HMRC’s budget to ensure businesses are paying employees the national minimum wage (NMW) and national living wage (NLW) is to increase by £5.3m in 2017/18 after it grew significantly in April 2016 to £20m, according to government’s Labour Market Enforcement Strategy report

The National Audit Office (NAO) has qualified the accounts of High Speed Two (HS2) Ltd, the company set up by the Department for Transport (DfT) to develop, build and operate a high speed rail network, on the grounds it paid out £1.76m in unauthorised redundancy payments and lacked sufficient controls

Chris Newell, a partner at corporate recovery and business advisory firm Quantuma, has been appointed administrator to Capital Media Newspapers Ltd, a London and Dorset weekly newspapers group, and has successfully sold some of the titles, saving the majority of the jobs in the business