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Serco Health director Abi Tierney will lead HM Passport Office and UK Visas and Immigration

FDA union says divorcing spads from ministers means the role essentially becomes a policy adviser recruited outside impartiality rules

Breakdown of talks would lead to increased customs checks, policy paper says

Knife crime has hit a record high in England but it is hardly a new phenomenon. Jonathan Owen looks at what is driving current levels and how police and civil servants are responding in new ways

Cabinet Office and now-defunct DExEU top list of ministries with the fastest-turning revolving doors

UK2070 commission calls for 20-year commitment to Shared Prosperity Fund and radical decentralisation of funding

Former head of government Rough Sleepers Unit returns to Whitehall as PM announces new aid package

Department to phase out physical immigration documents, despite warnings that digital-only EU settlement scheme has "parallels with Windrush"

IFS sets out Budget bind in analysis of public finances ahead of 11 March statement

Integrated review will "go beyond the parameters of a traditional review", No.10 says

Lynne Owens, director general of the National Crime Agency, is one of the most important figures in UK law enforcement. She tells Richard Johnstone how her drive to help people at their most vulnerable took her to the top of her profession.

Department chief will oversee a "growing portfolio of financial investments in housing and infrastructure delivery", according to job advert

 Former cab sec and home secretary advise officials to resolve disputes behind closed doors in letters to The Times

Union slams report of a list of officials that No.10 would like to replace

The Conservative Party’s newfound interest in the north of England could be a game-changer for civil servants. Or it might just be a passing fad

Big numbers for capital spending in next month’s budget won’t fix decade of austerity, think-tank warns

David Normington reflects on Patel v Rutnam stand-off amid reports department faces institutional racism allegations in draft Windrush review

Since his early days as a journalist, Robert Chote has been holding the government to account for its handling of public finances. Now, towards the end of his 10-year statutory term as chair of the Office for Budget Responsibility, he sits down with Geoffrey Lyons to discuss his career, the OBR’s role, and November’s cancelled budget. Photography by Baldo Sciacca

NAO says department ‘faces delivery and coordination challenges’ when it relies on others deliver public services

Applicants given an additional month to apply to head finance watchdog

Professionals’ union Prospect wades into row over government’s failure to reduce contribution rates following valuations ‘pause’

Policies "not yet operating with the consistency and coordination, nor with the scale" needed to meet industrial strategy goals

Prospect survey concern that staff will not be involved in decisions about how future tech is implemented

Policy proposals unveiled today include no visa route for "low-skilled" workers