Government Tax Profession

Immigration interpreters may refuse work over Home Office plans to change terms

Senior Department for Transport official – who has served as deputy director for high speed rail strategy – will head up George Osborne's Commission

Deal confirms Spending Review's projected average cut of 6.7% for councils as they move towards full localised funding

Lord Strathclyde recommends new law to ensure that the red benches can only ask the Commons to “think again” 

Public sector union leader re-elected for another five years as general secretary

Latest workforce data from the Office for National Statistics shows civil service shrank by 1.4% in Q3

National Audit Office finds trust deficits becoming “normal practice” 

NAO research finds there are now 218 companies in government, but over half are not listed in official sources

Former head of the civil service tells Labour's own FoI review that intentional leaks to the press show "double standard" in Whitehall over the transparency law

KPMG and Hay Group win first two lots as Cabinet Office makes changes to the way departments buy training courses

Permanent secretary announces she is to step down from her role after 25 years in the civil service

Opposition tables a new amendment to the EU Referendum Bill that would grant 16 and 17-year-olds the vote in the public poll

Former head of the civil service says "public will draw their own conclusions" about any attempt to curb the transparency law

New appointments in the civil service, UK politics, and public affairs, via our colleagues on Dods People

Home Affairs Select Committee issues scathing report on errors in police funding overhaul – as department promises to learn lessons

Pressure on Care Quality Commission resources is showing through report errors, say MPs, as CQC chief David Behan (pictured) says regulator has been "working hard to improve"

Register of members' interests shows that Labour MP gave lectures through Civil Service Learning scheme before becoming the party's leader

DWP says it will meet the cost of redundancies stemming from decision not to move Housing Benefit staff into the department when benefits are merged

After a scathing report on problems with the digital overhaul of the system for paying EU subsidies, spending watchdogs Meg Hillier and Amyas Morse criticise behaviour that was "distressing to staff and visibly confrontational"

Liam Maxwell announces that DVLA's chief technology officer is heading back to the centre of government in January

Plans to grant councils power to raise money for social care could lead to big regional variations, warn care sector leaders

Welsh first minister says there is “no real machinery for a regular heads of government meeting” – as Silk Commission chair reveals he considered calling for separate civil service.

Civil service chief executive John Manzoni says government "making good" on promise to open up public sector procurement to smaller firms

Rosemary Agnew says open data should be seen as complementing Freedom of Information, as she warns UK government commission is a “threat to FoI in the UK"