Foreign Affairs

National Audit Office calls for ‘systematic approach’ to assessing capability and effectiveness of ODA spending

Union says foreign secretary wrote to Interserve “expressing unhappiness” over treatment of contract workers

Update also reveals Windrush taskforce has rejected 1,445 applications for documentation proving status

Former diplomat Kumar Iyer becomes department’s first BAME board member

MPs warn practice is undermining the nation’s international climate and development targets

Parliamentary committee voices ‘serious concerns’, including use of a digital-only system and numerous technical problems

NAO head says the department failed to protect innocent students in 2014 English test cheating scandal

Minister reveals cost of building online service

Department says Future Recruiting Programme will improve on “overly complex” predecessor scheme

Watchdog notes progress with post-Brexit trade agreements as well as capacity issues

In the latest instalment of our series on civil service leavers, we meet Andrew Morley, who after a working on policing and justice policy in the civil service, is now a consultant on public safety in the Middle East. He explains how he has used the skills he learnt as civil servant in a new environment

Trade department perm sec tells CSW that work to fuse regional trade plans with UK economic sectors is nearing completion