Policy

Senior Foreign Office figure will become top aide to prime minister

Resolution Foundation flags potential £50bn public spending gulf ahead of scheduled cuts to departmental budgets

Ministers accused of having to bow to demands to keep manufacturing jobs in Britain after Brexit

The Institute for Government says budget projections must not provide “cover for misleading intentions”

Department-sponsored study flags move as part of wider reform of franchising system

HM Treasury passed most bills in 2016-17 session, followed by DCMS, Home Office and DfE

Local Government Association asks all parties to commit to further devo rollout in their election manifestos

Shift in responsibility during staff reshuffle creates questions over civil service reform, says IfG

MPs tell DCLG and DWP to commission research on leveraging housing benefit payments to ease the housing crisis

Academics say giving NHS patients access to unapproved medication was a “significant expenditure” that delivered “no meaningful value”

Civil servant who led Troubled Families programme to leave Whitehall to take up roles in voluntary sector and academia