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Cabinet Office minister Matt Hancock sets up a new group to help departments to become "intelligent consumers of their own data" – and promises lunchtime coding groups for civil servants. Audience members at the Open Data Institute meanwhile quiz him on the privatisation of the Postcode Address File

Chatham House urges protection of FCO – while officials reportedly say they are "confident" of a good outcome at the Spending Review

Report by the National Audit Office spending watchdog finds that charity received £46m of public funding over 15 years

Institute for Government finds it is "much harder than it should be" to establish evidence base for public policymaking – and launches new tool to help officials

Work and pensions committee report calls for simplified payment structure and better categorisation of participants

Deloitte’s annual State of the State report on what the next government must consider when creating its public sector reform programmes

Some view mutuals as a brave new world; others, as a sneaky way to push privatisation. CSW hears from those who’ve made the leap.

Iain Rennie, state services commissioner at the New Zealand Government, tells Civil Service World about the strengths and weaknesses of his home civil service

But the perm sec diversity champion has a sceptical audience.

Jaime Perez-Renovales, subsecretary to the Presidency, Spanish Government, tells Civil Service World about the strengths and weaknesses of his home civil service

Top New Zealand official Iain Rennie is reforming a system often lauded in the UK. Suzannah Brecknell reports