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Review warns that continuing restraint will reduce public sector wage differential to lowest level in 20 years.

Longstanding top scientist at the environment department heading for the exit, in move Defra says comes at "natural end" of his fixed term

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

Pact pledges “appropriate” pay for new starters and protects salaries of existing staff members who retrain under apprenticeship proposals

Watchdog’s anger follows government response to committee’s Grimstone Review findings

Fledgling ministry offers £90,000 a year for senior officer to deliver “single device” for international trade staff to work with

Union calls for independent review of pay as it warns that maintaining a 1% cap on pay rises is “unsustainable”

Continuing pay cap would mean up to 20% drop in average civil service earnings by 2020, union analysis reveals

After decades of reviews aimed at driving down the civil service's running costs, Sir Michael Barber, former chief of Blair's delivery unit, is hailed by one Whitehall-watcher as "much less celebrity and much more focused on getting the job done"

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

Internal appointments come ahead of expansion of the public spending watchdog’s remit