News

Shadow Cabinet Office minister Dianne Hayter thinks politicians should show more respect to civil servants who “work their socks off”. But, she tells Jess Bowie, there are still plenty of areas where Whitehall needs to up its game.

How will public sector cuts in the 2015 Spending Round impact on the UK health sector?

Martin Donnelly, permanent secretary of the Department of Business, Innovation & Skills and chair of the The Way We Work (TW3) Delivery Board, shares his thoughts on the programme at the inaugural TW3 Awards that took place last week. Sarah Aston reports

Sir John confirms he will give evidence to the Foreign Affairs Select Committee on 4 February 

Cabinet secretary says the role he played in Chilcot Inquiry was "very limited"

The Ministry of Justice’s commercial arm bids for contract with Saudi Arabian Prison Service

Kate Gross, No. 10 private secretary to two prime ministers, was driven by a desire to make people’s lives better, writes Oliver Robbins

Once an anonymous Whitehall lawyer, Shami Chakrabarti is now the very public face of Britain’s civil liberties movement – and a woman who inspires admiration and outrage in equal measure. Jess Bowie meets her

London and the South East can attract greater investment by working as one to provide global investors with attractive opportunities, says AECOM

Top Treasury official calls for closer working between Whitehall and local government

Inquiry set up in 2009 to investigate build-up to Iraq war will take “some further months”, Sir John Chilcot says

Management and removal of foreign national offenders comes under fire from Margaret Hodge’s committee

Alison Saunders defends plans after lawyers warn against new guidelines 

Public trust in civil servants is at an all-time high, says new survey

The Theory of Everything is a moving and sensitive love story with a difference, says Sarah Aston

Major infrastructure projects must be in line with long-term strategy 

DCLG’s Troubled Families Unit won the Policy Award

Scotland protected from full shock of drop in oil prices by economic and financial union of UK 

MI5 makes charity’s list of top employers for lesbian, gay and bisexual people

Government must support UK businesses to develop the capability to lead on upcoming UK infrastructure projects, says AECOM

Nicholas Macpherson says economic and financial functions should both remain in the Treasury

Nicholas Macpherson says Smith Commission recommendations may enhance accountability in Scotland and “make our job easier”

Move comes after PAC blasts Nuclear Management Partners for handling of operations at Sellafield

CSW asked Lib Dem MP and former transport and home office minister Norman Baker to appraise the UK civil service