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    Project Delivery

    Keep up-to-date with the latest Project Delivery news from Civil Service World
    Civil Service Awards 2025 shortlist announced
    22 Oct Project Delivery

    Civil Service Awards 2025 shortlist announced

    Home Office is most-shortlisted department, with seven nominations at this year's 20th anniversary ceremony
    by Tevye Markson
    Building Digital UK to become unit within DSIT in latest quango closure
    15 Oct Project Delivery
    Building Digital UK to become unit within DSIT in latest quango closure
    Weak oversight and overly complex design: DESNZ criticised for insulation failings
    15 Oct Project Delivery
    Weak oversight and overly complex design: DESNZ criticised for insulation failings
    UK Security Vetting hits new modernisation milestone with move to cloud Exclusive
    10 Oct Project Delivery
    UK Security Vetting hits new modernisation milestone with move to cloud
    Cabinet Office minister Matt Hancock: government to vacate 75% of sites by 2023
    03 Feb 2016 Project Delivery
    Cabinet Office minister Matt Hancock: government to vacate 75% of sites by 2023

    Government hails major savings on government estate since 2010 and sets out plans to go further - but the PCS union warns "vital local services" will be undermined


    BIS Sheffield office closure: Business secretary Sajid Javid hits back as Labour’s Louise Haigh slams “farcical” announcement
    02 Feb 2016 Project Delivery
    BIS Sheffield office closure: Business secretary Sajid Javid hits back as Labour’s Louise Haigh slams “farcical” announcement

    Shadow Cabinet Office minister Louise Haigh says BIS showed "lack of empathy" in St Paul’s Place closure announcement


    Civil service chief John Manzoni: Rise in Whitehall consultancy spend shows need to tackle “critical skills shortage”
    01 Feb 2016 Project Delivery
    Civil service chief John Manzoni: Rise in Whitehall consultancy spend shows need to tackle “critical skills shortage”

    Reducing reliance on consultants and temps will require "much more fundamental workforce transformation" than seen so far, civil service chief John Manzoni tells MPs. But he says the organisation is "on the road" to addressing the problem


    Kids Company collapse: ministers should not have over-ruled civil service advice over £3m public grant, say MPs
    01 Feb 2016 Project Delivery
    Kids Company collapse: ministers should not have over-ruled civil service advice over £3m public grant, say MPs

    Report by the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee says that final round of funding to the beleaguered youth charity — subject to a warning from then-Cabinet Office perm sec Richard Heaton — "should not have been authorised"


    Independence of new major projects watchdog is 'unimpeachable', says chief exec Tony Meggs
    20 Jan 2016 Project Delivery
    Independence of new major projects watchdog is "unimpeachable", says chief exec Tony Meggs

    Chief executive of the Infrastructure and Projects Watchdog seeks to reassure MPs after merger with Treasury unit – and John Manzoni says new organisation will have more "teeth"


    Eurostar sale shows government still 'undervaluing assets', warns public accounts commitee
    20 Jan 2016 Project Delivery
    Eurostar sale shows government still "undervaluing assets", warns public accounts commitee

    Report by MPs says Eurostar sale was managed well but that government used "over cautious assumptions" and should do more to build in-house corporate finance knowledge


    Cabinet Office 'reviewing big government IT deals' as expiry draws near
    18 Jan 2016 Project Delivery
    Cabinet Office "reviewing big government IT deals" as expiry draws near

    Project "Ocean Liner" reportedly mulls insourcing and says there is "no consistent advice" for dealing with IT challenges across government


    HMRC chief Lin Homer: office closures won't lead to 'cliff edge' of expertise
    13 Jan 2016 Project Delivery
    HMRC chief Lin Homer: office closures won't lead to "cliff edge" of expertise

    Tax authority's chief executive Dame Lin Homer is grilled on plans to cut HMRC's office network from 170 smaller offices to 13 regional centres


    Fall in Whitehall consultancy spend going into reverse — NAO
    13 Jan 2016 Project Delivery
    Fall in Whitehall consultancy spend going into reverse — NAO

    New report by the National Audit Office spending watchdog finds that while departmental spending on consultants and temporary staff has plummeted over last five years, latest figures indicate a “short-term reduction rather than a sustainable strategy”


    NAO: DWP fit-to-work contractor 'still not meeting expected performance levels'
    08 Jan 2016 Project Delivery
    NAO: DWP fit-to-work contractor "still not meeting expected performance levels"

    National Audit Office says Department for Work and Pensions has improved oversight of Employment and Support Allowance tests - but warns of "perpetuating cycle of optimistic targets, contractual underperformance and costly recovery"


