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Union general secretary sticks up for the Home Office second perm sec after Home Affairs Committee grilling

Theresa May writes to the Home Affairs Committee chair over Border Force budget, after MPs order second permanent secretary Olly Robbins to face a second evidence session

Home Affairs select committee demands department’s second permanent secretary returns to answer Border Force budget questions

Home Affairs Committee chair Keith Vaz repeatedly questions Robbins on Border Force funding

Director general for civil service reform to take up post as Home Office’s second permanent secretary, with responsibility for immigration and free movement

Oliver Robbins, director-general, civil service, has spoken out in defence of the government’s new Talent Action Plan – designed to promote diversity in the civil service – after a blog about its publication attracted 130 comments on the civil service website.

Oliver Robbins, formerly the deputy national security adviser, has been appointed ‘director general for civil service’ in the Cabinet Office.