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    Keep up-to-date with the latest Finance news from Civil Service World
    Spring Budget: Government launches new savings tracker amid departmental spending squeeze
    15 Mar Finance

    Spring Budget: Government launches new savings tracker amid departmental spending squeeze

    IFS warns defence and childcare boosts could mean “very tough time for other spending areas”
    by Tevye Markson
    Spring Budget defence and childcare boosts 'mean spending cuts elsewhere'
    16 Mar Finance
    Spring Budget defence and childcare boosts 'mean spending cuts elsewhere'
    DLUHC’s local-audit backlog issues ‘could get worse’, watchdog warns
    16 Mar Finance
    DLUHC’s local-audit backlog issues ‘could get worse’, watchdog warns
    High Court rejects challenge to Civil Service Pension Scheme costs
    15 Mar Finance
    High Court rejects challenge to Civil Service Pension Scheme costs
    Arrivals, moves and departures, Oct 2012
    03 Oct 2012 Finance
    Arrivals, moves and departures, Oct 2012

    The new head of the Welsh Civil Service, Derek Jones, will take up his position on 8 October after a four year hiatus from the civil service. He replaces Dame Gillian Morgan, who retired in August. Jones was the director of business and partnerships at Cardiff University, and prior to this role he spent 30 years as a civil servant, including as a senior director.


    24 NHS trusts face financial difficulties
    12 Sep 2012 Finance
    24 NHS trusts face financial difficulties

    Eleven NHS foundation trusts are in financial difficulty, and a further 13 are at risk of getting into difficulty, David Bennett, the chief executive of the NHS regulator Monitor, told the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) yesterday.


    Fraud rife at DWP contractors A4e and Working Links, whistleblowing auditor tells PAC
    30 May 2012 Finance
    Fraud rife at DWP contractors A4e and Working Links, whistleblowing auditor tells PAC

    Fraud is widespread at government contractors A4e and Working Links, their former head of audit, Eddie Hutchinson, has said.


    Treasury officials ‘threatening to ignore tribunal’, says Owen lawyer
    30 May 2012 Finance
    Treasury officials ‘threatening to ignore tribunal’, says Owen lawyer

    A solicitor representing David Owen, a civil servant suing the Treasury for unfair dismissal, has said that officials are threatening to ignore the judge’s decision should he rule in Owen’s favour.


    30 May 2012 Finance
    IfG: Improve use of depts’ data
    Departments told to identify five per cent contingency funds
    25 Apr 2012 Finance
    Departments told to identify five per cent contingency funds

    All departments must identify five per cent of their budgets that they could cut if they require contingency funding, chief secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander said in a speech to the Institute for Fiscal Studies this week.


    25 Apr 2012 Finance
    PASC: ‘Think long-term’

    Departments must think of the long-term when setting out budgets as part of a Spending Review, the Public Administration Select Committee (PASC) has said in a report published yesterday.


    Hodge: ‘HMT, take charge’
    25 Apr 2012 Finance
    Hodge: ‘HMT, take charge’

    The Treasury must take ownership of the new system of accountability that will develop as a result of public service reforms, the Public Accounts Committee has said.


    Budget sets out 2015-17 cuts
    28 Mar 2012 Finance
    Budget sets out 2015-17 cuts

    Departmental expenditure limits (DEL) will need to fall by 3.8 per cent per year in the first two years of the next Parliament – even more than the current annual cuts of 2.3 per cent – unless there are deeper cuts to annual managed expenditure (AME) budgets, chancellor George Osborne said in his Budget last week.


    07 Mar 2012 Finance
    Balls: ‘Free Bank boosted Treasury’

    Shadow chancellor Ed Balls said at Queen Mary University last week that granting the Bank of England independence in 1997 “increased the power of the Treasury, because it allowed the Treasury to say: ‘Well, I see you want to make that decision, prime minister, and I can see why you’d want to do that, but I’m not sure the independent Bank of England will wear it.”


    74% of SCS oppose clawback of fraud and error savings
    22 Feb 2012 Finance
    74% of SCS oppose clawback of fraud and error savings

    A poll by CSW, carried out in partnership with analytics company SAS, has found that 74 per cent of senior civil servants and 73 per cent of all civil servants believe that departments and agencies would be better incentivised to tackle fraud and error if they were allowed to keep some of the savings.


    Exclusive: Committee chairs criticise departmental report responses
    22 Feb 2012 Finance
    Exclusive: Committee chairs criticise departmental report responses

    Departmental select committee chairs have provided mixed reviews of the departments they scrutinise for a Civil Service World Special Report, which has found that 40 per cent of them are dissatisfied with departments’ responses to their reports.


    Hodge welcomes accounts, but NAO concerned on efficiency drive
    08 Feb 2012 Finance
    Hodge welcomes accounts, but NAO concerned on efficiency drive

    Public Accounts Committee (PAC) chair Margaret Hodge yesterday welcomed the publication of the Whole of Government Accounts (WGA), calling them a “major step forward in improving transparency and accountability.”


    Douglas: finance central to reform plans
    08 Feb 2012 Finance
    Douglas: finance central to reform plans

    Finance skills should be central to the civil service reforms now being developed by head of the civil service Sir Bob Kerslake, the head of the government finance profession has said. Speaking in a CSW interview, Department of Health finance chief Richard Douglas said: “I’m hoping and expecting that Bob Kerslake will take [finance skills] forward as a key plank of civil service reform.”


    NAO chief raises data quality worries
    08 Feb 2012 Finance
    NAO chief raises data quality worries

    National Audit Office chief Amyas Morse has raised concerns about the quality of data departments will receive under new systems designed to ensure accountability in devolved service provision.


    Fraud strategy makes spend-recovery audits compulsory
    08 Feb 2012 Finance
    Fraud strategy makes spend-recovery audits compulsory

    All departments, agencies and non-departmental bodies will have to commission private companies to conduct ‘spend-recovery’ accounts in search of fraudulent or mistaken payments, Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude announced on Monday at the launch of the government’s Fraud and Error Strategy.


    Douglas: finance central to reform plans
    08 Feb 2012 Finance
    Douglas: finance central to reform plans
    Senior consultants under scrutiny for tax arrangements
    07 Feb 2012 Finance
    Senior consultants under scrutiny for tax arrangements

    Treasury chief secretary Danny Alexander has ordered a review into the salary arrangements for “all senior consultancy appointments” after the revelation Ed Lester, chief executive at the Student Loans Company (SLC), was paid through a consultancy firm in order to reduce tax on his salary package.


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