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

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

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

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

Data shows scale of challenge to remove single use plastics from across Whitehall

Shadow body overseeing hubs programme and New Property Model expected to go live last year

Labour warns of another outsourcing crisis after third major government contractor issues profit warning

1,000 staff to transfer from collapsed outsourcing provider to new Whitehall-owned company to maintain work across 52 prisons

Debate on how to deliver public services hears that the era of choice and competition may be coming to an end

Committee to investigate after government “flatly rejected” proposals to beef up the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments

Plan also proposes “radically” reducing pay differentials between director general roles across departments, but any pay increase above the 1% cap in 2018-19 will need to be paid for by productivity improvements

Perm sec Richard Heaton admitted to being “startled and stunned” by the over-ambitious scheme