Defence

Prime minister plans to backtrack on previous decision to allow Chinese giant to play a role in next-generation telecoms

'The department knows it can’t go on like this,' says PAC chair

Government sets out further details of Joint Biosecurity Centre alongside next steps to ease lockdown

PCS says department has reversed plans to outsource a range of veterans’ services after campaign work

New deputy national security adviser Alex Ellis sets out government’s plans for landmark review broadsided by coronavirus

Union says Home Office agency has agreed to talks on how to ensure onsite staff safety amid coronavirus crisis

MPs reject offer of private briefings and call on home secretary and new perm sec to appear at virtual evidence session

PM tells MPs government has “scaled back” work on integrated review as resources are diverted to tackle the coronavirus response

As part of Civil Service World’s Digital Transformation special edition, we asked sector experts to share their insight on how a broad range of near-term advances in technology will transform the way public services are delivered.

Comprehensive spending review and Brexit transition should also be pushed back, former Foreign Office perm sec Lord Ricketts says

Treasury sets out areas of focus for review and pledges to lead the world in linking cash to outcomes

Move comes after reports that procurement in ministry was a key plank of Dominic Cummings’s reform plan for the civil service

The UK’s security exports are booming, and DIT’s Defence and Security Organisation is helping businesses present a united front when competing for international trade. Deputy director Tracy Buckingham for security and cyber security tells all

Serco Health director Abi Tierney will lead HM Passport Office and UK Visas and Immigration

Integrated review will "go beyond the parameters of a traditional review", No.10 says

NAO says department ‘faces delivery and coordination challenges’ when it relies on others deliver public services

Chris Whitty says NHS has to prepare for 2% mortality rate but reality could be much less

Cabinet Office says handful of departments will pilot Conservative manifesto pledge, commencing in weeks

Chinese vendor will remain excluded from so-called core areas of the network

Northern Ireland has lowest median rates at Grade 6 to Executive Officer level

Home Office puts applicants on notice that highly-influential panel's role “may evolve” post-Brexit

Officials failed to learn lessons as cost of projects rockets by 115%, NAO says