Brexit

Bernard Jenkin highlights the way Margaret Thatcher worked with the civil service to implement major policy changes as example for incoming PM

Department’s annual report details £46.5m rise against 700-strong boost in workers

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

Department floats two-year contact to support delivery of tech and infrastructure

Following news of Olly Robbins' likely departure, Brexiteers must stop treating civil servants like parents turning up at your first Glastonbury and act with level-headedness

Prospect members protest at imposition of rejected 1.3% pay offer

Latest move comes after Institute for Government warns government may never be as ready for no deal as it was in March

Tweaks for 2019 include Public Value Framework sections but IfG warns openness project is still very much a work in progress

Meg Hillier also queries “surprising” lack of ministerial directions for some Brexit-related spending

Health department says it has done no impact assessment of how no-deal Brexit would affect disabled people

Migration Advisory Committee asked to look again at regional earnings thresholds and ‘high public value’ jobs with low pay

Philip Rycroft has spent much of his career working on devolution – the biggest force for change in the UK’s government until the EU referendum. He led the Department for Exiting the European Union from 2017 to the end of March this year, helping government try to deliver the result of that referendum. Suzannah Brecknell caught up with him to find out more about why that’s been so hard, and what Brexit means for devolution. 

National Audit Office calls for ‘systematic approach’ to assessing capability and effectiveness of ODA spending

Former director general for EU exit has been interim permanent secretary since April

Tech giant announced that next version of iOS will permit third-party access to near-field communications

Speaking at a think-tank event, Lord Macpherson also offered thoughts on the economy to incoming prime minister, while Treasury Select Committee chair said a full leadership contest is needed “so the maddest ideas perhaps don’t make it to asking for official civil service advice”. 

The scale, constraints and pressure of Brexit have very few comparators – and the clock is ticking. Is it any wonder that the complexity of trying to deliver it is keeping civil servants up at night?

Former Cabinet Office minister flags “keep calm and carry on” spirit amid Brexit abnormality

MPs say a new department for constitutional affairs should take on the UK government’s role in devolved areas

Department says Brexit-related workload will see 600 additional staff located at Stratford centre

Civil servants could be either ‘too fresh or too jaded’ to maximise no-deal Brexit preparation for October, highlights think tank

In these unprecedented circumstances, we should ditch the convention of confidentiality around civil servants’ advice to ministers – for the good of us all, says the FDA general secretary

Commission chaired by former civil service head blasts government’s approach to economic development and calls for new £10bn-a-year fund