Department is contacting businesses to encourage early enrolment ahead of use becoming mandatory in August

Latest tranche of departmental cash takes total government spending on Brexit preparations to over £4bn.

Strategy aims to standardise household recycling and introduce weeky food waste collections

May postpones vote as a group of MPs says it is “disappointed” in the Treasury's forecasting of the economic impact of Brexit

Brexit select committee also seeks continued scrutiny role following mooted machinery of government changes

Union voices anger that Disclosure and Barring Service project will not be brought back in-house

Department for Transport names Allan Cook as replacement for high-speed rail role

House of Lords committee concludes that drive to tackle tax evasion “may have pressured staff to take a more aggressive approach”

Treasury needs new measures of its own effectiveness in order to drive long-term decision making in government, auditors say

House of Lords select committee says department is “not listening to small businesses”

Former Department for International Trade chief says there is no evidence of global deals being struck to rival current EU relationship

Public Accounts Committee urges government to up its game for future deals