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