Project Delivery

Details of additional Brexit funding also reveal £1m transfer of funds following Oliver Robbins’s move to the Cabinet Office

MPs credit department with bringing programme “back from the brink” but warn that biggest challenges are yet to come

Tailored review urges Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government to give garden city development corporation more financial freedom

MPs criticise slow progress on “byzantinely complicated task” but Brexit department insists capability is constantly under review

Shadow body overseeing hubs programme and New Property Model expected to go live last year

Departments called on to be more open about policy challenges at five-year anniversary of the What Works Network

Fewer than 10% of Community Rehabilitation Companies qualify for offender-reduction rewards

Plan also proposes “radically” reducing pay differentials between director general roles across departments, but any pay increase above the 1% cap in 2018-19 will need to be paid for by productivity improvements

MPs get update on outsourced prisons contract as Cabinet Office reports public services are being maintained

Department’s services arm offers up to £43k for globe-trotting specialists

Public Accounts Committee says that HMRC’s wide-ranging reform plans have been thrown into doubt by its extra Brexit workload

NAO report warns of stiff competition in recruitment and department’s funding and workload challenges

Whitehall’s chief executive says thousands of civil servants have already been moved into Brexit roles, with around a quarter coming from outside government

NAO report identifies staffing gaps in five departments and high rate of turnover in DExEU

NI Audit Office says government is not delivering value for money on its ageing and inefficient office estate

Dave Penman condemns “cowardly move” of politicians criticising DWP official instead of ministers 

New measures will reduce lag on claimants' receipt of benefits payments from six weeks to five

Chancellor Philip Hammond set to respond to Sir Michael Barber’s proposals in Wednesday’s Autumn Budget

Watchdog’s snapshot shows BEIS has biggest numeric burden, followed by Defra

Senior officials defend rationale for new GPS tags but admit major failings of project now delayed by more than five years 

Tax department chief reveals HMRC has requested but not received more details on the Paradise Papers document leak on offshore investment

Amyas Morse tells MPs that ministerial directions are too rare and departments must re-prioritise ahead of Brexit

Post will also involve creation of analytics tools and platforms for minimising fraud

David Davis says departments are preparing 300 Brexit-related programmes to be implemented with or without a deal