Commercial

Report commissioned by the Public Accounts Committee finds no repeat of outsourcing firm’s failings with GP data service

Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs committee chairman says opening up civil service recruitment to outsiders is welcome, but a "second-best objective" when organisation should be building its own capability

McKibbin says it has been "an honour and a privilege" to lead the separate Northern Ireland Civil Service since 2011

PCS union says plan to move organisation employing more than 4,000 civil servants into the private sector appears to have been "quietly dropped" after it fails to appear in the new Neighbourhood Planning Bill

Council chiefs urge greater say in DWP's replacement for the Work Programme

Confidence, and a more commercial attitude towards project delivery, leads to better outcomes, FCO Services chief executive Danny Payne tells CSW

The Land Registry "must remain an essential arm of the state", says Conservative committee chair Bernard Jenkin, amid doubts over whether the government's privatisation plans will go ahead

26% of competitions overseen by Whitehall's jobs watchdog saw private sector candidates appointed in 2015-16, new data show

Major speech by the head of the public spending watchdog warns ministers to stop asking the civil service to run on "perpetual overload"

Commercial Standards are getting an overhaul, the Cabinet Office confirms, but wider "Blueprints" are still not finished

"Senior cadre" of specialists will sit outside of the familiar Whitehall hierarchy as part of efforts to give them a more clearly-defined career structure

Central procurement agency announces that it is to phase out reliance on managed service fees