Government Tax Profession

Nick Smallwood replaces Tony Meggs at joint Treasury and Cabinet Office agency

Cabinet secretary says that leaks are ‘incredibly damaging for the overall integrity of the civil service’

Site due to go live next year

Select committee scrutiny comes after CSW reveals repayments being demanded from retired officials

Regulator publishes Openness by Design three-year plan

Appeal had led to delay in revelation of the civil service pension scheme

Hunt also unveils plans for cabinet taskforce to keep pressure on no-deal planning as rival Boris Johnson told to scrap Whitehall departments

Department floats two-year contact to support delivery of tech and infrastructure

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

Latest move comes after Institute for Government warns government may never be as ready for no deal as it was in March

Report commissioned by the department says civil servants were ‘rightly appalled by what happened’ but this was ‘often juxtaposed with a self-justification’

Problems affected ‘a very small number’ of the 350,000 businesses now signed up for digital platform, according to perm sec

Tweaks for 2019 include Public Value Framework sections but IfG warns openness project is still very much a work in progress

Meg Hillier also queries “surprising” lack of ministerial directions for some Brexit-related spending

Health department says it has done no impact assessment of how no-deal Brexit would affect disabled people

Department chiefs twice as likely to have attended a fee-paying school than a comprehensive, education charity says

Office for Disability Issues expansion hailed as a "bold statement from the government" to address injustices

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

Home Office to pay extra £82m to Motorola as contract for service roll-out extended

National Audit Office calls for ‘systematic approach’ to assessing capability and effectiveness of ODA spending

MoJ rejects call to review Transforming Rehabilitation reforms in long-delayed response to 2018 Justice Committee report

£940,000 bill does not include VAT or cost of departmental officials' time

Union criticises government’s £46.9m spent with supplier in 2018

Department highlights training of mental health first aiders globally as part of its efforts to improve further