Finance

Unionised civil servants to lose right to automatic payroll deduction of fees - known as “check-off” - under plans set out by Cabinet Office minister Matt Hancock

Charity has reportedly told the government it will close in spite of latest £3m Cabinet Office grant

Civil service chief executive talks up Single Departmental Plans, saying they will offer "single, clear roadmap" for managing resources ahead of the Spending Review

Treasury says spending review - set for November 25 - will be a chance to "review the role of government"

Push for £20bn of departmental cuts begins today - with spending review conclusions to be set out on November 25

BIS and DfE urged to take "strategic" action over struggling colleges, while separate report confirms that the Skills Funding Agency's accounts have been qualified

Department for Work and Pensions accounts qualified again as NAO says fraud and error in the benefits system "remains unacceptably high"

Waheed Nazir – director of planning and regeneration and chief planning officer at Birmingham City Council​ – gives an outside perspective of the civil service, and says Whitehall is improving the way it works with local partners

Cabinet secretary stresses that spending review will allow departments to make "considered decisions" on "size and shape of their workforces"

Former head of the government finance profession handed CIPFA medal for "outstanding" public service

Union calls on Scots finance minister John Swinney to reject Chancellor's one per cent public sector payrise cap north of the border

Chancellor uses first Conservative-only Budget to announce four more years of public sector pay restraint