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Civil service culture is perceived to be one of the biggest barriers to digital change, a survey carried out by techUK reveals 

New minister for the Cabinet Office Matt Hancock has set out his stall for five more years of civil service reform. Here's our full report on how it unfolded

In full: "Making the civil service work for modern Britain", Minister for the Cabinet Office Matt Hancock's May 22 speech to the Institute for Government on civil service reform

First minister Nicola Sturgeon appoints new top civil servant to Scottish government

Tom Karsten – a Royal Navy real admiral – is named as the new CEO of Cefas

Civil service chief executive John Manzoni points to end of the "Francis Maude era" in his first speech to the FDA union

FDA union general secretary Dave Penman warns that civil servants have been left "undervalued, exhausted and unclear about the future"

Prime minister David Cameron has announced the re-appointment of Cabinet ministers George Osborne, Theresa May, Philip Hammond and Michael Fallon

Tom Read leaves chief technology officer job at the Cabinet Office as CTO brief is rolled into new chief digital officer role

Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude tells CSW that performance management should move from a system where managers categorise set proportions of staff as performing well, acceptably and poorly to one where employees are individually ranked best to worst

Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg promises above-inflation payrise for public sector from 2019 if party holds "balance of power"

Foreign Office announces that its permanent secretary Simon Fraser is to leave Whitehall at the end of July