Foreign Affairs

Defence safety regulators to merge into Defence Safety Authority from 1 April 2015

As Britain’s first anti-slavery commissioner, Kevin Hyland is on a mission to set people free – with the help of some friends in very high places. Sarah Aston spoke to him.

As the UK’s first independent chief inspector of borders and immigration, John Vine gave the Home Office a few nasty nips. But don’t read too much into his early departure, he tells Sarah Aston

Home Office let off the hook after court rules department does not have to pay damages to defence firm 

New Diplomatic Academy set up to improve knowledge and skills of FCO staff 

Former prisons watchdog Stephen Shaw will lead a review into detainee welfare on home secretary’s request

Sir John confirms he will give evidence to the Foreign Affairs Select Committee on 4 February 

Cabinet secretary says the role he played in Chilcot Inquiry was "very limited"

The Ministry of Justice’s commercial arm bids for contract with Saudi Arabian Prison Service

Once an anonymous Whitehall lawyer, Shami Chakrabarti is now the very public face of Britain’s civil liberties movement – and a woman who inspires admiration and outrage in equal measure. Jess Bowie meets her

Inquiry set up in 2009 to investigate build-up to Iraq war will take “some further months”, Sir John Chilcot says

Management and removal of foreign national offenders comes under fire from Margaret Hodge’s committee

MI5 makes charity’s list of top employers for lesbian, gay and bisexual people

The PM has met security chiefs after saying last night that Britain must “modernise” interception rules 

Increasing security services resources is a priority, says the chancellor 

Jonathan Powell, the former diplomat, chief of staff to Tony Blair and Northern Irish peacebroker, is currently trying to negotiate a ceasefire in Libya. Matt Ross asks him about the FCO, sofa government, and the ups and downs of liberal interventionalism

Lord Levene hails a ‘sea change’ at the MoD

Chief of defence staff General Sir Nicholas Houghton (pictured left) calls for “smarter” thinking on big data and finance in the Ministry of Defence 

Executive agency responsible for the “land arm” of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has been sold for £140m, it was announced today

The Home Office has been urged to make "significant improvements" to its strategy for handling immigrants who stay beyond their visas’ expiry date

Service integration and management of multi-supplier IT services (SIAM) is just one of a many IT functions that will be brought in-house, the government’s chief technology officer Liam Maxwell tells CSW

Peter Hennessy interviews former MI5 chief Eliza Manningham-Buller about the three decades she spent tackling the Soviet threat, the IRA and Islamist terrorism

Staff shortages in the UK Border Force (UKBF) are putting increasing pressure on staff and causing concern that they’re no longer able to effectively protect the UK borders, a survey revealed on the 4 December.