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

 Public Accounts Committee criticises departments' “business as usual” assumption for 2019 and berates pace of pan-Whitehall Border Planning Group 

Tax agency has signed a 25-year lease on London office for 3,800 staff

DExEU perm sec insists analysis has “huge value” despite criticism that it does not amount to full impact assessments

Treasury guidance also expands role for ministers in requests for direction from departmental agencies and arm’s length bodies

Former Cabinet Office minister told MPs he became disillusioned with civil service skills and repeats call for basic training

Department for Education insists process was followed with regard to Steve Lamey, who alleges a “witch hunt”

Association of Revenue and Customs warns government not rely on “goodwill” to deliver £155m recovery package with no progress on pay

Top government officials detail list of changes to 85 IT systems at the UK border required because of Brexit

Home Affairs Committee report slams "completely unconvincing" Home Office plans to appoint just 300 new border staff

Senior officials defend rationale for new GPS tags but admit major failings of project now delayed by more than five years 

Former Post Office and MoJ man Neil Hayward replaces Peter Gregory at DfT firm

HMRC staff reviewed 73,000 stopped or amended tax-credit claims and closed a further 181,000 cases after meltdown of outsourced fraud-and-error checking contract

Public Accounts Committee to question tax officials today while union calls for halt of office closures plan 

Sir Chris Wormald told by PAC chair to provide examples of best practice to inform Treasury’s decision to link pay cap rises to productivity 

National Audit Office warns shortage of key commercial and cost assurance experts could jeopardise £1.7bn savings target from non-competitive contracts

Steve Allen to leave government-owned company building new rail link after auditors slam unauthorised redundancy payments

Michael Lockwood will become first director general of the Independent Office for Police Conduct

Union says Nuclear Decommissioning Authority cannot be held solely responsible for failings detailed by National Audit Office

Stephen Lovegrove told MPs that nuclear power plant deal with EDF would have collapsed had his department tried to renegotiate terms

Appointments watchdog ACOBA approves former PM’s request to work for electronic-payments company

Targeted marketing campaign results in “excellence in awareness-raising” gong

Deputy governor Sam Woods says slow progress in negotiations risks banks triggering contingency plans

National Cyber Security Centre marks first 12 months in existence by publishing report into threat landscape