Policy

Johnson commits MHCLG and Home Office to legislating for first-phase report recommendations

Host of former ministers to also stand down from Commons at December election

MPs sceptical over "government’s poor track record in delivering promised new prison places"

Civil Service Commission event also hears how MHCLG used secondments to help boost diversity

Department looks to bring in specialist team

Union says move is “height of hypocrisy” for ministers who legislated to make industrial action more difficult

NAO finds £32.7m of public spending so far, but BEIS says full calculation of costs to back shale gas extraction would not yet be "meaningful"

Policy contains measures including drone-takedown unit and drive to promote design standards

Institute for Government says legislation timetable doesn't allow time for MPs to properly scrutinise deal

Boris Johnson has hailed his new Brexit deal with the EU ahead of a parliamentary vote tomorrow. What’s changed since the last one?

The DExEU permanent secretary considers the similarities between making music and making government work

Former officials have an increasingly public role in national debate – is that always a good thing? Suzannah Brecknell explores how retired mandarins balance their duty to contribute to the public discourse with the self-enforced code of caution