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Cabinet Office review prompts fresh distinctions between executive agencies (EAs), non-departmental public bodies (NDPBs) and non-ministerial departments (NMDs)
National Audit Office says probation services "have been sustained throughout a period of major changes" – but warns of "unsurprising frictions" between private and public sector staff
BIS perm sec seeks to justify closure of Sheffield site, and says departmental cuts will mean reducing headcount by 30%-40% "over time"
Cabinet Office minister says distributed ledgers could offer a "better way" of monitoring the distribution of government cash
Former chief of defence materiel, who left the civil service at the end of 2015, to carry out progress review for the MoD on equipment buying
Open data organisation co-founded by Sir Tim Berners-Lee says proposed model for the privately-owned Land Registry "appears very similar to historic examples of long-term outsourcing deals and risks repeating the same mistakes"
Two new proposed tenders aim to simplify mobile working through use of the cloud
Online payments firm Stripe – which handles payments for Kickstarter – among those chosen in revamped approach to government merchant services
Union's deputy general secretary says 1% average pay rise cap is "not sustainable", after government gives departments more freedom to reward "outstanding" senior officials
Donnelly says department is spending £168,000 a year on putting Sheffield and London staff up in hotels – but local MP Paul Blomfield says the BIS perm sec's latest answers give only a "half truth"
Public Accounts Committee warns departments still "do not know their future resource needs and will have to resort more often to using consultants and temporary staff"
Government sets out response as Senior Salaries Review Body warns some managers earning less than their juniors – but FDA blasts "sticking plaster" approach
Meg Hillier and Iain Wright demand detail on BIS restructuring – after permanent secretary Martin Donnelly says the department cannot give figures while redundancy talks continue
Border Force resource budget will be £558.1m for 2016/17 – a cut of 0.4% on last year – but the agency gets a capital spending boost
Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Select Committee asks whether civil service in its current form is "appropriate for the twenty-first century" – and whether Whitehall's pay policy for officials is up to scratch
Microsoft demonstrates how several health organisations have successfully transformed their service delivery
Two new data and statistics centres to be created at the Office for National Statistics HQ in Newport, while an “increased London presence” is planned to improve its the organisations relationship with users
Government's top IT official taking on newly-created role of national technology adviser
Mental health, musculoskeletal disorders and encouraging healthy lifestyles top priorities for newly-created cross-Whitehall role
New digital hire will head up plan to help departments share common digital platforms and oversee budget "in excess" of £15m a year
Social enterprise takes over reins of public sector development programme as government ends centrally-funded support
Civil service union PCS argues latest proposals do not take account of Land Registry's digital progress and could lead to a reduced capacity for statutory work
Union analysis of Cabinet Office data on more than 280,000 officials highlights "statistically significant" differences in how different groups are treated
Alliance for Useful Evidence project says incentives will be needed to ensure policy takes account of evidence