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Chancellor Sajid Javid says there is no time to delay as he announced auto sign up scheme

Government's new Innovation Strategy set out ambitious proposals to update processes, eliminate ageing kit, and embrace emerging technologies. Civil Service World's sister title PublicTechnology caught up with GDS innovation head Sue Bateman to find out more

Ministers and civil servants to skip most meetings to focus on Brexit preparations, department says

Department to spend up to £300k developing service through Alpha phase

Gove summoned before MPs after leaked dossier warns of fuel, food and medicine shortages

Dominic Hornberger remanded in custody until 13 September

The leak of the Cabinet Office’s Operation Yellowhammer contingency planning shows how much government is working on mitigating the risks it can predict from a no-deal Brexit. But the government cannot prepare for things it doesn’t know will happen

PCS says campaign netted ‘significant boost’ for 100-plus staffers left in pay limbo

BT reviews an event looking at how man and machine are working together to drive digital transformation

Damascene conversions on civil service brilliance should be backed with proper recognition and reward, says Prospect deputy general secretary

Home secretary wants border restrictions to be imposed immediately after Britain leaves the European Union if no agreement can be struck with the bloc

Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove admits no-deal Brexit would cause ‘bumps in the road’ but says leaks represent worse case scenario

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

Injuries to official said to be not life threatening after attack on Marsham Street yesterday

Cabinet secretary says that there is ‘no evidence to suggest that the attack was anything other than an isolated incident’ at this stage

Labour leader tells MPs cabinet secretary’s written response to query should inform plans for combatting an election-time EU exit

Home secretary says her thoughts are with victim of “unprovoked knife attack”

Three weeks into his cabinet career, Commons leader says he ‘previously thought only corporate bankers worked such hours’

Providers told supplies could take up to five days to deliver – up from three days set out in February guidance

Extra staff drafted in as departments feel the strain of Brexit preparations and major tech projects

Recently launched National Leadership Centre to create online platform allowing leading officials to seek each other out

Virgin Trains, which has run the line since privatisation, loses out to new operator including Italian state-owned firm

Think tank also calls for merger of policing watchdogs after warning current set up 'places a heavy bureaucratic burden on individual forces'

Work and pensions select committee chair asks if DWP network will benefit from no-deal Brexit prep funding