Westminster for Canary Wharf