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Department urged to ensure that "drive to deliver greater numbers" is not "delivered at the expense of delivering maximum value"

New group chief technology officer will be responsible for driving shared IT services – with DCLG looking for candidates who will challenge "the status quo"

Independent advisers to the government say law on misconduct in public office is "unclear" and "ambiguous"

Former deputy PM says decision to try and avoid an "infantile Whitehall turf war" left him buried under a "tsunami of paperwork"

Council chiefs urge greater say in DWP's replacement for the Work Programme

Elizabeth Denham says she will consider making it easier for the Information Commissioner's Office to step in when departments are slow to respond to public requests for info

The highest proportion of top public sector jobs on record went to women in the last year, new figures from the Commissioner for Public Appointments show

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Catch up with all the latest appointments at the Department for Exiting the European Union as it begins to flesh out its senior management team – plus all the usual Whitehall moves

Latest Labour Market Outlook from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development finds concern over employment law and migration policy

IBM’s Vice President, Public Sector, Sharon Bagshaw sits down with Civil Service World to discuss cognitive technology and the future of government digital transformation

Pessimism about EU referendum fallout “particularly high” among public sector workers, finds the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development

Advisory Committee on Business Appointments gives the nod to unpaid Birmingham University role for the former HMRC chief

Brexit secretary David Davis says "the most brilliant people in Whitehall" are looking to work for his new department

Common Agricultural Policy fines continue to hamper Defra accounts, while National Audit Office also points to the Ministry of Defence's non-compliance with international accounting standards

Cabinet secretary gives nod to existing Brexit unit as he calls on civil service "to ensure everyday business of government and providing public services goes on"

Central procurement agency announces that it is to phase out reliance on managed service fees

Royal Statistical Society praises Transport department for "honest" and "innovative" presentation of official statistics

Energy minister – who wants to trigger Article 50 sooner rather than later – knocks Michael Gove out of the race to be Tory leader

Department for Work and Pensions' (DWP) 85,000 staff will be encouraged to save with member-owned financial institutions

National Audit Office says landscape of quangos "remains confused and incoherent"

Justice secretary and surprise Conservative leadership contender launches his bid to be the next prime minister with focus on public services shake-up

"I cannot now foresee an announcement until at least October," says transport secretary Patrick McLoughlin

Former cabinet secretary says coming up with options for UK's post-Brexit future would be "a wonderful job" for the civil service

Justice committee warns the Ministry of Justice against seeking to "represent the quality of its evidence base to be higher than it is" after senior legal figures criticise research into court fees

Public and Commercial Services union says it will "continue the pressure on BIS" over decision to axe Sheffield office, as staff kick off latest round of industrial action

Former Department for Education HEO Edward Chapman sentenced to three years and four months in jail after admitting £1m fraud and obtaining money by deception – as department says it is seeking to "recover the misappropriated funds in full"

New figures from the Management Consultancies Association show another year-on-year rise in public sector consultancy spending – but totals remain well below 2009 peak

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Latest revisions to the tax authority's Single Departmental Plan include customer service targets and aim of getting staff engagement up to civil service-wide average

Cabinet Office promises new multi agency incident transfer protocol will help improve response to major incidents like terror attacks and floods

Late principal private secretary to prime minister David Cameron honoured in naming of this year's Policy Award

KPMG’s Head of Government and Infrastructure Kru Desai sits down with Civil Service World to discuss a career in public sector transformation and why she’s looking forward to leading a challenge to ‘Reimagine’ public services

MPs warn key details on new Equality and Human Rights Commission chairman "were not forthcoming" as they weighed up conflict of interest concerns

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Study by Tech UK and Dods Research finds gap between vision and reality on departments' digital transformation plans