Government Tax Profession

BIS director general Bernadette Kelly to fill Clare Moriarty’s role as rail director general at Department for Transport

Redundancy pay cap unveiled by ministers – but unions warn of impact on workforce management

Cabinet Office announces that Bill Crothers – who oversaw the set-up of the Crown Commercial Service (CCS) – is to leave post, with search for successor already underway

Simon McDonald, UK ambassador to Germany since 2010, to take up post as FCO's most senior official from September

Justice department to run policy fellowships to expand “pool of people” delivering extensive reform programme

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs appoints Emma Howard Boyd to agency

Union – which currently represents the most senior tiers of the civil service – launches new organisation aiming to expand into HEO and SEO grades

Energy secretary Amber Rudd calls time on household energy efficiency scheme

Committee chair warns change to rules ahead of Europe vote has "cast a shadow of doubt over the propriety of the process"

As the purse strings tighten, government departments are seeing the benefits of working together. Tim Gibson reports from a CSW roundtable that explored how best to make collaboration happen

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs appoints deputy as new chief of Drinking Water Inspectorate

Cabinet secretary says proposed purdah rule change is needed to eliminate legal uncertainty for ministers, and says civil service impartiality will not be undermined

Treasury says spending review - set for November 25 - will be a chance to "review the role of government"

Push for £20bn of departmental cuts begins today - with spending review conclusions to be set out on November 25

BIS and DfE urged to take "strategic" action over struggling colleges, while separate report confirms that the Skills Funding Agency's accounts have been qualified

Head of Troubled Families unit to chair review to try and ensure communities not left "left isolated or exposed to extremism"

PCS members in two-day walkout over "oppressive" Universal Credit working conditions, but department says plans in place for "smooth running" of the service

Former Treasury perm sec Lord Burns to review Freedom of Information laws and consider "safe space" argument, while Cabinet Office takes over responsibility for FOI from the Ministry of Justice

Letters published on Thursday night show that Cabinet Office perm sec sought rare ministerial direction over fresh grant to the charity, but Matt Hancock and Oliver Letwin say they had agreed "clear conditions" for the funding

Sir Michael Partridge given honorary degree from Middlesex University

Report by the spending watchdog says stronger central and local leadership "urgently required" to improve support for vulnerable young people

MoJ consults on plan to close 91 courts and tribunals and merge 31 more

Sir Simon Fraser expresses regret over lack of women on shortlist to succeed him as Foreign Office permanent secretary

Prime minister urges Whitehall officials to make communications "brief, simple, human and jargon-free"