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Courts programme boosts justice department's consultants bill

Department offers £120k a year for leader tasked with ensuring science and evidence stay "at the heart" of its post-Brexit operations

Interim secretariat of 16 civil servants won't fulfil all of planned regulator's functions, environment secretary tells MPs

With the end of 2018 fast approaching, we asked the UK's top civil servants to look back at the year, outline their goals for 2019 – and tell us who would turn on their town’s Christmas lights

Alan Evans joins HMRC at a "critical time for the department", says permanent secretary Jon Thompson

Prof Ian Boyd cancels decision to step down and pledges to stay on for “at least another year”

Longstanding top scientist at the environment department heading for the exit, in move Defra says comes at "natural end" of his fixed term

At Defra, Helen Ghosh ditched Whitehall’s traditional departmental structure in favour of a fluid, project-based system. Now, she tells Matt Ross, we’re facing an even greater revolution in relations between the centre and the front line