Brexit

Cabinet Office minister to promise vast majority of powers returning from Brussels will start off in Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast – not Whitehall

Emails reveal Sue Gray was unhappy with foreign secretary’s decision to waive £6,000 room charge for Institute for Free Trade

Council to bankroll new office development in drive for share of Brexit-related quango expansion

Theresa May will set out her confirmed Brexit strategy next week following talks between top ministers and senior officials 

Report suggests UK’s top negotiator is increasingly frustrated at being sidelined in Brexit talks

Departmental perm sec reveals Brexit funding for 2018-19 has not yet been agreed with the Treasury

Government insists agreed transition will have an end date, ahead of a Brexit war Cabinet meeting in Chequers 

Northern Ireland secretary responds to calls from DUP leader Arlene Foster to intervene in absence of devolved government 

Sacked first secretary of state calls for publication of Brexit analysis as more MPs accuse the Treasury of blocking leave plans

Environment select committee calls on department to analyse impact of Brexit on agriculture and introduce fund for UK farmers

Former chief scientific adviser to government has warned tough post-Brexit migration rules could hamper scientific research

Cabinet secretaries hold the fort in times of crisis and have seen splits over Europe come and go. Here’s why one of them thinks Brexit will be a civil service renaissance

Inquiry by MPs found immigration and border system already understaffed, with problems likely to be compounded by uncertainty over Brexit

Details of additional Brexit funding also reveal £1m transfer of funds following Oliver Robbins’s move to the Cabinet Office

Union accuses tax agency of 'throwing IT staff on the scrap heap' as it emerges there may not be room for them in new regional centres

Report highlights the need for system to be in place before the UK leaves the European Union in May 2019

Civil Service Commission eyes relaxation of competition rules if they are “unlikely to secure suitable appointees”

Appointments watchdog publishes advice letter to Ameetpal Gill over contract with Oliver Letwin’s cross-party Brexit initiative

David Jones said there was a “huge improvement across the board in the preparedness of departments” in the first year following the creation of DExEU

MPs criticise slow progress on “byzantinely complicated task” but Brexit department insists capability is constantly under review

Brexit is creating a mammoth task for government. The new Brexit|Org|Gov Project is attempting to understand and track what needs to be done across the public sector ahead of leaving the EU

Intervention by three former civil service chiefs comes after leading Brexiteers accused the Treasury off fiddling figures to maintain a close relationship with the EU

The department’s Richard Burn named HM trade commissioner for China during UK government’s three-day trade mission

Union slammed DExEU minister Steve Baker after he refused to dismiss “conspiracy theory” claims of civil service bias