Transport

Manifesto pledges include resurrecting department for climate change and creating a chief secretary for sustainability role in HM Treasury

Transport for London and department need up to £650m more to complete late-running project

MPs applaud departmental drive to secure longer-term funding to tackle poor maintenance

Freight service will transport medical supplies with short shelf lives like radioisotopes and human organs

Transport secretary also reveals Northern franchise could be nationalised over contractor's poor performance

Announcement comes as HMRC confirms it has registered 95,000 businesses for simplified import procedures

Government won't fly in medicines in first batch of contracts awarded through £300m post-Brexit framework

Highways England, Network Rail and HS2 will be expected to justify performance-related-pay awards to ministers

Infrastructure and Projects Authority chief executive Nick Smallwood reflects on his first few months since joining government in August and his aims for the agency in 2020

Government says updated freight capacity procurement ahead of planned 31 October exit has avoided problems that led to settlement

Chancellor will say work to improve UK infrastructure ‘must start here and now’

Watchdog says disruption cannot be ruled out despite health secretary Matt Hancock's guarantee

Contract signed as DfT says disruption caused by "lack of trader readiness" could slow down imports of medicines via some ports

The government quickly became the UK’s fifth largest airline following the closure of Monarch Airlines. After winning the project delivery excellence award at the 2018 Civil Service Awards, Eirik Pitkethly told Civil Service World earlier this year how the Department for Transport did it

DfT says freight services will avoid Dover, Folkestone or Barking, where Brexit disruption is likely

All this week, CSW brings you a snapshot of progress on the Government Major Project Portfolio across four categories: military capability, ICT, infrastructure and construction, and transformation and service delivery. This section looks at some of Britain’s biggest building projects

All "non-compliant" vehicles without correct paperwork to be turned away at some ports, leak reveals

Warning comes as freight association head says there has been “too little debate" about longer-term post-Brexit border plans

Latest study also charts nosediving relations between government and parliament

Bernadette Kelly writes to NAO to provide departmental support for its inquiry into scheme as transport sec sets out cost hikes

Move follows anger over working conditions and overtime payments, says PCS

Ten-member team to report on case for controversial £55.7bn project by December

Providers told supplies could take up to five days to deliver – up from three days set out in February guidance

Virgin Trains, which has run the line since privatisation, loses out to new operator including Italian state-owned firm