Finance

MPs point to low takeup and inadequate funding and warn ministers do not know whether the anticipated productivity boost will actually happen

David Sterling tells inquiry his workforce cannot be expected to deliver beyond their resources and skills sets as power vacuum continues

Majority of magistrate’s and county courts sold since 2010 went to property developers, followed by private owners and local authorities

Watchdog MPs doubt department’s ability to meet £1.7bn savings target from new regulations

Department forced to check 300,000 claims after tribunal ruling on flaws in employment and support allowance

Cabinet Office gives unions six weeks to table compo package to rival its own update proposals

Independent report says Northamptonshire has irreparably dysfunctional organisational structure and should be split up

Unprecedented report makes demands of six departments and calls for better oversight to ‘prevent policy from working at cross-purposes’

Possible change criticised by former Treasury perm sec Nick Macpherson as “trashing history”

Chancellor says if public finance improvement continues he could increase public spending from 2020

Think tank says chancellor will trumpet lower annual borrowing but report a much bigger deficit than predicted two years ago

Theresa May announces new analysis intended to keep the UK as a world leader in social investment