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Transparency data reveals “strategic consultancy” arrangement to help keep tower area secure

Chris Whitty says NHS has to prepare for 2% mortality rate but reality could be much less

Crown Prosecution Service refuses highest proportion of FOI requests on cost grounds in 2019

Appointment comes as government says Ofcom should regulate social media under Online Harms measures

Initial stage of challenge claims there has been a "systemic failure” of care

‘You have to accept we will need some friction,’ says Cabinet Office minister in Border Delivery Group meeting

Ministers also reveal package of funding to boost bus travel and cycling across England as part of transport package

Department urged to introduce no-protest zones at clinics after turning down buffer zones proposal in 2018

Pierce will succeed Sir Kim Darroch, who stood down following leaks of diplomatic memos

New appointments in the civil service, UK politics, and public affairs, via our colleagues at Dods People

CDO will build on work to overhaul internal systems

Report blasts "incomplete and inaccurate" understanding of conditions and flags £916m backlog of major repairs

Mike Driver is heading up the government finance function at a time when civil servants’ skills are under unprecedented scrutiny. He tells Richard Johnstone about how he plans to improve diversity of thinking

Emma Howard Boyd calls on new watchdog to engage widely and not focus “just at those seen as doing ‘environment’”

A new government wishing to make an impact quickly should think twice before starting any machinery of government changes, says the former perm sec

Cabinet Office team working with ministries to identify roles ‘that do not meet our criteria for requiring a London base’

Cabinet Office says handful of departments will pilot Conservative manifesto pledge, commencing in weeks

HMRC tops departmental list of flights, according to analysis

Department confirms it has brought embassy staff home as it tells citizens to leave China

NLC chief tells CSW that “big wicked" policy problems will require increased collaboration across the public sector

The collapse of Thomas Cook led to the biggest government repatriation operation since the Second World War. Senior figures in the Department for Transport tell Richard Johnstone how it was done

Proportion of money spent with small firms continues to rebound

HMRC has embraced an army of apprentices to bring new talent to the organisation as well as refocus longstanding experience to new tasks. Director general of customer services Angela MacDonald explains how.

The PM’s top adviser says making government work better looks messy. But others will wonder if conflicting messages betray a power struggle