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Institute for Government says department has to put officials’ accountability at the heart of new review

Cabinet Office-based post is ‘a high-profile role at the centre of key strategic decision making’

Concerns over statutory work as hundreds of civil servants are redeployed

Any move to add regulatory functions onto the work of departments would require assurances over the independence of oversight, says think tank

Public Accounts Committee chides department for not going ahead with police funding formula review despite agreeing re-examination was needed

With no evidence to support the claim that benefit sanctions help get more people into work, the committee said they were 'nothing other than arbitrarily punitive'

Transport committee approves fomer airport chief as rail regulator chair

Response to select committee provides an update on how government is responding to liquidation of major outsourcer

FCO honours staff association co-founder who left “an important legacy to LGBT+ diplomats”

Cabinet Office admits its initial bid to fill “probably the biggest and most important security job in the UK today” was "unsuccessful"

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

Public Accounts Committee points to rising fraud and error projections amid ‘daunting workload’

Review by Sir Alex Allan criticised Hugh Ind for “less than satisfactory performance” before immigration DG was moved out of Home Office

Attacks on civil servants “sawing away at the legs of the institutions which keep us free", Gummer says

Foreign secretary confirms move to recruit from outside government as part of “the biggest expansion of Britain’s diplomatic network for a generation”

Rob Thompson takes position as department’s technology leader after four years at DWP

New centre should build a network of people ready to take on top jobs in order to help leaders to drive innovation and improvement across services 

Alan Evans joins HMRC at a "critical time for the department", says permanent secretary Jon Thompson

Foreign secretary also reveals plan to hire 1,000 new diplomats to boost Foreign Office capability and boost to the number of language courses

Sir David Wright appointed as chair designate, with Electoral Commission head Claire Bassett named as chief executive designate

Hammond will also expands off-payroll working rules to the private sector

Move to improve management of existing private finance deals comes as Philip Hammond rules out signing any more PFI deals

Some companies were paid nearly £500,000 for 'central EU exit consultancy'

Paper obtained by GMB union also reveals an additional two-year pay freeze was considered in 2015.