Economics

Appointments watchdog publishes advice letter to Ameetpal Gill over contract with Oliver Letwin’s cross-party Brexit initiative

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

Vote by parliament to release analysis comes after it was leaked to media

Lombardelli will take up post in April following departure of Sir David Ramsden

PCS vows to fight latest proposals for Civil Service Compensation Scheme and trumpets £50k payouts after High Court victory

PCS calls for pause in programme and more resources for HMRC as it plans for post-Brexit customs landscape

Former Network Rail chief exec and Olympics infrastructure tsar will succeed Andrew Adonis on a permanent basis

MPs get update on outsourced prisons contract as Cabinet Office reports public services are being maintained

Public administration select committee announces new inquiry into risks of outsourcing following collapse of contractor Carillion

Watchdog says department could have to pay nation’s least punctual train operator tens of millions of pounds a year because of changes to its contract requirements

Auditor general Amyas Morse confirms scrutiny plans following request from Treasury committee chair Nicky Morgan

Brexit department seeks 35 policy leads and 25 senior advisers on up to £64.5k

Transparency data reveals pay bands and appointing ministers for Whitehall’s 88 spads

Heywood and Manzoni salary bands remain unchanged from last year, but the number of government staff earning £150,000 or more rises 13%

Union berates department for being forced into the move to comply with National Living Wage

Watchdog MP Meg Hillier slams two-year time-lag that has seen millions of pounds spent on services from an "inadequate" provider

Auditor review of Green Investment Bank privatisation concludes efforts to ensure firm’s liabilities were off the public sector balance sheet could have reduced sale price

Government response to Public Accounts Committee report also confirms consultation plan for new regime to tackle unpaid VAT by online marketplaces

Post-implementation evaluation admits many employers see new system as a burden

Think-tank analysis identifies concessions on residency rights, a £39bn bill on the ‘never-never’, and hand-tying assurances on Northern Ireland in draft agreement

 Public Accounts Committee criticises departments' “business as usual” assumption for 2019 and berates pace of pan-Whitehall Border Planning Group 

Tax agency has signed a 25-year lease on London office for 3,800 staff

DExEU perm sec insists analysis has “huge value” despite criticism that it does not amount to full impact assessments

Union’s national executive agrees to prepare for statutory strike ballot