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Institute for Government says Department for International Trade's remit is at odds with comments from new prime minister Theresa May

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

IFS deputy director Carl Emmerson among new appointments to Social Security Advisory Committee

Key government-as-a-platform service moves a step closer

Former minister for the Cabinet Office also tells the Centre for Public Impact that he regrets not doing more to iron out civil servants' frustrations with technology

Martin Donnelly and Alex Chisholm leading the newly-created department as joint permanent secretaries

New director Crystal Akass and operations lead Jo Rodrigues will report to chief people officer Rupert McNeil

HMRC's customer service director general says she is "confident that what the Public Accounts Committee are suggesting won't happen"

New service charter sets out what the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman expects from departments and NHS trusts

Think tank calls for stronger sector-wide systems to support and learn from failing organisations

Former Scottish government and DCLG perm sec says public sector workforce has a "subsidiary and problematic status" in variants of the New Public Management model in vogue with politicians since Margaret Thatcher

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

Unions welcome commitment to change controversial “guided distribution” system ahead of pilot results

Director Mark Fisher flags OCS’s connections with new home and says latest government restructuring is “vital”

Civil Service Commission says Louise Haigh's call for shortlists to be published in a bid to shed more light on the male/female split would have a "deterrent effect on potential future applicants"

New research from the Civil Service Commission finds that while BME civil servants represented more than a tenth of all applicants to senior jobs, they made up less than 5% of those chosen for interview

Department creates new unit at Marsham Street under stewardship of former chief technology officer Sarah Wilkinson

Spending watchdog says bosses failure to declare National Insurance Fund payments kept departmental revenue spending in the black

Reports claim Whitehall has ethical concerns about former prime minister's "brazen" request for peerages and other honours for former aides

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

Watchdog says "less transactional" process is required and criticises Single Departmental Plans for failing to meet transparency goals

DfE says introduction of the new Schools Funding Formula will now start in 2018-19 to allow for further consultation