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Strategic Defence and Security Review sets out aim of reducing MoD civilian staff numbers to 41,000 – with unions warning that the scale of cuts could have frontline ramifications
Gardner will be the first woman to take on the role overseeing government legislation
Information Commissioner's Office tells the Burns review of Freedom of Information that charges – backed by officials in a recent CSW survey – would have a "deterrent effect" and could create more work for departments
The Official View: Fiona Mactaggart – a Home Office minister in Tony Blair's government – tells us about gossiping perm secs and why she believes politicians should have a greater say in choosing their officials
Additional intelligence officers to be announced in Strategic Defence and Security Review
Theresa May sketches out Home Office vision for the next five years – and confirms that Home Office perm sec Mark Sedwill is reviewing size of the department's central HQ
Police and Crime Commissioners write to ministers over new funding formula – but Home Office says changes will improve "complex, opaque and out of date" system
Special report: Extensive cross-government survey finds broad range of views on the FOI act – with calls for more central support in dealing with requests and just over 50% of officials in favour of introducing charges
Senior Tory backbencher joins former Treasury solicitor Sir Paul Jenkins in questioning removal of reference to international law
Labour asks the NAO to look into Just Solutions International
Public Accounts Committee chair Meg Hillier questions MoJ's "management of taxpayers’ money" – but MoJ points to savings made from the closure
MoJ will not seek single supplier for debt collection – and department confirms it will keep enforcement in-house
Investigatory Powers Tribunal says Wilson Doctrine has 'no legal effect'
Interim chief inspector of probation Paul Wilson tells CSW he is optimistic about the 'Transforming Rehabilitation' scheme – but warns over “more for less” culture
Justice secretary Michael Gove tells MPs that Just Solutions International – the commercial arm of the National Offender Management Service – will abandon deal to advise Saudi Arabia on running of prisons
Public sector outsourcing has a chequered past, as the 2013 offender tagging scandal demonstrated. But Dr Ian Peters – chief executive of the Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors – says the MoJ's response shows how government departments can make better use of their internal audit teams before embarking on major outsourcing schemes
Latest report by the public accounts committee warns police could bear brunt of "cost shunting" by other departments, but Home Office says it is working on reforms to make the system more "fair, robust and transparent"
MI5 director general Andrew Parker gives first live interview to "increase understanding" of intelligence agency's work – and suggests social media firms have an "ethical responsibility" to report terror concerns
Director general for civil service reform to take up post as Home Office’s second permanent secretary, with responsibility for immigration and free movement
Former attorney general – and recent critic of government's human rights plans – elected to lead the Intelligence and Security Committee
Trade Union Bill easily clears latest hurdle in the Commons, as TUC warns of impact on “productivity, pay and demand”
Speed of MoJ's responses to Freedom of Information requests comes under scrutiny from the Information Commissioner's Office
What do ministers really think of their civil servants? We asked Liberal Democrat former justice minister Simon Hughes to appraise the civil service