Economy

Department has “no real understanding” of how well £12bn of pump-priming cash is being used, MPs warn

Problems affected ‘a very small number’ of the 350,000 businesses now signed up for digital platform, according to perm sec

Public Accounts Committee says department lacks detailed implementation plan for delivering policy

£940,000 bill does not include VAT or cost of departmental officials' time

After working on some of the first “green investment” schemes in the 1990s, Emma Howard Boyd has relished the chance to get closer to the action as chair of the Environment Agency. But, she tells Mark Smulian, she’s still keeping a keen eye on the money, as the agency strives to protect communities and businesses as well as people and plants

Department would draw up plans for multi-billion pound "shared prosperity fund", Stewart says

Department’s chief digital information officer tells Civil Service World about transforming working practices and service delivery at the UK tax authority, and why improving diversity starts with leaders who are self-aware

Developer hands over state-of-the-art base for HMRC and Office of the Advocate General

Does it really matter who represents your department at stakeholder meetings – or whether you’ve done a secondment outside Whitehall? Yes, says insider-turned-outsider John Dowie, who moved to work for First Bus after a 27-year civil service career. Here, sharing his observations of government from the other side, he explains why

£22bn scheme has exposed the government to significant risk and has tied up significant public financial capacity says NAO

Speaking at a think-tank event, Lord Macpherson also offered thoughts on the economy to incoming prime minister, while Treasury Select Committee chair said a full leadership contest is needed “so the maddest ideas perhaps don’t make it to asking for official civil service advice”. 

Former diplomat Kumar Iyer becomes department’s first BAME board member