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2019 nominees have done "outstanding work", says awards champion Sir Richard Heaton

Calls for 28-day cap rejected the same day as Home Office confirms new immigration minister

£300m spending cap accounts for possible frequency of “disruption events”, including border delays

Unit will be staffed by Cabinet Office and Ministry of Defence officials

Fraud and error remain a "significant challenge" as measures to cut mistakes fail, permanent secretary says

Union says pay award was imposed “without proper and meaningful consultation”

Johnson promises to "mobilise the civil service" as he tells Gove to make no-deal planning "top priority"

Foreign Office is told not to "pick and choose" which leaks to investigate

Internal memo praises civil service's 'commitment to serve the government, the country and your fellow citizens objectively and professionally”

Scruton's return as chair comes after incoming prime minister Boris Johnson says sacking was “disgraceful”

Government rethinks approach after DfT's attempt to secure freight capacity for first Brexit deadline 'cost £85m'

Johnson promises “better infrastructure, better education, more police” and better broadband in acceptance speech

Nicky Morgan asks Treasury perm sec Sir Tom Scholar if officials have updated economic analysis to include additional Brexit scenarios.

Re-advertised role pared down from 100 days a year to 50 in second cycle

Tussell analysis finds 90% of contracts worth £5m or more went to contractors that didn't pay their suppliers on time

PACAC criticises lack of ministerial oversight and accountability for civil service learning and development

“The fundamental thing is the culture of integrity and loyalty of the people who see this stuff," ex-US ambassador Sir Peter Westmacott says

Henderson will succeed Sir Ian Boyd in October

Further cost increases to much-delayed and over-budget programme "inevitable", committee says

Trade secretary Liam Fox says he hopes trainees "will be able to enjoy their whole career at DIT"

Team collaborates with MHCLG and charities for Royal Statistical Society prize-winning project

Respect in civil service is ‘earned and deserved’, cabinet secretary tells officials after ambassador’s resignation

Sir David Normington tells event that attacks on officials could be "passing phase" or "existential threat"

Two years after he took up his post, Iain Bell, deputy national statistician for population and public policy, tells CSW how the agency has tapped new data sources to fill evidence gaps and improve policymaking

Resignation comes after Sir John Major says Darroch should not be "thrown to the wolves" for doing his job

Benefits agreed in £33m Eurotunnel settlement “little more than window dressing”, MPs say

Committee says department is displaying "a distressing pattern" of ignoring calls to test the managed migration process before pilots

Industrial action will be the latest in a series of strikes that have been backed by high-profile MPs 

Foreign Office permanent secretary says probe will be government-wide as emails had a "very wide" readership in Whitehall

Foreign Office says ambassadors must be able to give "honest, unvarnished" opinions in confidence

As Pride season gets underway, the DfE perm sec talks diversity, data and learning from his daughter

Appointment comes more than a year after communities department advertised for a chief scientific adviser

Select committee scrutiny comes after CSW reveals repayments being demanded from retired officials

Labour say report reveals 'unconstitutional political intervention', but FDA accuses Times of reporting 'tittle-tattle over coffee' as if it was the settled view of civil servants

Lidington pledges government will only pay for capacity it uses after £50m payout to scrap no-deal ferry contracts

Department chiefs twice as likely to have attended a fee-paying school than a comprehensive, education charity says