Justice & Home Affairs

Annual report of the National Offender Management Service says additional overtime payments were needed to address staffing pressures

Department begins recruiting for post-Brexit arm’s length body

Perm sec Richard Heaton slammed for “less than satisfactory” response to prison pressures

Civil servants who collect court fines could be moved to the private sector under outsourcing proposal

Fraudulent letter claiming to be from the justice department chief asks companies for information

Judges say controversial fees “prevent access to justice”, meaning government faces repayment bill

Hugh Ind has interim appointment made permanent 

Osborne-led department rapped Theresa May’s domain over pay agreement for child-abuse inquiry chief, it has emerged

Prime minister applauds Grenfell Tower and terror responses, but calls on Whitehall staff to “be bold” in facing future challenges

National Audit Office report says late-running programme was “overly ambitious” with an “unachievable” timescale

New group will help “put in place the foundations” for recovery, says communities secretary

Attorney general Jeremy Wright reveals the government is rethinking the plan, which had been criticised by some senior legal figures

Paul Lincoln to lead immigration and customs-control body from September

Outgoing council chief claims local government secretary Sajid Javid told the authority to seek his resignation

Lidington pledges to continue reform programme, but Labour criticise lack of legislation the Queen’s Speech

As the death toll continues to rise, prime minister says nation needs answers on high-rise inferno disaster

Environmental campaigners seek High Court review of clean air proposals and consultation

Theresa May to urge US president Donald Trump to keep intelligence and security information secure

Terrorism threat level raised to critical after COBRA meeting

Last week's cyber hack exploited weaknesses in widely used computing systems across the public sector, particularly the NHS. Leaders need to get better at evaluating the small risk of very serious harm and getting vulnerabilities onto ministerial agendas

Letter dismisses government's claim that it meets 2% NATO defence spending target as “accounting deception”

Outgoing Food Standards Agency chief executive Catherine Brown believed she had a job with a low media profile until the horse meat scandal raced over the horizon. She tells Mark Smulian about the changes she has made in the department over the last five years and her plans for the future

Justice Select Committee raises spectre of more fragmented services and weakened economies of scale from latest reform drive