Policy

New prime minister wants new Spad pay to be capped at £72,000 a year unless signed off by Number 10

Institute for Government's latest "Responsiveness Ranking" paints a mixed picture of the way departments respond to requests for information

Latest bid to change the culture of the civil service sees 4,000 top officials asked questions on their background

Chair of the government’s Social Security Advisory Committee says Budget and Autumn Statement deadlines have "regularly resulted in secondary legislation being presented to us without meaningful analysis of impact or interactions with other parts of the benefit system"

Former Labour minister Nick Raynsford, a key player in setting up the Greater London Authority, tells CSW that civil servants and ministers are still reluctant to let go of powers

Downing Street sources cool on Boris Johnson and Liam Fox's tussle over departmental responsibility

Caroline Normand set to join Which?, while other moves see the government name Lowell Goddard’s abuse inquiry replacement and Charlie Bean lined up for the Budget Responsibility Committee

MPs call on Department for Communities and Local Government, Department for Work and Pensions and Department for Education to develop new inclusion programmes particularly targeting women

 Vice-chancellor of Sheffield Hallam University to lead body that will grade higher education institutions on the quality of their teaching

Exclusive: Unions seek to put brake on revised redundancy rules negotiations in wake of EU referendum

The Land Registry "must remain an essential arm of the state", says Conservative committee chair Bernard Jenkin, amid doubts over whether the government's privatisation plans will go ahead

IFS deputy director Carl Emmerson among new appointments to Social Security Advisory Committee

Think tank calls for stronger sector-wide systems to support and learn from failing organisations

Former Scottish government and DCLG perm sec says public sector workforce has a "subsidiary and problematic status" in variants of the New Public Management model in vogue with politicians since Margaret Thatcher

Director Mark Fisher flags OCS’s connections with new home and says latest government restructuring is “vital”

Commercial Standards are getting an overhaul, the Cabinet Office confirms, but wider "Blueprints" are still not finished

DfE says introduction of the new Schools Funding Formula will now start in 2018-19 to allow for further consultation

Former Department for Work and Pensions permanent secretary Sir Leigh Lewis calls for rethink of the "crazy" civil service grading structure

With Matt Hancock leaving the government as part of new prime minister Theresa May's frontbench shake-up, CSW's colleagues on Dods People have put together a profile of Ben Gummer, the man who replaces him as minister for the Cabinet Office

New prime minister brings former Home Office Spads Fiona Hill and Nick Timothy back to the fold

Former special adviser to universities minister David Willetts says moving higher education policy to the Department for Education creates an "extra layer of uncertainty" at a time when institutional memory is needed

Hancock replaced by ex-junior health minister Ben Gummer in key job determining civil service policy

The new prime minister Theresa May has triggered a major overhaul of Whitehall. CSW has full the details on what the merger of the energy and business departments will mean for staff and policy

Minute-by-minute coverage of David Cameron's final prime minister's questions, and Theresa May's first day at Number 10, via CSW's colleagues on PoliticsHome.com