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DfT to trigger Operation Brock on 28 October to prepare for Brexit disruption
Announcement comes as HMRC confirms it has registered 95,000 businesses for simplified import procedures
Civil Service Awards 2019: full shortlist revealed
Fifty-strong list of individuals and teams reveals those in the running for honours in the 14th annual Civil Service Awards
DfT ‘reviewing’ executive pay arrangements after Crossrail fiasco
Highways England, Network Rail and HS2 will be expected to justify performance-related-pay awards to ministers
PM launches cabinet committee on climate change
Johnson will chair panel to spearhead cross-departmental approach on environmental protection
Environment Agency sets itself net-zero emissions target
Agency chief says staff are “under no illusion about the scale of the challenge”
Exclusive interview: New Defra perm sec Tamara Finkelstein on Brexit, identity and making the weather
From the storm of no-deal Brexit preparation to the headwinds of regulatory reform, Tamara Finkelstein walked into a squall when she took on the top job at Defra. But she tells Beckie Smith she is...
PM launches cabinet committee on climate change
Johnson will chair panel to spearhead cross-departmental approach on environmental protection
What's changed? Boris Johnson's Brexit deal explained
Boris Johnson has hailed his new Brexit deal with the EU ahead of a parliamentary vote tomorrow. What’s changed since the last one?
Cabinet Office names head of new military veterans’ unit
Help for Heroes recovery director Retired Colonel David Richmond will take on cross-government role
Sedwill says 'lessons will be learned' after PM's police speech row
Shadow minister says Boris Johnson’s behaviour is a source of “unease” in civil service
Civil Service Awards 2019: full shortlist revealed
Fifty-strong list of individuals and teams reveals those in the running for honours in the 14th annual Civil Service Awards
Appointments watchdog launches hunt for new chief
Baroness Angela Browning set to complete five-year term at Acoba helm
What's changed? Boris Johnson's Brexit deal explained
Boris Johnson has hailed his new Brexit deal with the EU ahead of a parliamentary vote tomorrow. What’s changed since the last one?
Government agrees new Brexit deal with EU ahead of Saturday Commons vote
Prime minister announces deal reached, but government’s DUP allies indicate they may not back it
Seen, but not heard: should ex-civil servants keep schtum on current affairs?
Former officials have an increasingly public role in national debate – is that always a good thing? Suzannah Brecknell explores how retired mandarins balance their duty to contribute to the public...
Cabinet Office names head of new military veterans’ unit
Help for Heroes recovery director Retired Colonel David Richmond will take on cross-government role
DHSC has Brexit 'plan for every medicine' as it awards £25m door-to-door urgent delivery contracts
Freight service will transport medical supplies with short shelf lives like radioisotopes and human organs
Brexit ferries reboot: government signs £87m contracts to transport medicines
Government won't fly in medicines in first batch of contracts awarded through £300m post-Brexit framework
Roundtable: Rules of engagement
Jonathan Owen reports on a round table discussion exploring how government can adopt and exploit the potential of automation and artificial intelligence
Roundtable: Stimulating digital innovation
Technological change presents an opportunity for things to be done in a different way. Jonathan Owen reports on a round table where leading civil servants came together to work out how to go about...
Civil Service Awards 2019: full shortlist revealed
Fifty-strong list of individuals and teams reveals those in the running for honours in the 14th annual Civil Service Awards
Sedwill says 'lessons will be learned' after PM's police speech row
Shadow minister says Boris Johnson’s behaviour is a source of “unease” in civil service
Ministers reject call for ‘new’ National School of Government
Response to PACAC recommendation says single institution would not meet needs of a modern civil service
'Designating services as digital is increasingly a hindrance' – DfE's Emma Stace on working across organisational boundaries
As the Department for Education refashions itself as a delivery department, its chief digital officer Emma Stace tells Civil Service World she is determined to make digital ‘just the way...
Ex-minister laments ‘unfairly low’ staff pay at DCMS
Tracey Crouch also details Whitehall push-back over fixed-odds betting terminals, Brexit's opportunity cost and ‘complete pain in the arse’ Matt Hancock
Abbey service celebrates life of Jeremy Heywood
Laughter and tears as prime ministers, former colleagues and a pop star pay tribute to late cabinet secretary
I was a civil servant, now I’m a... director of strategy for a charity
In the latest of our series about civil service leavers, we meet former deputy principal private secretary to the prime minister Ed Whiting, who is now director of strategy for the Wellcome Trust...