    NAO highlights continued turnover of major project leaders across government
    06 Jan 2016 Project Delivery
    NAO highlights continued turnover of major project leaders across government

    National Audit Office raises concerns over the number of transformation projects government is undertaking, as report notes that over a third of major projects due to be delivered this Parliament may be unachievable


    Home Office to take on responsibility for fire and rescue services
    06 Jan 2016 Project Delivery
    Home Office to take on responsibility for fire and rescue services

    Emergency services will be encouraged to share back office functions under plans outlined by the Home Office


    New Year's Honours 2016: HMRC chief Lin Homer made a Dame
    31 Dec 2015 Project Delivery
    New Year's Honours 2016: HMRC chief Lin Homer made a Dame

    Chief executive of the tax authority awarded in New Year's Honours list - while DWP perm sec Robert Devereux is knighted


    DfT's Phil Graham stepping up to lead National Infrastructure Commission
    21 Dec 2015 Project Delivery
    DfT's Phil Graham stepping up to lead National Infrastructure Commission

    Senior Department for Transport official – who has served as deputy director for high speed rail strategy – will head up George Osborne's Commission


    Watchdog paints stark picture of NHS finances
    16 Dec 2015 Project Delivery
    Watchdog paints stark picture of NHS finances

    National Audit Office finds trust deficits becoming “normal practice” 


    Rural payments: 'childish' tensions between GDS and Defra laid bare at committee hearing
    09 Dec 2015 Project Delivery
    Rural payments: "childish" tensions between GDS and Defra laid bare at committee hearing

    After a scathing report on problems with the digital overhaul of the system for paying EU subsidies, spending watchdogs Meg Hillier and Amyas Morse criticise behaviour that was "distressing to staff and visibly confrontational"


    Social care services still at risk despite Spending Review boost, sector warns
    09 Dec 2015 Project Delivery
    Social care services still at risk despite Spending Review boost, sector warns

    Plans to grant councils power to raise money for social care could lead to big regional variations, warn care sector leaders


    Civil service pay hindering recruitment of digital staff, say Whitehall tech chiefs
    02 Dec 2015 Project Delivery
    Civil service pay hindering recruitment of digital staff, say Whitehall tech chiefs

    National Audit Office survey finds concern among government's digital leaders over their ability to recruit and retain staff – but there's support for many Cabinet Office intiatives to sharpen tech skills


    New 'specialist' pay scale, Single Departmental Plans, and an academy for future Whitehall leaders – eight things we learned from John Manzoni and Matt Hancock's latest grilling by MPs
    30 Nov 2015 Project Delivery
    New 'specialist' pay scale, Single Departmental Plans, and an academy for future Whitehall leaders – eight things we learned from John Manzoni and Matt Hancock's latest grilling by MPs

    New 'specialist' payscale to help recruitment, staff cuts at the Cabinet Office, Single Departmental Plans, the future of civil service reform, details on a brand new leadership academy – as the civil service chief executive and minister for the Cabinet Office face MPs, CSW tries to keep up...


    Outgoing defence procurement chief Bernard Gray defends rise in Trident costs
    30 Nov 2015 Project Delivery
    Outgoing defence procurement chief Bernard Gray defends rise in Trident costs

    Chief executive of the Defence Equipment and Support agency says fresh Trident cost estimates are proof of an end to a culture in which the MoD has been "unrealistic about the numbers"


    Spending Review 2015: George Osborne unveils surprise boost for Government Digital Service
    25 Nov 2015 Project Delivery
    Spending Review 2015: George Osborne unveils surprise boost for Government Digital Service

    GDS to get an extra £450m, Spending Review confirms


    Ministry of Defence could 'lose core expertise' through civil service job cuts, MPs hear
    24 Nov 2015 Project Delivery
    Ministry of Defence could "lose core expertise" through civil service job cuts, MPs hear

    Defence committee takes evidence on the Strategic Defence and Security Review – with decision to axe 30% of MoD's civilian staff coming under fire from academics


    National Audit Office: Department for Transport has learned lessons from West Coast rail debacle – but risks remain
    24 Nov 2015 Project Delivery
    National Audit Office: Department for Transport has learned lessons from West Coast rail debacle – but risks remain

    The Department for Transport has addressed the causes of the failed West Coast rail franchise, the NAO spending watchdog finds – but risks remain to future competitions as work on HS2 delays the new West Coast franchise by six months


    Kids Company: senior civil servants should have pushed back against ministers, say MPs
    13 Nov 2015 Project Delivery
    Kids Company: senior civil servants should have pushed back against ministers, say MPs

    Stinging report by the Public Accounts Committee says government funding to the collapsed charity was “never seriously questioned, let alone stopped”


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