Fraud, Error Debt & Grants

Online verification service passes service assessment, as Janet Hughes vows to listen and learn as scheme is introduced across departments

Report by MPs on the justice committee warns that prison safety "has deteriorated further and continues to do so"

Just-published guide from the public spending watchdog says government needs sustained effort to bring commercial and contracting work up to scratch

Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee chair Bernard Jenkin says legislation may be needed to make non-executive directors brought into government feel less disposable

Home Office chief points out that enforcement rate for confiscation orders is increasing, even as overall debt pile grows, while Derbyshire police chief Mick Creedon points the finger at legacy of “inflated” targets

The Public Accounts Committee wants the most senior civil servants to play a greater role in approving major projects, and to publish their assessments of whether policies offer value for money

PAC urges stronger cross-government effort to clamp down on fines incurred for errors in the way government spends EU funds

Cabinet Office minister says distributed ledgers could offer a "better way" of monitoring the distribution of government cash

Former chief of defence materiel, who left the civil service at the end of 2015, to carry out progress review for the MoD on equipment buying

Open data organisation co-founded by Sir Tim Berners-Lee says proposed model for the privately-owned Land Registry "appears very similar to historic examples of long-term outsourcing deals and risks repeating the same mistakes"

Online payments firm Stripe – which handles payments for Kickstarter – among those chosen in revamped approach to government merchant services

Mismatch between school year used by academies and DfE's own accounting period means parliament cannot properly hold the department to account, says the NAO