Finance

Leaked document reveals top officials will conduct research into potential negative impact of DWP policy or operational practice

Departments asked to work with Treasury to identify potential savings before overall spending envelope is published later this year

Think tank calculates pay deals announced yesterday will cost around £800m a year

The stories you may have missed as the government released a host of statements on the last day before summer recess

Around a million public sector workers in line for pay increases of up to 3.5%

Bonus for prime minister’s Brexit adviser Oliver Robbins singled out for ire from Brexiteer MPs

Department points to better retention and doubled recruitment against backdrop of Grenfell tragedy and renewed housing focus

Public Accounts Committee says it has "little confidence" sweeping courts reforms can be delivered

CIPFA's policy manager Alan Bermingham takes a look at what the OBR's report on fiscal sustainability tell us about long term government spending – and the picture isn't pretty

Lord Nick Macpherson says select committees should be better resourced to conduct over-arching probes

Report details “scandalous” vacancy levels that see department pay £78m a year on empty units

MPs raise concerns about local authority finances and confusion in sector with DfE “rush” to convert schools

Permanent secretary Peter Schofield says department has “confidence in NAO” following row over Universal Credit

PACAC describes Manzoni and Treasury admissions on PFI as ‘shocking’

Department thinks ‘everything will work out in the end’ despite warning signs over councils’ financial health, say MPs

HMPPS delayed roll out of programme to reduce suicide, self-harm and violence levels because of ‘unanticipated’ spike in inmate numbers

Treasury chief secretary describes government bureaucracy as a creature ‘there is a temptation to feed after midnight’

ICO investigating tax agency after investigation by advocacy group Big Brother Watch 

Cipfa survey also finds three quarters of leaders are “more negative about Brexit now than last year”

Treasury insists new range is “not a cap” but unions deride “paltry” rise and failure to engage staff reps on decisions

Liz Truss to say that she believes there is still greater efficiencies to be made in existing government spending despite budget constraint since 2010

Civil servants think rank-and-file politicians need private briefings on Universal Credit implementation and other big changes 

Strategy launched to link up government actuaries, economists, engineers, operational researchers, scientists, social researchers, statisticians and data scientists

Tobias Elwood admits ‘shadow of Carillion hangs heavy over departments’ but insists 12-year contract is fully risk assessed