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Former Cabinet Office minister told MPs he became disillusioned with civil service skills and repeats call for basic training

Department for Education insists process was followed with regard to Steve Lamey, who alleges a “witch hunt”

Association of Revenue and Customs warns government not rely on “goodwill” to deliver £155m recovery package with no progress on pay

Top government officials detail list of changes to 85 IT systems at the UK border required because of Brexit

Home Affairs Committee report slams "completely unconvincing" Home Office plans to appoint just 300 new border staff

Senior officials defend rationale for new GPS tags but admit major failings of project now delayed by more than five years 

Former Post Office and MoJ man Neil Hayward replaces Peter Gregory at DfT firm

HMRC staff reviewed 73,000 stopped or amended tax-credit claims and closed a further 181,000 cases after meltdown of outsourced fraud-and-error checking contract

Public Accounts Committee to question tax officials today while union calls for halt of office closures plan 

Sir Chris Wormald told by PAC chair to provide examples of best practice to inform Treasury’s decision to link pay cap rises to productivity 

National Audit Office warns shortage of key commercial and cost assurance experts could jeopardise £1.7bn savings target from non-competitive contracts

Steve Allen to leave government-owned company building new rail link after auditors slam unauthorised redundancy payments