Operational Delivery

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