Finance

Shadow chancellor announces resurrection of government regional offices and a Treasury unit to oversee new Social Transformation Fund to be based outside the capital

Analysis of policies drawn up as part of policy planning, government confirms

FDA and Prospect unions criticise minister's call for pay recommendations to be "affordable"

Letter to Senior Salaries Review Body also confirms impact of tax on pension contributions by top officials is under review

NI pay offer "totally unacceptable" in continuing absence of a functioning executive, NIPSA says

Announcement comes after Harra vows to overhaul pay at the tax authority

Administrator sheds light on the scale of overpayments to pensioners first revealed by CSW this summer

MPs applaud departmental drive to secure longer-term funding to tackle poor maintenance

Union says move is “height of hypocrisy” for ministers who legislated to make industrial action more difficult

Interim perm sec Jim Harra tells MPs he believes the agency’s debt recovery approach is “reasonable”.

Union says there is a need for increased funding across government to resolve "systemic" pay problems

NAO finds £32.7m of public spending so far, but BEIS says full calculation of costs to back shale gas extraction would not yet be "meaningful"