HMRC’s public sector tax reforms net £410m
Changes to so-called IR35 rules for “off-payroll” workers boost coffers as ministers mull roll-out to private firms
New appointments in the civil service, UK politics, and public affairs, via our colleagues at...
David Sterling backs decision by department to appeal High Court judgment against construction...
Theresa May is to publish fresh proposals for avoiding a hard border in Ireland in a last-ditch...
Cabinet Office advertises for replacement for Campbell McCafferty, who has held the role since...
Department pledges to take more notice of green building certification and increase use of low-...
Dame Judith Hackitt also wants building regulations reviews at least every five years...
Government will launch new London North Eastern Railway brand to run services after financial...
NAO criticises failure of both parties to recognise complexity of contract to simultaneously run...
Department issues contract notice seeking external supplier for two-year contract to install...
Two select committees back the government’s decision not to bail out outsourcing firm and let it...
Cross-government awards programme has opened for 2018, alongside...
Amber Rudd’s decision to resign comes as no surprise, but the full picture of accountability for Windrush is much more complex
Many internationally lauded ideas for improving how government work have come from the UK – but even when they are copied many in the civil service view central reforming units like the Prime...
There can often be a daunting space between policy development and delivery in government – a space where policy ideas can be undermined as they move from one team to another. Here are...
It is easy for politicians to blame immigration officers and other civil servants tasked with implementing immigration rules and regulations. But to do so unfairly distracts from the all but...
The sacking of Nick Hardwick as chair of the Parole Board has raised questions about the future of the body – including how ministers will be able to find a successor, says Suzannah Brecknell
An in-depth review of the effectiveness of the civil service has focused in on the relationship between officials and political leaders as the key fault line. If it can be improved, so can policy...
An innovative scheme has brought Army officers and MoD civil servants together to improve...
Shaun McNally is responsible for delivery in an area that has seen some of government’s most...
Taking up the post as permanent secretary of the Welsh Government was a homecoming for Dame Shan...
The former permanent secretary of the Scottish Government discusses career management, financial...
Jon Thompson has brought openness to change and challenges to the post of HMRC chief...
As he leaves the civil service after 40 years, Sir Robert Devereux, outgoing permanent secretary...
The National Health Service is sitting on a goldmine of patient information, but identifying how best to tap its rich seams is very much a work in progress. SA Mathieson reports. Photography by...
As seven years of public sector pay restraint come slowly – and unevenly – to an end, Suzannah Brecknell meets the Office for Manpower Economics, the team helping pay review bodies and departments...
The civil service has made progress in the way it shares and uses data, but a recent round table concluded that officials must make sure they don’t lose momentum as they try to realise the full...
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...
Geoffrey Lyons reviews Ron Chernow's biography of the enterprising statesman whose legacy endures in modern America