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BEIS programme manager makes literary springboard’s ‘final three’ 

Just five local authorities bid for cash from government infrastructure scheme designed to accelerate delivery of on-street power points

Department launches three-year plan to boost digital, data and technology offer

Harlow Council planners approve blueprint for science campus

 Public Accounts Committee criticises departments' “business as usual” assumption for 2019 and berates pace of pan-Whitehall Border Planning Group 

But peer review finds HR qualms and suggests the organisation needs louder voice on air quality

Labour minister-turned-Greater Manchester mayor berates anachronistic policymaking processes

Bureaucrat-turned-academic Gary Sturgess argues Whitehall needs to up its game on public service contracting and commissioning. Jim Dunton reports

Former Post Office and MoJ man Neil Hayward replaces Peter Gregory at DfT firm

Michael Lockwood will become first director general of the Independent Office for Police Conduct

Protest set to cover Sheffield branch’s final three weeks

Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science granted planning permission for state-of-the art Lowestoft base

Cabinet secretary Jeremy Heywood announces individuals and teams winning 2017 awards

PCS launches nationwide ballot on sentiment and readiness for industrial action

Institute for Government argues that European Court of Justice cannot provide a neutral voice

Agency says small firms make up two-thirds of businesses on £330m framework to supply Government Hubs Programme

Select committee chair seeks evidence base for “unfair” Staircase Tax

Cabinet Office to boost payments made under 2016 scheme after High Court challenge, but Manzoni moots replacement

Backlash over advert for Tees Valley-focused role that “can require occasional trips” up north

Day of action marks response to "12% real terms fall in wages” over past decade, says union

Pharmaceutical company executive Steve Oldfield set to take up posting in October

Watchdog says too few impact assessments on new regulations are fit for purpose

ACOBA's annual report shows 27% hike in requests from former Crown servants to take up non-Whitehall roles

Annual survey says staff numbers rose by 0.3% in year to April and points to narrowing gender pay gap

Conservative peer and former education secretary launches House of Lords tirade against “megaspads” and calls for substantial headcount reduction

Agency’s annual report says it will miss its target for identifying and preventing losses in the tax credits system for a second year running

Government signs 20-year lease on city centre office development to house 2,900 staff

Prime minister applauds Grenfell Tower and terror responses, but calls on Whitehall staff to “be bold” in facing future challenges

National Audit Office says pioneer areas require ongoing support and scrutiny, while regeneration role may expand

Conservative minority government’s Westminster woes will extend beyond the division lobbies, says think tank

National Audit Office says department did not look carefully enough at other ways to fund new nuclear plant

Committee on Standards in Public Life seeks more views on need for beefed-up rules on outside work, and the potential for conflicts of interest

Queen’s Birthday Honours list also includes knighthood for UN under-secretary general Stephen O’Brien

Former cabinet secretary says “wheeler-dealer” nature of minority government is likely to sideline Whitehall expertise, and predicts shelving of some Brexit groundwork 

Former Treasury economist Sir David Norgrove is no stranger to number crunching and dealing with tough politicians. Now the new chair of the UK Statistics Authority tells Jim Dunton about the challenges ahead for the statistics watchdog, and what he thinks Thatcher would have made of Brexit

Institute for Government data crunch highlights discrimination issues and “stalled” progress on boosting Senior Civil Service’s BAME numbers