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One year into her permanent secretary job, Kelly tells Tamsin Rutter why transport is the best department, about “racy” jobs in deregulation and infrastructure, and why she shed her Brummie accent
Figures revealed in parliamentary answers show number and length of contracts for temporary workers in some departments
Perm sec Bernadette Kelly sought direction from transport secretary Chris Grayling over funds for new road haulage and trailer registration systems
Civil Aviation Authority chief Andrew Haines announced as chief executive of the DfT-owned company
Former transport secretary criticises ‘bonanza for lawyers and consultants’ during five-month delay before line was renationalised
Auditors should be given full access to the accounts of the scheme after chief's £1.7m salary is revealed
Government will launch new London North Eastern Railway brand to run services after financial failure of operator Virgin-Stagecoach
PAC calls for review of rail franchising model but department hits back at “unbalanced” report
With nominations open for the Diversity and Inclusion Awards 2018, Tamsin Rutter speaks to winners from last year who helped challenge the menopause taboo, persuade 200 defence workers to identify as LGBT supporters, and ensure diverse input on counter-terrorism work
Former transport secretary Patrick McLoughlin says collapse of contract “was a big mistake” but prompted review of rail franchise system
DfT Lab develops machine learning prototype to sort parliamentary questions coming into the department
Unprecedented report makes demands of six departments and calls for better oversight to ‘prevent policy from working at cross-purposes’
Officials outlined changes to rail franchising and told MPs trade unions refused to engage over Govia Thameslink franchise
Transport Select Committee says failure has wider implications for rail franchising
Tailored review urges Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government to give garden city development corporation more financial freedom
Nationalising the service currently operated by Virgin Trains is one of two options for services after franchise “got its sums wrong”
Former Network Rail chief exec and Olympics infrastructure tsar will succeed Andrew Adonis on a permanent basis
David Lidington said it would not have been responsible for the government to bail out the firm that works on rail projects as well as managing prisons and providing school meals
Just five local authorities bid for cash from government infrastructure scheme designed to accelerate delivery of on-street power points
Whitehall update on English devolution sets out details of devolved funding areas in 2016-17
Watchdog says department could have to pay nation’s least punctual train operator tens of millions of pounds a year because of changes to its contract requirements
Transport department insists that franchise will continue to meet financial terms to 2020 and has paid more to Treasury than previous state-owned operator
Former infrastructure tsar and Cabinet minister says Brexit is sidelining other issues and claims half of civil servants believe government policy is ‘trashing the national interest’
At the end of 2017, we asked the UK's top civil servants to look back at the year, outline their goals for 2018 – and tell us what they cannot do Christmas without