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Outgoing Food Standards Agency chief executive Catherine Brown believed she had a job with a low media profile until the horse meat scandal raced over the horizon. She tells Mark Smulian about the changes she has made in the department over the last five years and her plans for the future

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

Foreign secretary’s mayoral fixer becomes non-executive director at King Charles Street

Former Cabinet Office minister says his perception of the civil service went “downhill a lot” during the coalition government

Select committee voices fears Brexit process may cause departments to miss implications of new European laws

Justice Select Committee raises spectre of more fragmented services and weakened economies of scale from latest reform drive

Department launches recruitment drive for £110k post to underpin “huge” change programme

BT has appointed a new senior executive, Mark Sexton, to head up its public sector business in London and the South East and implement a new strategic direction to increase its local presence

Civil Service World brought together a panel of IT experts from across the civil service to explore the opportunities and challenges presented by the use of data in policymaking and delivery

Changes to be judged on how funding can promote sustainability of services and reduce worklessness

Public Accounts Committee calls for forensic audit of spending at UK Trade & Investment after concluding contractor took advantage of arm’s-length body

Rise in spending through aid outsourcing has turned DfID into a commissioning department, say MPs

Committee says more work is needed on the economic impact of leaving the EU on WTO terms

Think tank says data dashboards have the potential to mislead and urges government to boost staff’s data science skills

Alex Holmes announced that he is to become deputy director of cyber security at the department

Her Majesty's Prison and Probation Service replaces National Offenders Management Service as Ministry of Justice takes over the commissioning and monitoring of prison and probation services

Now that the government has begun the Article 50 process, the Brexit honeymoon period will be over for Theresa May. Securing a deal which pleases everyone – or indeed anyone – will be virtually impossible

Former Treasury civil servant Sir David Norgrove wants to raise the status of statisticians and economists in government

Brexit blamed for increase in churn levels at central department

David Prout announces departure a month after legislation for £56bn project's first phase gets Royal Assent