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Justice secretary and surprise Conservative leadership contender launches his bid to be the next prime minister with focus on public services shake-up
Home secretary launches leadership bid with promise to set up new department to negotiate Britain's exit from the European Union – and rules out general election before 2020
National Probation Service director Colin Allars named as successor to Lin Hinnigan at troubled young offenders' organisation
Justice committee warns the Ministry of Justice against seeking to "represent the quality of its evidence base to be higher than it is" after senior legal figures criticise research into court fees
Resignation announcement comes ahead of the publication of the Taylor Review of the Youth Justice System
Independent recruitment regulator says campaign group’s league table was factually wrong and misdirected
Home Affairs Select Committee report contrasts staffing cuts with a 29% spike in asylum applications
Cabinet Office promises new multi agency incident transfer protocol will help improve response to major incidents like terror attacks and floods
Report by MPs on the justice committee warns that prison safety "has deteriorated further and continues to do so"
Justice secretary Michael Gove says improvement board report highlights “broader problems” with the youth justice system
Ministry of Justice says it will announce "next steps in due course" amid reports Medway Secure Training Centre to be brought into public control
Experienced rehabilitation charities say they have been left disadvantaged by the bidding process for the Ministry of Justice's probation overhaul
National Audit Office says probation services "have been sustained throughout a period of major changes" – but warns of "unsurprising frictions" between private and public sector staff
The government's vision of autonomous prisons held to account for delivering against defined outcomes is welcome – but it will require a step change in the way performance is measured
Microsoft reviews the technology that can help police officers perform their jobs more effectively
Border Force resource budget will be £558.1m for 2016/17 – a cut of 0.4% on last year – but the agency gets a capital spending boost
Home Affairs Committee chair Keith Vaz repeatedly questions Robbins on Border Force funding
Director general Mary Calam to leave civil service after more than two decades, with Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism's Paul Lincoln taking on the job
MPs says there is concern over FCO's focus in spite of boost for human rights spending – but the department says human rights will "always be a central part of our diplomacy"
Jane Marriott, previously director for the Middle East and North Africa at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, is to head up a new counter-terror unit
Central London "a very expensive place to employ people", says MoJ perm sec Richard Heaton – but he says core departmental officials unlikely to move to support devolution of justice powers to Manchester
Budget document emphasises plan to "move civil servants out of expensive Whitehall accommodation", with Ministry of Justice looking to set up "centres of expertise outside the capital"
Public Accounts Committee points the finger at frequent leadership changes in its report on the Home Office's long-running border data troubles
Public pending watchdog finds delays in the justice system because of “basic avoidable mistakes” and says reform alone will not tackle all “causes of inefficiency"