Justice & Home Affairs

Staff bring out specialist equipment to fix breached river banks as response efforts focus on longer-term measures

Review comes after attack by Usman Khan left two people dead

Manifesto pledges include resurrecting department for climate change and creating a chief secretary for sustainability role in HM Treasury

Secret Intelligence Service chief details how he interacts with Downing Street and what he looks for in new recruits

Report warns plan to hire 20,000 extra police will ramp up sentencing, prisons and probation work

Budget cuts and policy changes could be among reasons for delays, Migration Observatory says

Inquiry will ensure "lessons are learnt to prevent these shocking events happening again"

Johnson commits MHCLG and Home Office to legislating for first-phase report recommendations

MPs sceptical over "government’s poor track record in delivering promised new prison places"

Devolution move seeks to align policy and spending decisions with health, education and social welfare

Response to the Justice Committee reveals that Cabinet Office-led Reducing Reoffending Board has been scrapped

MPs applaud departmental drive to secure longer-term funding to tackle poor maintenance

Authorities look to Whitehall’s ground-breaking Race Disparity Audit to understand and improve local issues 

Shadow minister says Boris Johnson’s behaviour is a source of “unease” in civil service

Fifty-strong list of individuals and teams reveals those in the running for honours in the 14th annual Civil Service Awards

Baroness Angela Browning set to complete five-year term at Acoba helm

Review of governance and management structure intended to "support the ramp up phase of delivery”

Law expert left Department for International Trade last month after being caught in July

Report saying there is "still much to do" comes as G4S quits immigration outsourcing

Government chief commercial officer says guidance will help officials "work towards eliminating modern slavery" in supply chains

Civil servants offered extra leave to volunteer as special constables in drive to sign up officials

Tracey Crouch also details Whitehall push-back over fixed-odds betting terminals, Brexit's opportunity cost and ‘complete pain in the arse’ Matt Hancock

National Audit Office recognises progress but says ‘significant’ time and budget challenges remain

Home affairs committee chair said “the extraordinary participation police recruits and officers in an ostensibly political event raises serious concerns”