Operational Delivery

Transport secretary Patrick McLoughlin appoints TfL commissioner Sir Peter Hendy as new chair of Network Rail as agency is blamed for delays to rail improvements

Business secretary tells MPs that flagship coalition project will be moved out of the public sector to allow it to borrow more and "grow its business"

Special report: Ministers made bold promises about the impact of mutualisation on civil service pensions. But as Matt Foster reports, administrator MyCSP has left some retired officials tearing their hair out

Report by the NAO says departments have often failed to set out rationale for use of payment-by-results mechanisms

Study by the Institute for Fiscal Studies raises concern over private sector's ability to absorb public sector job losses

Former non-exec Dame Sue Street says justice secretary's move "not in the spirit of good governance"

Security review calls for “comprehensive and comprehensible new law” to govern security agencies’ surveillance powers

Independent Commission for Aid Impact says DfID’s aid measurement focuses too much on short term financial results over long term ‘transformative change’

National Audit Office report says department consulted carefully on Care Act, but sounds warning over whether local authorities will be able to cope with demand

GDS confirms Digital Services framework will be overhauled after user feedback

Austin Mitchell reviews a new book examining the impact of decades of reform to central government 

Number 10 spokesperson denies new units tracking policy progress are a "judgement on the civil service"

Report by the National Audit Office says Department for Work and Pensions must get better at spotting potential problems with big schemes

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

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

Department for Work and Pensions to be led by Iain Duncan Smith again as Cameron fleshes out new government

Former education secretary Michael Gove to take on justice secretary role while Nicky Morgan stays at DfE

New poll of health workers by Dods Research finds Labour most trusted on NHS, but there is doubt over the main parties' policy pledges

Michael Barber joins former Maryland governor Martin O'Malley at event on delivery co-hosted by the Cabinet Office, Centre for Public Impact and Institute for Government

Thirty three companies take the lion’s share of central government procurement spending, between them receiving roughly £10bn of Whitehall money each year. But who are they? Do they truly understand the public sector? And do civil servants trust them? Rebecca Sims-Robinson crunches the numbers.

Exclusive: Labour peer in charge of preparing party for government says he wants to avoid "civil service wars" associated with creating, scrapping and merging departments, but eyes greater role for Number 10

Policy-makers around the world are using open data to bolster their development programmes, says Liz Carolan of the Open Data Institute

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

Former Scope and Mencap IT director Conall Bullock takes on newly-created Cabinet Office role, reporting directly to permanent secretary Richard Heaton