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Is truth scarcer than it used to be? Claire Foster-Gilbert, director of the Westminster Abbey Institute, sits down with Geoffrey Lyons to discuss the idea of truth, the Abbey’s role in politics, and the Institute’s latest lecture series

Weather service’s deputy Nick Jobling to take over until a permanent chief executive is appointed

Prospect calls on members to urge their MPs to sign EDM condemning attacks on public service

Civil service unions urge politicians to give workers same rights to fair pay that they enjoy

Workers at non-departmental public body could walk out over office closure and other changes

Public Accounts Committee calls for a framework tracking number of contracts companies hold across government

Government refutes Public Accounts Committee suggestion it is being reckless on potential for hard exit from EU

Prime minister will say that government is seeking “the broadest and deepest possible agreement” after the UK leaves the European Union

Former troubled families tsar approved to take up role with police, criminal justice, and local government consultancy

Former DIT permanent secretary calls for the Brexit debate to focus on the evidence, following personal criticism from international trade secretary Liam Fox

CSW's sister title PublicTechnology talks to Sara Huntingdon about the Space for Smarter Government Programme’s work with Whitehall and the wider public sector

 

MPs slam Nuclear Decommissioning Authority for needlessly complex contract but add that business department and Treasury cannot escape blame

BT has a team of over 2,500 security experts working to maintain the highest standards. Here we meet some of them and find out what they do.

Cabinet ministers have dipped into a special pot set up by former chancellor George Osborne 

Jeremy Richardson explains how the British policy-making style has been steadily shifting away from governance and towards government, and why Brexit should usher in a return to the former

Foreign and Commonwealth Office to remove all avoidable single-use plastics from UK estate by end of year

Officials outlined changes to rail franchising and told MPs trade unions refused to engage over Govia Thameslink franchise

Parliament’s senior learning projects officer Claire Bogue describes the work behind a recently launched Massive Open Online Course on select committees

Former international trade permanent secretary Martin Donnelly to give speech undermining Brexit vision of Liam Fox 

Official watchdog investigation also revealed former universities minister Jo Johnson interfered in recruitment process 

Hundreds mourn the former Treasury solicitor described as “screamingly funny”, a pioneer and an inspirational leader

Cabinet Office minister to promise vast majority of powers returning from Brussels will start off in Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast – not Whitehall

Nearly five million employees are work some hours for free, with almost 40% unpaid work done by public servants

Cap plan comes after select committee called for government action on “dysfunctional” energy market