Justice & Home Affairs

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”

With free movement now set to end abruptly on 31 October, the Home Office remains unable to answer key questions

Department declares former minister’s resignation pledge project a success

Dominic Hornberger remanded in custody until 13 September

Injuries to official said to be not life threatening after attack on Marsham Street yesterday

Cabinet secretary says that there is ‘no evidence to suggest that the attack was anything other than an isolated incident’ at this stage

Home secretary says her thoughts are with victim of “unprovoked knife attack”

Think tank also calls for merger of policing watchdogs after warning current set up 'places a heavy bureaucratic burden on individual forces'

Lord Carlile will consider if programme is fit for purpose

Johnson said the Treasury would provide £2.5bn to increase prison spaces