Fraud, Error Debt & Grants

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