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PWC partner Charles Lloyd shares his experience of life in Whitehall – and the different style of governments in the Middle East – in a regular Q&A with people who’ve crossed organisational and sectoral boundaries to join a new working world

Tom Karsten – a Royal Navy real admiral – is named as the new CEO of Cefas

Civil Service World's regular guide to the very best in Whitehallese

What do ministers really think of their civil servants? We spoke to Dawn Primarolo, former minister at the Department for Children, Schools and Families

As the country goes to the polls, here's CSW's full guide to what the 2015 election will mean for the civil service

Tom Read leaves chief technology officer job at the Cabinet Office as CTO brief is rolled into new chief digital officer role

Michael Barber joins former Maryland governor Martin O'Malley at event on delivery co-hosted by the Cabinet Office, Centre for Public Impact and Institute for Government

A learning support assistant tells Sarah Aston about the unintended effects Labour’s inclusion policy is having on mainstream schools over a decade after it was introduced. Illustration by John Levers

Civil Service World's regular guide to the very best in Whitehallese

Tackling the cultural and organisational changes needed to optimise and improve digital customer experience across the public sector

Mark Gibson, former civil servant and outgoing chief executive of the Whitehall and Industry Group (WIG), talks to CSW about secondments, pairing up perm secs with chief execs, and bridging the gap between the public and private sectors

New study by CSMA club highlights gap between public and private sector attitudes to work

Former health secretary (2010-12) Andrew Lansley talks to Civil Service World about his best and worst experiences of working with the civil service

Civil Service World's regular guide to the very best in Whitehallese

A former police call centre worker tells Freya Pascall about the pressures – exacerbated by central government – that led to their resignation. Illustration by John Levers

Former environment secretary (2010-12) talks to Civil Service World about her best and worst experiences of working with the civil service, clearing her desk post-reshuffle, and why she believes Whitehall training could be boosted by secondment to the private or voluntary sectors

Civil Service World presents our new, regular guide to the very best in Whitehallese

Journalist, doctor and academic Ben Goldacre - author of the acclaimed books Bad Science and Bad Pharma - tells CSW what works and what doesn't in the civil service

Departmental budgets, the Highways Agency and Gus O'Donnell on the Queen's VE day plans make our regular round-up of Whitehall in the headlines

Tackling the cultural and organisational changes needed to optimise and improve digital customer experience across the public sector

CSW asked Conservative MP and former minister Alistair Burt to appraise the UK civil service 

CSW asked Lib Dem MP and former transport and home office minister Norman Baker to appraise the UK civil service 

Chris Wormald

Permanent Secretary of the Department for Education

Rob Varley

Chief Executive of the Met Office

Jon Thompson

Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Defence

Mark Sedwill

Permanent Secretary of the Home Office​

Alison Saunders

Director of Public Prosecutions

Philip Rutnam

Permanent Secretary of the Department for Transport

Mark Russell

Chief Executive of the Shareholder Executive

Jane Platt

Chief Executive of National Savings & Investments

Sue Owen

Permanent Secretary of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Ruth Owen

Head of the Operational Delivery Profession

Una O'Brien

Permanent Secretary of the Department of Health

Tim Moss

Chief Executive of Companies House

Malcolm McKibbin

Head of the Northern Ireland Civil Service