Budget 2025: Departments told to find extra £4.9bn in efficiencies
26 Nov Finance

Budget 2025: Departments told to find extra £4.9bn in efficiencies

New target follows near-£14bn efficiencies committed to for SR25 period
by Tevye Markson
Union sounds alarm on Valuation Office Agency ‘integration’ with HMRC
28 Nov Finance
Union sounds alarm on Valuation Office Agency ‘integration’ with HMRC
Budget 2025: Overhauled spending control and accountability framework to 'drive better value for money'
26 Nov Finance
Budget 2025: Overhauled spending control and accountability framework to 'drive better value for money'
Budget 2025: Treasury announces £1bn 'assets efficiency target'
26 Nov Finance
Budget 2025: Treasury announces £1bn 'assets efficiency target'
Don't blame civil servants for Northern Ireland overspend, union says
12 Feb Finance
Don't blame civil servants for Northern Ireland overspend, union says
Politicians urged not to "scapegoat" civil servants after MLA blasts "scale of financial mismanagement" in the NICS
Home Office spent nearly £100m on failed asylum accommodation
05 Feb Finance
Home Office spent nearly £100m on failed asylum accommodation
Report into acquisition of HMP Northeye site urges Home Office to address its "dysfunctional" culture around commercial decisions
Ignoring whistleblowers costs government hundreds of millions of pounds, analysis finds
04 Feb Finance
Ignoring whistleblowers costs government hundreds of millions of pounds, analysis finds
Whistleblowing charity Protect calls for urgent reform after examining Carillion, Horizon and Lucy Letby scandals
New fiscal framework becomes law as MPs back Charter for Budget Responsibility
30 Jan Finance
New fiscal framework becomes law as MPs back Charter for Budget Responsibility
MPs approve charter designed to create a "stable and predictable fiscal policy environment"
Reeves: Green book refresh will ‘deliver fair hearing' for all regions
29 Jan Finance
Reeves: Green book refresh will ‘deliver fair hearing' for all regions
Green Book update to report back in June Spending review
Treasury sets out scope of new loan charge review
28 Jan Finance
Treasury sets out scope of new loan charge review
Terms of reference for second review of HMRC's loan charge scheme published
Treasury perm sec predicts NAO will reject next Whole of Government Accounts
24 Jan Finance
Treasury perm sec predicts NAO will reject next Whole of Government Accounts
Missing data likely to mean 2023-24 figures will fail to achieve sign-off, just like 2022-23 accounts
Office for Value for Money 'understaffed, poorly defined' and at risk of duplicating work, MPs say
21 Jan Finance
Office for Value for Money 'understaffed, poorly defined' and at risk of duplicating work, MPs say
Treasury Committee says OVfM must publish more information on its plans and how it will interact with other government organisations
MPs question HMRC's status as a non-ministerial department
20 Jan Finance
MPs question HMRC's status as a non-ministerial department
Minister James Murray insists he wants tax agency to "take more risks" and get out of its "comfort zone"
FCDO granted permission to recruit 200 extra development staff
08 Jan Finance
FCDO granted permission to recruit 200 extra development staff
Recruitment will need to be funded through ODA, perm sec says
Healey updates MPs on MoD's £6bn housing buyback
07 Jan Finance
Healey updates MPs on MoD's £6bn housing buyback
Plans will reverse "notorious" 1990s privatisation of homes for armed services personnel
Reeves rapped for failing to show working behind 0.5% aid target
06 Jan Finance
Reeves rapped for failing to show working behind 0.5% aid target
International Development Committee says chancellor's response to its questions “raises more questions than it answers”