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With the end of 2016 fast approaching, we asked the UK's top civil servants to look back at the year, outline their goals for 2017 – and shed some light on their festive favourites. Stephen Lovegrove, permanent secretary of the Ministry of Defence, kicks off our annual perm secs round-up​

With the end of 2016 fast approaching, we asked the UK's top civil servants to look back at the year, outline their goals for 2017 – and shed some light on their festive favourites. This list will be updated throughout December, so check back regularly!

DIT officials say Whitehall has trebled its trade policy staff numbers since the referendum, and stress focus on training up existing staff rather than drafting in outsiders

Whitehall's annual people survey provides a moment of catharsis – but, Jane Dudman wonders, is it asking the wrong questions?

New recruit be responsible for managing a £50m annual IT budget

Former chief executive of the Office of Rail and Road has also been Defra and Home Office chief economist

After three years away from Whitehall, Ian Watmore is back — this time as head of the organisation upholding the very values of the civil service. The new first civil service commissioner sits down with Matt Foster to talk reform, diversity, and why, as a departmental leader, you can no longer "just draft your way out of a problem”

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

Fomer Foreign and Commonwealth Office director of strategy Alex Ellis set to join new department in January as director general

Civil servants from across the UK gathered at Lancaster House in London last night for the annual Civil Service Awards, organised by CSW’s parent company Dods. Below is a full list of the winners — congratulations from the CSW team to all those were nominated!

Former education secretary calls for weekly naming and shaming of civil servants working on big projects, but union for senior officials says his intervention is "more about resurrecting his career as a columnist"

After deal that could see some staff given 20% hike over four years, People Survey 2016 shows DWP satisfaction with pay higher than before Treasury capped rises

James Stewart becomes the latest senior departure from the Government Digital Service, as he makes the case for IT spend controls

The Department for Exiting the EU will be given £94m a year from 2017, while the FCO and trade department receive extra funding to build trade policy capability. But the FDA union has warned of EU exit "on the cheap"

Spending Review 2015 plans "will remain in place", says the new chancellor – but departments will be able to reinvest some of their 2019/20 savings

Microsoft looks at how it's cloud technologies are helping the MOD meet its digital transformation agenda

Microsoft shares key findings from one of the largest studies of business and IT leaders around digital transformation

Live coverage of the build-up, announcements and reaction as chancellor Philip Hammond makes his first fiscal statement, via our colleagues on PoliticsHome.com

FCO perm sec Simon McDonald has told MPs he is “hopeful” that the Treasury will announce a new fund to recruit trade policy staff in today’s Autumn Statement

"Brexit will be a true test of whether SDPs are fit for purpose", says the Public Accounts Committee

 Former head of the civil service Lord Kerslake urges government to "pause, review, take stock of what it has in front of it and then revisit the question of capacity"

Government efficiency targets have only made the financial position of NHS bodies worse, warns the National Audit Office

Department looks for almost 100 new staff on a three-year, fixed-term basis