Operational Delivery

Department seeks supplier to support potential six-month investigation

Move to be confirmed later today after PM chairs COBRA meeting

Treasury sets out areas of focus for review and pledges to lead the world in linking cash to outcomes

Chancellor puts figure on number of officials expected to move, as departments develop relocation plans ahead of Spending Review

Move comes after reports that procurement in ministry was a key plank of Dominic Cummings’s reform plan for the civil service

Boris Johnson and top officials warn that crisis will get worse

New ‘economic campus’ will be one of three new offices announced in the Budget, says chancellor

Call to open appraisals process to the National Infrastructure Commission ahead of possible Budget boost

Cabinet Office seeks supplier to fulfil two-year contract

Message sent to staff as fresh bullying claims emerge from Patel’s time at the Department for International Development

Emergency meeting lays out steps ministers could take if outbreak spreads, including calling up retired doctors to help staff hospitals

Emergency committee meeting planned after PM visits hospital to discuss preparations for treating virus

Serco Health director Abi Tierney will lead HM Passport Office and UK Visas and Immigration

FDA union says divorcing spads from ministers means the role essentially becomes a policy adviser recruited outside impartiality rules

UK2070 commission calls for 20-year commitment to Shared Prosperity Fund and radical decentralisation of funding

IFS sets out Budget bind in analysis of public finances ahead of 11 March statement

Digital department also reveals work to “understand and address the issues with legacy IT in government”

Site in Sunningdale will be turned into homes and retirement apartments

Department’s second perm sec will be responsible for HMRC’s operations and deliver transformation plan

CDO will build on work to overhaul internal systems

Emma Howard Boyd calls on new watchdog to engage widely and not focus “just at those seen as doing ‘environment’”

Cabinet Office team working with ministries to identify roles ‘that do not meet our criteria for requiring a London base’

Proportion of money spent with small firms continues to rebound

PM rules out accepting EU rules in exchange for post-Brexit trade deal as both sides set out negotiating plans