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Gill Aitken announces departure as tax department flags up success in battling online fraudsters

Lesley Titcomb announces "difficult personal decision" after Carillion and BHS flak

MPs ask David Lidington to explore whether beefed-up powers and more resources are required as a matter of urgency

Disclosure and Barring Service modernisation programme is four years late and likely to cost £229m more than planned say MPs

Parliamentary report calls for better intelligence sharing between departments and stronger political guidance for FCO and HMRC

Changes to so-called IR35 rules for “off-payroll” workers boost coffers as ministers mull roll-out to private firms 

Two select committees back the government’s decision not to bail out outsourcing firm and let it fall into liquidation

NAO report says spad pushed for Steve Lamey to be hired despite civil servants’ objections

Department kicks off early-engagement exercise for new system of managing problems

Treasury Committee chair seeks assurances on tax agency’s “approach to international cooperation in the fight against economic crime”

Three months after the collapse of Carillion, organisation says outsourcing firms’ operating models require greater scrutiny

Public Accounts Committee tells ministry to up its game on keeping track of schools operators at risk of going broke

Information commissioner Elizabeth Denham confirms warrant has been served on UK company

MPs find that warnings of poor governance were not picked up for local enterprise partnership covering Greater Cambridge and Greater Peterborough

Independent report says Northamptonshire has irreparably dysfunctional organisational structure and should be split up

Official watchdog investigation also revealed former universities minister Jo Johnson interfered in recruitment process 

Independent review offers five recommendations to help department deliver aid more effectively

International development secretary Penny Mordaunt gives charities two-week deadline to confirm all concerns have been reported to Charity Commission

New unit set up in department to tackle safeguarding across the aid sector

New programme intended to help ensure government gets what it pays from suppliers, says CCS chief Malcolm Harrison

1,000 staff to transfer from collapsed outsourcing provider to new Whitehall-owned company to maintain work across 52 prisons

Committee to investigate after government “flatly rejected” proposals to beef up the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments

Think tank has called on the government to undertake “thorough review of the public sector’s relationship with contractors” amid sector’s woes.