Finance

Authorities demand funding assurances and guidance on replacement materials

Jobcentre workers begin two-week strike over controversial closure plans

Union calls for Whitehall employers to seek out departed staff and pay additional settlements after successful High Court challenge to revised Civil Service Compensation Scheme

Annual report of the National Offender Management Service says additional overtime payments were needed to address staffing pressures

Paul Caldwell confirmed as permanent head of troubled Defra distribution arm

But Cabinet Office agrees to formal review of pay system for Senior Civil Service

Furious reaction over Philip Hammond's suggestion that staff enjoy “10% premium” over private sector counterparts

Agency’s annual report says it will miss its target for identifying and preventing losses in the tax credits system for a second year running

The chair of the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee finds the Donmar’s new musical Committee a fair and compelling portrayal of the hearing on the collapse of Kids Company 

Controversial element of so-called ‘Project Fear’ assumed no policy response to a leave vote, says NAO

Firms representing 40% of central government procurement spending agree to quicken payments to tackle £26bn backlog

Civil servants in Northern Ireland have been taking spending decisions for more than three months following deadlocked talks to create a new power-sharing executive

Public and Commercial Services union say ending the cap only for professions covered by pay review bodies would not be acceptable

Plan would allow pay review bodies to recommend increases above 1%, which means it might not apply across the civil service

Package will increase spending in areas including infrastructure and broadband as well as health funding

Civil service mainstay Prospect warns new work and pensions secretary not to raise retirement bar

Civil service union says new government must address ‘uncompetitive’ wages in Whitehall

FoI request reveals civil servants acknowledge “wrong call” in £8m cash announcement before local elections

Plan for hung parliament set out as polls show election race tightening

Think tank urges next government to focus on finding “long term solution” to health and care funding pressures

Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon says government will no longer plan on basis of maintaining current limit for public servants

Influential research institute says main parties’ policy proposals – including on public-sector pay – mask the real choices facing the nation and their consequences

UK Statistics Authority says NHS Improvement does not have to publish quarterly performance figures before general election

Analysis warns that continuation of 1% limit on pay increases will exacerbate public sector recruitment problems