Operational Delivery

Major business lobby group sets out stall ahead of government-wide Spending Review – with shared services, digitisation, and payment-by-results top of the agenda

PCS and Prospect members at the Natural Environment Research Council take half-day action over 1% cap and progression pay move

PM highlights achievements of Whitehall's digital team as he argues government has "moral imperative" to "streamline" public services

New watchdog the Single Source Regulations Office seeks to overhaul MoD deals with single-source contractors

Care Quality Commission chief David Behan tells NHS Innovation Expo that public reassurance vital after data on patients attending sexual health treatment centre accidentally shared

Outgoing digital chief Mike Bracken cites "stresses and strains" of the job – but says Government as a Platform plans still being assessed

What’s life like at the sharp end of public services? A modern foreign languages teacher tells Sarah Aston about the pros and cons of changes to the schools system

Public and Commercial Services union makes "strong representations" to tax authority about "timescale and process" of 90-day talks, which department says may result in compulsory redundancies

Ofqual’s chief regulator announces plans to step down in February 2016

Charity has reportedly told the government it will close in spite of latest £3m Cabinet Office grant

BIS director general Bernadette Kelly to fill Clare Moriarty’s role as rail director general at Department for Transport

Cabinet Office announces that Bill Crothers – who oversaw the set-up of the Crown Commercial Service (CCS) – is to leave post, with search for successor already underway