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Civil Service Commission also reveals Health and Safety Executive breached recruitment principles

PACAC concludes dual roles of producing and regulating official data compromise the public good in a climate of fake news 

Two years after he took up his post, Iain Bell, deputy national statistician for population and public policy, tells CSW how the agency has tapped new data sources to fill evidence gaps and improve policymaking

Departments set for new mentoring pilot and urged to use better executive search firms

Tweaks for 2019 include Public Value Framework sections but IfG warns openness project is still very much a work in progress

Meg Hillier also queries “surprising” lack of ministerial directions for some Brexit-related spending

They play an increasingly important part in parliament’s scrutiny of government and can inspire dread in even the most experienced perm sec. Forty years on from the creation of the modern select committee on 25 June 1979, Richard Vize looks at how they affect policy – and the lives of civil servants

Liaison Committee says select committees should grill any ministerial appointment nominee they want

£940,000 bill does not include VAT or cost of departmental officials' time

Union criticises government’s £46.9m spent with supplier in 2018

Permanent secretary admits there is "more we can do" to improve access to education stats

Update also reveals Windrush taskforce has rejected 1,445 applications for documentation proving status

It took departments 119 days on average to publish details of contracts

In these unprecedented circumstances, we should ditch the convention of confidentiality around civil servants’ advice to ministers – for the good of us all, says the FDA general secretary

Regulator calls for publication of official data to "enable meaningful public spending debate"

Union leaders sound alarm as bill tops £12m at one ministry and tens of millions across government

Heather Savory to join UN data body as hunt for new national statistician continues

Comms staff to receive more training after a media officer circulated figures from public opinion tracker to colleagues

After 10 years scrutinising government accounts and trying to stop departments from squandering taxpayers’ cash, the comptroller and auditor general Sir Amyas Morse is standing down from the National Audit Office. Jess Bowie meets him. 

Department confirms the move, which it says will allow it to prioritise most vulnerable cases

Department gets rid of data where it did not have ‘explicit consent’ of users

Cabinet Office figures show that four departments received over half of all FOI requests

DHSC perm sec and head of civil service policy profession says function needs to get better at evaluating the quality of its advice

Permanent secretary Peter Schofield details cost of deploying hundreds of civil servants to deal with historical errors