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Civil service chief executive says first 1,800 specialists will join the profession later this year

Standards watchdog raps former foreign secretary for breach of Ministerial Code

Natural Resources Wales has had its accounts qualified three times over “unlawful” contracts with a sawmill

Government ‘has no real sense’ of scale of problem parliamentary committee warns

Information Commissioner orders MoJ to disclose fines dished out to private-sector operators and cost of HMP Birmingham riot

PACAC describes Manzoni and Treasury admissions on PFI as ‘shocking’

Tax agency says it demanded shutdown of 20,000 “malicious” sites over past 12 months

David Bunting to leave Border Delivery Group to take on general counsel role on temporary basis

New director Lisa Osofsky insists plan to fold SFO into National Crime Agency has been dropped

Gill Aitken announces departure as tax department flags up success in battling online fraudsters

Lesley Titcomb announces "difficult personal decision" after Carillion and BHS flak

MPs ask David Lidington to explore whether beefed-up powers and more resources are required as a matter of urgency

Disclosure and Barring Service modernisation programme is four years late and likely to cost £229m more than planned say MPs

Parliamentary report calls for better intelligence sharing between departments and stronger political guidance for FCO and HMRC

Changes to so-called IR35 rules for “off-payroll” workers boost coffers as ministers mull roll-out to private firms 

Two select committees back the government’s decision not to bail out outsourcing firm and let it fall into liquidation

NAO report says spad pushed for Steve Lamey to be hired despite civil servants’ objections

Department kicks off early-engagement exercise for new system of managing problems

Treasury Committee chair seeks assurances on tax agency’s “approach to international cooperation in the fight against economic crime”

Three months after the collapse of Carillion, organisation says outsourcing firms’ operating models require greater scrutiny

Public Accounts Committee tells ministry to up its game on keeping track of schools operators at risk of going broke

Information commissioner Elizabeth Denham confirms warrant has been served on UK company

MPs find that warnings of poor governance were not picked up for local enterprise partnership covering Greater Cambridge and Greater Peterborough

Independent report says Northamptonshire has irreparably dysfunctional organisational structure and should be split up