Government Tax Profession

Chief executive of Whitehall’s central buying unit to move to Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply in July

Inquiry by MPs found immigration and border system already understaffed, with problems likely to be compounded by uncertainty over Brexit

Details of additional Brexit funding also reveal £1m transfer of funds following Oliver Robbins’s move to the Cabinet Office

Transport Select Committee says failure has wider implications for rail franchising 

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

Union accuses tax agency of 'throwing IT staff on the scrap heap' as it emerges there may not be room for them in new regional centres

Report highlights the need for system to be in place before the UK leaves the European Union in May 2019

Civil Service Commission eyes relaxation of competition rules if they are “unlikely to secure suitable appointees”

New appointments in the civil service, UK politics, and public affairs, via our colleagues at Dods People

MPs credit department with bringing programme “back from the brink” but warn that biggest challenges are yet to come

Call for changes to insolvency rules to make it easier for companies to recover from financial difficulties

Appointments watchdog publishes advice letter to Ameetpal Gill over contract with Oliver Letwin’s cross-party Brexit initiative

Treasury has handed £150m to official receiver for overseeing company’s liquidation, it has been revealed 

Damning report finds no evidence of department-driven workforce planning for sector since Gordon Brown was prime minister

David Jones said there was a “huge improvement across the board in the preparedness of departments” in the first year following the creation of DExEU

Tax agency will move 2,700 staff to second Scottish regional centre by 2021

Proposals indicate that the firm, which went out of business last month, expected to be able to get double its profit margins on some Whitehall contracts

MPs criticise slow progress on “byzantinely complicated task” but Brexit department insists capability is constantly under review

Head of the watchdog, Elizabeth Denham, says ICO will be expected to do “more of everything” as strict new data compliance law comes down the track

Department for Work and Pensions update lists offices earmarked for closure in rest of 2018

Crown Commercial Service has put together a £16m four-year framework with six suppliers offering “nudge theory” advice

Nationalising the service currently operated by Virgin Trains is one of two options for services after franchise “got its sums wrong”

Intervention by three former civil service chiefs comes after leading Brexiteers accused the Treasury off fiddling figures to maintain a close relationship with the EU

New appointments in the civil service, UK politics, and public affairs, via our colleagues at Dods People