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Chancellor says it would be "odd" to expect all departments to see funding rise, despite his claim that austerity is ending

Setting out her vision for the upcoming Spending Review, Truss said the Treasury would “prioritise ruthlessly”

Revised public value framework will underline Spending Review focus on value for money, Hammond said in his Spring Statement

Unions cry foul over delay to pensions boost but Truss says Court of Appeal decision could have £4bn annual impact 

The prime minister admitted the NHS funding boost announced last year would mean “less room for manoeuvre” in other areas of public spending.

Philip Hammond heralded an end to austerity, but with growing pressures set to squeeze services further, his Budget can’t meet the public’s expectations

The chancellor laid out the projections for wage growth across the country on Monday, but didn’t mention civil service pay increases are below inflation. He could change this

More questions than answers for local government and devolution in a Budget that prioritised paving over short-term cracks rather than addressing long-term challenges, says Charlotte Morgan, a policy researcher at New Local Government Network

Chancellor says that the funding mechanism does not provide value for money but confirms half of government infrastructure plan will be privately funded

Chancellor also announces additional funding for Universal Credit after growing pressure 

'If the chancellor wants to keep his excellent civil service, he cannot keep this restraint on public sector pay'

Tax agency pays almost a quarter of Whitehall’s total pay bill for trade union “facility time”

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

Chancellor says if public finance improvement continues he could increase public spending from 2020

Think tank says chancellor will trumpet lower annual borrowing but report a much bigger deficit than predicted two years ago

The plans announced in the 2017 Budget may help to tackle Britain’s housing shortage in the long term. But in the short term, the extension of Help to Buy and the abolition of stamp duty for first-time buyers is good politics but poor policy.

Report suggests Chancellor Philip Hammond is not planning to offer cash to fund a pay rise

Public sector areas with retention issues, such as senior civil servants, expected to be among first to get a pay rise

Plan would allow pay review bodies to recommend increases above 1%, which means it might not apply across the civil service

Civil service union said there is “an unarguable case” to lift restrictions after the Conservatives lost their majority at the election

Gavin Barwell, Theresa May's new chief of staff, identified austerity and Brexit as key factors behind the Conservatives' general election losses

Funding for Irish farmers and a softer approach to Brexit are understood to be among the DUP’s requests in return for supporting the minority Conservative government, as other leaders raise concerns about content of a Conservative-DUP deal

Former head of the civil service's review for Labour says Treasury must "up its game" on financial expertise; do more to support regional growth; and stop "second guessing" departments