Culture

With the end of 2016 fast approaching, we asked the UK's top officials to look back at the year, outline their goals for 2017 – and shed some light on their festive favourites. Sue Owen, permanent secretary at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, takes part in our annual perm secs round-up​

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Civil service staff feedback underscores capacity issues and extent of job losses and pay squeeze, main trade bodies warn

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Geoffrey Lyons reviews Mervyn King's accessible take on the rudimentary failings of modern finance 

Government equality watchdog workers set to stage one-day protest over budget cuts and compulsory redundancies

During my many years inside government I met ministers from all parties who, privately, agreed that universal Winter Fuel Payments were a costly and untargeted indulgence which we could ill afford

Jacqui Gavin tells Jonathan Owen about her role as chair of a:gender, the civil service’s support network for staff who are transgender, and rates Whitehall’s progress on diversity

Think-tank raises eyebrow at PM’s capacity to turn her Conservative Party Conference pledges into reality against backdrop of further belt-tightening and Brexit uncertainty

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New appointments in the civil service, UK politics, and public affairs, via our colleagues on Dods People

New appointments in the civil service, UK politics, and public affairs, via our colleagues on Dods People

New appointments in the civil service, UK politics, and public affairs, via our colleagues on Dods People

Two years into her tenure at the Charity Commission, chief executive Paula Sussex says her organisation is making substantial strides towards turning around some damning findings from Westminster watchdogs. Mark Smulian reports

New appointments in the civil service, UK politics, and public affairs, via our colleagues on Dods People

The highest proportion of top public sector jobs on record went to women in the last year, new figures from the Commissioner for Public Appointments show

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Equalities and Human Rights Commission paints stark picture of differing outcomes for ethnic minority groups and urges government to join up disparate initiatives

Caroline Normand set to join Which?, while other moves see the government name Lowell Goddard’s abuse inquiry replacement and Charlie Bean lined up for the Budget Responsibility Committee

MPs set to look into former prime minister's controversial list of honours and peerages for former advisers and allies

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Nicholas MacPherson and Peter Ricketts to become crossbenchers in the Lords, while ex-special advisers figure prominently among Cameron’s 13 new Conservative peers

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Prejudice and discrimination can rise at a time of heightened insecurity, says Dr Marc Verlot of the Equality and Human Rights Commission – and it's not just the job of the police to tackle it