Operational Delivery

More pre-Budget consultation, the creation of a new Cabinet committee, and a tougher stance from Treasury perm secs feature on think tanks' wish list

Treasury Committee, chaired by Andrew Tyrie (pictured), questions tax authority's plans to make businesses keep digital records and produce quarterly updates

Cabinet Office-commissioned study backs the “default presumption of full-cost recovery” for regulatory activities

Civil service chief people officer Rupert McNeil says leadership academy, launching later this year, will ask leaders to learn from successes and failures "of their peers and predecessors"

Comments from NHS England chief executive prompt former Treasury permanent secretary Nick Macpherson to warn of a "bottomless pit" on health service funding

Internal message to HM Revenue & Customs staff – seen by CSW – acknowledges that its estate overhaul will save less than expected, but dismisses talk of a major rethink as "just wrong"

Civil servants spread across three sites will share offices with the Home Office and DCLG by next year

NAO chief says it is time for the department to “step back and consider” its estates strategy as HMRC acknowledges its plans to close most offices will take longer, cost more, and save less than expected

Civil service’s biggest union says pressures flagged by FDA and Prospect in support of new pay deal also affect less senior workers

Brexiteers react with fury to Senior Salaries Review Body submission that suggests implementing EU referendum result is pushing Whitehall to its limits

Guidance refresh deletes entire section on creation of “Extended Ministerial Offices”

Former Barnet and Haringey council CEO Nick Walkley set to take helm of delivery body