Civil Service Reform

A Spending Review offers a chance to re-examine projects and plans from the last four years – and to lay the groundwork for the next round of schemes. Government project chief Tony Meggs tells Richard Johnstone how the Infrastructure and Projects Authority will use the process to help drive improvement

£48m from the Life Chances Fund will help raise funds for social projects

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Resolution Foundation says much-criticised reform now faces most difficult stage and government needs to work to ensure take up

BT argues that the Internet of Things (IoT), where homes, cars, people, even entire cities are connected to the internet, will let you do things you once dismissed as science fiction

Occupational pension fraud and overpayments make up lion’s share of cashpot

Confirmation of the 100% take up of space comes as the Competition and Markets Authority moves nearby

BT, the Telecom Infra Project (TIP), and Facebook have launched the second annual competition for start-ups in telecom infrastructure to join the UK’s TIP Ecosystem Acceleration Centre (TEAC), based at the BT Innovation Labs in Martlesham, Suffolk and in London’s Tech City

Think tank calls on DDaT head to publish a transformation implementation plan and sit on the Civil Service Board

Policy paper outlines a range of recommendations for driving use of emerging technologies across the civil service

International trade secretary Liam Fox unveils Exports Strategy with goal to increase UK exports to 35% of GDP

Up to 650 staff from non-ministerial department set to move to HQ based near new government hub

Home Office asks for written comments on “main legislative, policy and operational decisions” that led to scandal

Can we write policy without people? BT's Phil Baulch asks

Rollout of software to some businesses hailed as “testament to the hard work of HMRC staff”

Daniel Thornton reviews Geoff Mulgan’s book, which argues that solving the hardest problems is about improving the way people think together

Six departments given responsibilities to help tackle rough sleeping in plan published by housing secretary James Brokenshire

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Discussions underway for whether and how Liam Maxwell will be replaced after he leaves civil service in October

DCMS-led document also signals departments will face greater requirement to demonstrate social-value aspects of contracts and grants

Sources indicate that one of the civil service’s most high-profile digital and technology specialists is to take a job in the commercial sector

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Commercial Law Group expansion includes an increase to 13 in the number of senior posts

Documents also reveal concerns from senior officials over the government’s privatisation of the Property Services Agency