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Former cabinet secretary Gus O’Donnell has warned his successor Jeremy Heywood to be ready for any number of scenarios after May 2015

Cabinet Office minister denies accusation of disillusionment in civil service

Home Secretary Theresa May’s plans to deport foreign graduates stalled

Jonathan Powell, the former diplomat, chief of staff to Tony Blair and Northern Irish peacebroker, is currently trying to negotiate a ceasefire in Libya. Matt Ross asks him about the FCO, sofa government, and the ups and downs of liberal interventionalism

Former cabinet secretary says post-2015 election negotiations could result in a unique leadership outcome

Lord Levene hails a ‘sea change’ at the MoD

CSW asks former ministers to appraise the UK civil service. This month, Sir Hugh Robertson MP gives his views

The Home Office has been urged to make "significant improvements" to its strategy for handling immigrants who stay beyond their visas’ expiry date

The Civil Service must embrace failure as part of the innovation process if it is to succeed, minister for the Cabinet Office Francis Maude has said

Why are select committees so rude? Yes, they must challenge witnesses – but there’s no need to be disrespectful

“I pushed through the tuition fees reforms”

The Community Budgets scheme has taken another small step towards achieving change, finds Sarah Aston

The DWP now assesses 95% of new child maintenance cases accurately, the NAO has found

Peter Hennessy interviews former MI5 chief Eliza Manningham-Buller about the three decades she spent tackling the Soviet threat, the IRA and Islamist terrorism

Julian Kelly is the government’s first ever director-general of public spending and finance. He tells Winnie Agbonlahor about his plans for strengthening the profession

Further cuts and reforms in Whitehall could save an extra £10bn by 2017/18, George Osborne announced in his Autumn Statement earlier today. But where are the cuts coming from?

Despite declaring the government’s Northern Powerhouse initiative as being “at the heart” of the Autumn Statement, the chancellor George Osborne was quizzed on his limited devolution to cities and counties.

The government will continue to restrain public sector pay in the next Parliament, George Osborne announced in his Autumn Statement today. 

Chancellor of the exchequer George Osborne is due to give his Autumn Statement today (Wednesday 3 December) at 12:30pm. So what can be expected?

New rules on permanent secretary recruitment allowing the prime minister to make the final selection from a list of candidates came into force today.

The government plan to invest £15bn in the ‘Road investment strategy’ over the next six years, the transport secretary Patrick McLoughlin (pictured) and chief secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander announced this morning.

The Cabinet Office does not maintain a detailed database for grant programmes, so has no way to identify if discrepancies have occurred in the last five years, a National Audit Office (NAO) report revealed today.  

Philip Rutnam explains his love for this historic cultural meeting point

New powers for the Scottish Parliament were laid out this morning by the cross-party commission set up after the referendum on independence. Lord Smith, who chaired the commission said the new powers would make the Scottish Parliament "more powerful, more accountable and more autonomous".