Project Delivery

Update of 2012 rules explicitly identifies new entities being created as part of the UK’s departure from the European Union

Government Commercial Function professional standards handbook touted as ‘tool for career progression’

Independent review offers five recommendations to help department deliver aid more effectively

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