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Tax authority's chief exec tells MPs that Whitehall has clear lessons to learn from failings with outsourced tax credit checking deal

Transport permanent secretary Philip Rutnam's request for a ministerial direction over funding guarantees for the controversial project to build a new bridge over the Thames brings the total number of directions since last May to seven - more than twice the number under the coalition government

Peter Lawson and Samantha Ulyatt to take up post in the coming weeks

Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union says work that redeployed HMRC staff normally do "will be building up" as they focus on Concentrix tax credit queries

Interim chief stepping up to permanent role, as the agency in charge of government procurement oversees a shift in its funding model

Report commissioned by the Public Accounts Committee finds no repeat of outsourcing firm’s failings with GP data service

Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs committee chairman says opening up civil service recruitment to outsiders is welcome, but a "second-best objective" when organisation should be building its own capability

McKibbin says it has been "an honour and a privilege" to lead the separate Northern Ireland Civil Service since 2011

PCS union says plan to move organisation employing more than 4,000 civil servants into the private sector appears to have been "quietly dropped" after it fails to appear in the new Neighbourhood Planning Bill

Council chiefs urge greater say in DWP's replacement for the Work Programme

Confidence, and a more commercial attitude towards project delivery, leads to better outcomes, FCO Services chief executive Danny Payne tells CSW

The Land Registry "must remain an essential arm of the state", says Conservative committee chair Bernard Jenkin, amid doubts over whether the government's privatisation plans will go ahead