Government Tax Profession

Business minister Anna Soubry says plan to reform relationship between tenants and big pubcos will not come into force next month as planned

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

Minister for the Cabinet Office likens freeing up of UK address data to Ronald Reagan's decision to open GPS up to civilian use

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

Spending watchdog to take its first detailed look at the central government procurement agency

Resolution Foundation report says welfare shake-up has "genuine potential" but could be less effective because of cost-cutting

Open Data Barometer finds that the UK government is still top for releasing open data – but France, Canada and Mexico are snapping at its heels

PCS study of almost 25,000 civil servants, including managers, finds widespread concern about the way performance management is working in practice

New body to be set up amid concerns over the use of big data, with Cabinet Office also drawing up new framework for government data science

New appointments in the civil service, UK politics, and public affairs, via our colleagues on Dods People

Cabinet Office review prompts fresh distinctions between executive agencies (EAs), non-departmental public bodies (NDPBs) and non-ministerial departments (NMDs)

Committee of MPs says department has “not made a diligent and credible case” for policy which aims to fund discounts for housing association properties by selling off council homes

Bernard Jenkin accuses government of "rotten" concessions to unions in exchange for EU campaigning – and is met with scorn by fellow PACAC member Paul Flynn

National Audit Office says probation services "have been sustained throughout a period of major changes" – but warns of "unsurprising frictions" between private and public sector staff

BIS perm sec seeks to justify closure of Sheffield site, and says departmental cuts will mean reducing headcount by 30%-40% "over time"

Tory MP Richard Bacon gets a cheeky question in about the internet sensation... 

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

Pinsent Masons lawyer and former Stonewall chair David Isaac to become chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) after promising to step back from decisions around government contracts

Shadow Cabinet Office minister Louise Haigh says use of WhatsApp should either be "banned completely or brought under the FoI legislation"

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

Foreign Affairs Committee report says challenges of vote to leave would not be "insurmountable" for the Foreign Office – but makes clear the department would need a big boost in resources to cope with the fall-out

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"

Department of Health says “military level” contingency planning in place to ensure emergency care will continue