Departments urged to adopt 'less visionary' approach to major projects to improve delivery
Treasury spending teams should be "more involved in challenging the benefits of projects", says auditor general
New appointments in the civil service, UK politics, and public affairs, via our colleagues at...
Peers urge chancellor Philip Hammond to drop plans to extend the window in which HMRC can...
Department for Transport, Ministry of Justice, Cabinet Office and Department for Work and...
Institute for Government says department has to put officials’ accountability at the heart of...
Cabinet Office-based post is ‘a high-profile role at the centre of key strategic decision making...
Concerns over statutory work as hundreds of civil servants are redeployed
Any move to add regulatory functions onto the work of departments would require assurances over...
Public Accounts Committee chides department for not going ahead with police funding formula...
With no evidence to support the claim that benefit sanctions help get more people into work, the...
Transport committee approves fomer airport chief as rail regulator chair
Department is looking for a range of external suppliers to support work on its Technology...
Philip Hammond heralded an end to austerity, but with growing pressures set to squeeze services further, his Budget can’t meet the public’s expectations
Black History Month reminds us that celebrating differences helps people understand other people’s experiences and illustrates the opportunity to create a culture where everyone can help push the...
Sir Jeremy Heywood reflects on his civil service career as he announces he is to step down as Cabinet secretary to focus on his treatment for cancer
When the history of Brexit is written, it will be some of this country’s political leaders, not its civil service, that will be subject to the harshest scrutiny, says the former DWP perm sec
The government faces tough choices on spending, and it’s time it involved the public in that discussion
Moving to the education department brought Jonathan Slater back to a policy area he knows and...
"When I was at college, I never knew the civil service was for everyone to join, it thought it...
"There are plenty of positive professional role models in the technology industry, but getting...
A Spending Review offers a chance to re-examine projects and plans from the last four years –...
Elizabeth Gardiner, the first parliamentary counsel, leads the team that writes the UK’s...
Matthew Rycroft has undertaken some challenging foreign policy roles in government, from helping...
Could new ways of working transform the way the Civil Service delivers in challenging times? Geoffrey Lyons reports on a recent Civil Service Live roundtable
A wide-ranging change to how government recruits for roles is being introduced across government. Whitehall’s chief people officer Rupert McNeil and other experts speak to CSW about what the move...
Colin Marrs reports on a Civil Service Live round table discussion exploring how to spread innovation across government
Former cabinet secretary Lord Andrew Turnbull shares his reflections, and a lunch, with Suzannah Brecknell
The chair of the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee finds the Donmar’s new musical Committee a fair and compelling portrayal of the hearing on the collapse of Kids...
Geoffrey Lyons reviews Nick Spencer’s The Mighty and the Almighty: How Political Leaders do God – a collection of essays on how current and former heads of state engage with faith...