Project Delivery

Report by the National Audit Office spending watchdog finds that charity received £46m of public funding over 15 years

Public Accounts Committee calls for greater focus on preventing over- and underpayments

Work and pensions committee report calls for simplified payment structure and better categorisation of participants

Camila Batmanghelidjh tells MPs there has been an "enormous amount of leaking from government offices" over charity's financial management

Business secretary tells MPs that axing Department for Business, Innovation and Skills would be a "step backwards". But he asks: "Do we need 80 locations?"

Justice secretary Michael Gove tells MPs that Just Solutions International – the commercial arm of the National Offender Management Service – will abandon deal to advise Saudi Arabia on running of prisons

National Audit Office to investigate decision to grant £3m to beleaguered charity after warning from then-Cabinet Office perm sec Richard Heaton

Director general for civil service reform to take up post as Home Office’s second permanent secretary, with responsibility for immigration and free movement

New watchdog the Single Source Regulations Office seeks to overhaul MoD deals with single-source contractors

Public and Commercial Services union makes "strong representations" to tax authority about "timescale and process" of 90-day talks, which department says may result in compulsory redundancies

Exclusive: Tax authority says it will aim to "avoid the need for compulsory redundancies" when 90-day process opens next week

Charity has reportedly told the government it will close in spite of latest £3m Cabinet Office grant