Transport

Watchdog says disruption cannot be ruled out despite health secretary Matt Hancock's guarantee

Contract signed as DfT says disruption caused by "lack of trader readiness" could slow down imports of medicines via some ports

The government quickly became the UK’s fifth largest airline following the closure of Monarch Airlines. After winning the project delivery excellence award at the 2018 Civil Service Awards, Eirik Pitkethly told Civil Service World earlier this year how the Department for Transport did it

DfT says freight services will avoid Dover, Folkestone or Barking, where Brexit disruption is likely

All this week, CSW brings you a snapshot of progress on the Government Major Project Portfolio across four categories: military capability, ICT, infrastructure and construction, and transformation and service delivery. This section looks at some of Britain’s biggest building projects

All "non-compliant" vehicles without correct paperwork to be turned away at some ports, leak reveals

Warning comes as freight association head says there has been “too little debate" about longer-term post-Brexit border plans

Latest study also charts nosediving relations between government and parliament

Bernadette Kelly writes to NAO to provide departmental support for its inquiry into scheme as transport sec sets out cost hikes

Move follows anger over working conditions and overtime payments, says PCS

Ten-member team to report on case for controversial £55.7bn project by December

Providers told supplies could take up to five days to deliver – up from three days set out in February guidance

Virgin Trains, which has run the line since privatisation, loses out to new operator including Italian state-owned firm

£300m spending cap accounts for possible frequency of “disruption events”, including border delays

Government rethinks approach after DfT's attempt to secure freight capacity for first Brexit deadline 'cost £85m'

Infrastructure and Projects Authority reveals Brexit may be improving project delivery across government through more efficient ways of working

Damning report says department has yet to “get a grip” on the troubled trans-capital rail line

Benefits agreed in £33m Eurotunnel settlement “little more than window dressing”, MPs say

Nick Smallwood replaces Tony Meggs at joint Treasury and Cabinet Office agency

Lidington pledges government will only pay for capacity it uses after £50m payout to scrap no-deal ferry contracts

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

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

Does it really matter who represents your department at stakeholder meetings – or whether you’ve done a secondment outside Whitehall? Yes, says insider-turned-outsider John Dowie, who moved to work for First Bus after a 27-year civil service career. Here, sharing his observations of government from the other side, he explains why