Finance

Around a million public sector workers in line for pay increases of up to 3.5%

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