Former chief of defence materiel, who left the civil service at the end of 2015, to carry out progress review for the MoD on equipment buying

Mismatch between school year used by academies and DfE's own accounting period means parliament cannot properly hold the department to account, says the NAO

Government's top IT official taking on newly-created role of national technology adviser

Social enterprise takes over reins of public sector development programme as government ends centrally-funded support

Mystery Shopper report highlights challenges of encouraging suppliers to form partnerships to bid for government contracts

John Manthorpe accuses government of wanting to "sell the Land Registry for a quick price to reduce the deficit"

Move designed to allow public sector buyers to complete existing procurements before the switch

Decade-long IT contract – underpinning £500bn in tax revenue – to come to an early end

Department must to more to challenge contractors, say MPs, as too many health and disability assessments do not meet acceptable standards despite an increase in the cost per assessment

Infrastructure and Projects Authority says strong public sector involvement coupled with move away from traditional government structures has been a important factor in the success of capital projects like London 2012 and Crossrail

Government Outcomes Lab being set up in partnership with Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government​ in a bid to assess the impact of outcome-based commissioning ​schemes

PAC says "encouraging signs of change" on the commercial front – but urges Cabinet Office to do more to chase up departments who are failing to make progress