Finance

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