Facts and figures: meet government's chief scientific advisers
Chief scientific advisers provide vital expertise to help departments make informed policy decisions – not least during national emergencies. But to be effective, they must also be experts in the workings of Whitehall. Beckie Smith spoke to CSAs past and present to discover how they combine these distinctive skills.
Matthew Vickerstaff named as interim successor to government project chief ahead of a full...
“This role is critical to our transformation as a department servicing around 20 million...
“This role is critical to our transformation as a department servicing around 20 million...
Whitehall projects chief to chair body constructing cross-London line as it is revealed project...
May postpones vote as a group of MPs says it is “disappointed” in the Treasury's...
Review follows the revelation that senior officials failed to take notes in important meetings...
EU citizens working in the NHS and higher education sectors can now apply for settled status in...
New appointments in the civil service, UK politics, and public affairs, via our colleagues at...
Brexit select committee also seeks continued scrutiny role following mooted machinery of...
Home Office immigration enforcement DG Tyson Hepple confirmed the department had been...
FDA union’s latest working hours survey paints picture of understaffing, stress and reduced...
Brexit is already transforming much more than the UK’s relationship with the EU. But amid the uncertainty and acrimony, can politicians, officials and voters seize the chance to make change for...
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
As part of our series profiling up-and-coming leaders in the civil service, Marsha Osivwemu, the...
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...
The government’s recent moves to get the expansion of airport capacity off the ground are the latest twist in one of the UK’s longest running policy sagas. Richard Johnstone considers whether this...
CSW brings together memories and tributes from those who knew Lord Heywood over his 35 years as a civil servant
Jess Bowie and Suzannah Brecknell explore some of the many ways Lord Heywood touched and inspired those he worked with
The former permanent secretary of the culture department chews the fat with Suzannah Brecknell
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...