Commercial

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