Operational Delivery

Home Affairs Select Committee issues scathing report on errors in police funding overhaul – as department promises to learn lessons

Pressure on Care Quality Commission resources is showing through report errors, say MPs, as CQC chief David Behan (pictured) says regulator has been "working hard to improve"

DWP says it will meet the cost of redundancies stemming from decision not to move Housing Benefit staff into the department when benefits are merged

Plans to grant councils power to raise money for social care could lead to big regional variations, warn care sector leaders

Welsh first minister says there is “no real machinery for a regular heads of government meeting” – as Silk Commission chair reveals he considered calling for separate civil service.

National Audit Office says project likely to be finished eight years later than originally thought

Former head of the civil service drafts in TUC chief Frances O'Grady and ex-KPMG deputy Alan Buckle to assess whether the Treasury is "fit for purpose"

PCS union accuses driver agency of "petty-minded response" to staff who took earlier strike action

Chief executive of the Defence Equipment and Support agency says fresh Trident cost estimates are proof of an end to a culture in which the MoD has been "unrealistic about the numbers"

Fiscal watchdog predicts 0.1m drop in public sector workforce by 2020, but says pay restraint will reduce need for cuts

Defence committee takes evidence on the Strategic Defence and Security Review – with decision to axe 30% of MoD's civilian staff coming under fire from academics

Significant victory for NHS chief executive Simon Stevens as chancellor George Osborne brings forward promised NHS investment