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Treasury Committee chair seeks assurances on tax agency’s “approach to international cooperation in the fight against economic crime”

Three months after the collapse of Carillion, organisation says outsourcing firms’ operating models require greater scrutiny

Public Accounts Committee tells ministry to up its game on keeping track of schools operators at risk of going broke

Information commissioner Elizabeth Denham confirms warrant has been served on UK company

MPs find that warnings of poor governance were not picked up for local enterprise partnership covering Greater Cambridge and Greater Peterborough

Independent report says Northamptonshire has irreparably dysfunctional organisational structure and should be split up

Official watchdog investigation also revealed former universities minister Jo Johnson interfered in recruitment process 

Independent review offers five recommendations to help department deliver aid more effectively

International development secretary Penny Mordaunt gives charities two-week deadline to confirm all concerns have been reported to Charity Commission

New unit set up in department to tackle safeguarding across the aid sector

New programme intended to help ensure government gets what it pays from suppliers, says CCS chief Malcolm Harrison

1,000 staff to transfer from collapsed outsourcing provider to new Whitehall-owned company to maintain work across 52 prisons

Committee to investigate after government “flatly rejected” proposals to beef up the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments

Think tank has called on the government to undertake “thorough review of the public sector’s relationship with contractors” amid sector’s woes.

Cabinet Office has reportedly been monitoring the firm since last September amid fears for future

Public administration select committee announces new inquiry into risks of outsourcing following collapse of contractor Carillion

David Lidington said it would not have been responsible for the government to bail out the firm that works on rail projects as well as managing prisons and providing school meals

PCS union accuses department of casualising the workforce as proposal follows years of staffing cuts

Theresa May took second opinion from Sir Alex Allen before sacking her closest Cabinet ally

MPs slam department’s weak oversight after company made unauthorised redundancy payouts totalling £1.76m

Think tank report on public inquiries finds lack of formal guidance, procedures and scrutiny measures

Government response to Public Accounts Committee report also confirms consultation plan for new regime to tackle unpaid VAT by online marketplaces

Post-implementation evaluation admits many employers see new system as a burden