Leadership

BIS perm sec Martin Donnelly requests rare "letter of direction" from minister Sajid Javid after raising value-for-money concerns over plan to gift extra shares to Royal Mail staff

Minister for the Cabinet Office Matt Hancock says new "implementation taskforces" recognise the need for cross-government working, but stresses the need for accountability

Study by the Institute for Fiscal Studies raises concern over private sector's ability to absorb public sector job losses

Former non-exec Dame Sue Street says justice secretary's move "not in the spirit of good governance"

Report by the National Audit Office says the centre of government must do more to support departments struggling to manage the changing Whitehall workforce

Former cabinet secretary Lord O’Donnell calls on new Cabinet Office minister Matt Hancock to scrap a rule which means fast streamers must change jobs every six months

FDA and PCS unions sound the alarm over proposals to end "six figure" public sector redundancy pay

In full: "Making the civil service work for modern Britain", Minister for the Cabinet Office Matt Hancock's May 22 speech to the Institute for Government on civil service reform

New man in 70 Whitehall to tell IfG he wants officials to "feel in control of their destiny"

No headcount changes under chancellor's plan to merge Shareholder Executive (ShEx) and UK Financial Investments (UKFI) into one body overseeing privatisations

CSW wants civil servants' questions for the MPs set to replace Margaret Hodge at PAC

PWC partner Charles Lloyd shares his experience of life in Whitehall – and the different style of governments in the Middle East – in a regular Q&A with people who’ve crossed organisational and sectoral boundaries to join a new working world