Finance

Lord Kerslake, former head of the civil service, says it is "highly doubtful" government can secure like-for-like replacement of housing association properties sold off under new scheme

No headcount changes under chancellor's plan to merge Shareholder Executive (ShEx) and UK Financial Investments (UKFI) into one body overseeing privatisations

Higher Education Policy Institute sounds alarm on un-recouped student loans

Thirty three companies take the lion’s share of central government procurement spending, between them receiving roughly £10bn of Whitehall money each year. But who are they? Do they truly understand the public sector? And do civil servants trust them? Rebecca Sims-Robinson crunches the numbers.

Lord Kerslake tells the Financial Times pressure on other budgets could be made "more acute" by protection of defence spending

Labour to set out election manifesto as shadow chancellor Ed Balls vows 'no compromise' with SNP over deficit

Kate Collyer appointed to the new role of deputy chief economic adviser at the Competition and Markets Authority

David Cameron gave his personal assurance that defence spending would rise from 2015, according to Liam Fox’s former special adviser. 

Former NAO director Mark Babington joins Financial Reporting Council 

Nicholas Macpherson says economic and financial functions should both remain in the Treasury

Chancellor George Osborne has re-appointed two external members of the Bank of England’s finance committee

Michael Izza, chief executive of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW), gives an outside perspective of the civil service