Finance

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

Public Accounts Committee warns changes to rules for successor PF2 projects risk repeating past mistakes

David Bunting to leave Border Delivery Group to take on general counsel role on temporary basis

Chancellor Philip Hammond told Cabinet ministers health boost was “extraordinary” one-off outside usual spending review process

PCS trade union to ballot 150,000 civil servants over next five weeks and expects “overwhelming ‘Yes’ vote”

Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency leaves Westminster for Canary Wharf

Department criticised by Public Accounts Committee for failures to improve careers advice and social mobility

Ex-Labour health minister Ara Darzi also proposes creation of "single NHS headquarters" to report to Department of Health and Social Care 

Figures revealed in parliamentary answers show number and length of contracts for temporary workers in some departments

PCS union calls for “urgent solution” from DWP that will see pay increases implemented from July for staff not subject to Treasury guidance

Select committee chairs set out fears for the future in letter to prime minister Theresa May

Council chief execs also offered cap-busting rise, bagging same 2% deal offered to rank-and-file staff

More than 200 former staff left out of pocket via Voluntary Exit Scheme

Gill Aitken announces departure as tax department flags up success in battling online fraudsters