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Information Commissioner says “public interest” in naming representatives from US healthcare firms overrides Freedom of Information exemption

Local Government Association says Brexit talks should not simply return legislative responsibilites straight to Westminster

Prime minister says civil servants are "impartial" and "hard-working" after criticism from Ukip

Role of the civil service is to "make sure that we prepare for an incoming prime minister to take decisions", Number 10 says – as constitutional experts flag up a lack of contingency planning for a Brexit vote

Victorious “Leave” campaigner – and chair of Parliament's Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee – tells CSW that there should be a new trade directorate and a rebranding of the entire Business department to reflect the nation's departure from the EU

Exclusive: Former head of the civil service Lord Kerslake tells CSW that key departments tasked with making Brexit work have been "stripped back" in recent years and will have to have an injection of resources

University College London academics spearhead drive for independent inquiry into both sides’ “misinformation” and “outright falsehood”

As Britain heads to the polls to vote on the the UK’s membership of the European Union, the result seems impossible to predict. But many are asking what, in practical terms, would happen if the country votes to leave. Here, Dr Alan Renwick of the UCL Constitution Unit gives a point-by-point overview of what the road to Brexit might look like

Bernard Jenkin tells CSW that hastily-arranged statement outside Downing Street goes against the spirit of rules designed to stop the use of official resources during the EU referendum campaign

Exclusive CSW/Dods Research poll finds Tory MPs are much more confident than Labour and the SNP that Whitehall has resouces to deal with ramifications of a vote to leave the European Union

Rise in civil service employment over first three months of 2016 driven by growth in large departments – but organisation still smaller than this time last year

MPs on the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs (PACAC) committee are told that the century-old Haldane convention has been undermined by decades-long shift towards managerialism in the civil service