Commercial

BEIS says funding will also extend opening hours and protect rural branches

NAO investigates why department was forced to redraw contracts and increase projected payments to CRCs by £342m

FCO teams up with DFID and British Council to tender for four-year framework to provide networking to 550 sites in the UK and throughout the world

Cabinet Office Single Departmental Plan also reveals proposals for a new shared services strategy as part of moves to boost commercial capability

Watchdog MP Meg Hillier slams two-year time-lag that has seen millions of pounds spent on services from an "inadequate" provider

Whitehall’s chief executive says thousands of civil servants have already been moved into Brexit roles, with around a quarter coming from outside government

Letter from Cabinet Office minister Damian Green says government will consider a cap-busting increase “in return for improvements to public sector productivity”

NAO report identifies staffing gaps in five departments and high rate of turnover in DExEU

Crown Commercial Service gathering information to ensure typically busy period is negotiated smoothly

Department claims that giving French firm a contract extension – without competitive process – is ‘only viable route’ to completing decoupling process

MPs accuse DExEU of "contempt" after sectoral analysis handed to Brexit committee was stripped of market-sensitive information

Report by MPs concluded that departments did not show ministers risks of different possible funding schemes for Hinckley Point C nuclear scheme

GLD is hiring lawyers from the north of England to work in new regional centre

Government stats watchdog reverses 2015 decision to classify sector as part of the public sector after deregulation legislation

Mike Parsons takes top role at Government Property Unit as it prepares to launch Government Property Agency

Senior officials defend rationale for new GPS tags but admit major failings of project now delayed by more than five years 

Document from Government Commercial Function offers advice on how to best to decouple from monolithic contracts

HMRC staff reviewed 73,000 stopped or amended tax-credit claims and closed a further 181,000 cases after meltdown of outsourced fraud-and-error checking contract

Tax department chief reveals HMRC has requested but not received more details on the Paradise Papers document leak on offshore investment

Figures show that spending with smaller firms fell for over half of Whitehall departments that reported figures

Reform think tank argues for greater devolution of powers to buy healthcare, employment, skills and offender management services

Number of parts moved between Navy vessels has increased by 50% in five years say auditors

National Audit Office warns shortage of key commercial and cost assurance experts could jeopardise £1.7bn savings target from non-competitive contracts