Operational Delivery

Emergency meeting lays out steps ministers could take if outbreak spreads, including calling up retired doctors to help staff hospitals

Emergency committee meeting planned after PM visits hospital to discuss preparations for treating virus

Serco Health director Abi Tierney will lead HM Passport Office and UK Visas and Immigration

FDA union says divorcing spads from ministers means the role essentially becomes a policy adviser recruited outside impartiality rules

UK2070 commission calls for 20-year commitment to Shared Prosperity Fund and radical decentralisation of funding

IFS sets out Budget bind in analysis of public finances ahead of 11 March statement

Digital department also reveals work to “understand and address the issues with legacy IT in government”

Site in Sunningdale will be turned into homes and retirement apartments

Department’s second perm sec will be responsible for HMRC’s operations and deliver transformation plan

CDO will build on work to overhaul internal systems

Emma Howard Boyd calls on new watchdog to engage widely and not focus “just at those seen as doing ‘environment’”

Cabinet Office team working with ministries to identify roles ‘that do not meet our criteria for requiring a London base’

Proportion of money spent with small firms continues to rebound

PM rules out accepting EU rules in exchange for post-Brexit trade deal as both sides set out negotiating plans

Move comes ahead of forthcoming government reshuffle and plan to make post ministerial role

Grant Shapps vows to 'undo the damage' of 1960s Beeching rail cuts with £500m fund to reopen axed lines

Around one third of UK citizens said they had looked at EU exit info, a figure "broadly unchanged” during the campaign, say auditors

Boris Johnson to take personal charge of post-Brexit trade talks supported by a 'small and agile' new unit

Plans for reform also include consistent use of cross-disciplinary teams in departments as contracts are signed

Move would reverse policy set out by Theresa May

Awards champion hails work of civil servants at start of a week-long programme to recognise winners

Ten senior officials with Brexit responsibility moved jobs in 2018/19 despite year being a high water mark of EU exit prep, think tank finds

Agreement in line with ‘commitment to affording meaningful pay awards for staff, particularly colleagues at the lower end of the pay range’ says agency

New award will recognise bodies that have adopted Office for Statistics Regulation’s trustworthiness, quality and value pledges outside official stats