Project Delivery

Business minister Matt Hancock appoints Graham Farrant as new chief executive of the Land Registry

Prime minister David Cameron says review body's call to raise salary minima for Pay Band 1 by £2,000 would undermine 'flexibility'

Centre of government has 'little oversight' of departmental travel policies, the National Audit Office warns

General Sir Peter Wall says 2010 Strategic Defence and Security Review assumed 'benign' world situation

Public Administration Select Committee urges greater role for Cabinet Office in planning for the future and ending departmental duplication

Former NAO director Mark Babington joins Financial Reporting Council 

The civil service’s first chief executive has an ambitious agenda to define the next era of Whitehall reform – whatever those “damn politicians” might be planning. Jess Bowie meets him

The Somerset Rivers Authority (SRA) will receive joint funding from the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) and Somerset County Council as part of the Somerset Action Plan (SAP), it was announced Monday 8 December. 

David Blackall took up the position of acting chief executive of the Major Projects Authority (MPA) on 13 October, after being director of operations for a year.

John Manzoni, the chief executive of the Major Projects Authority, has been named as the new chief executive of the civil service.

HM Passport Office will be abolished and its operations absorbed by the Home Office from 1 October, it has been announced today, and the organisation’s chief executive Paul Pugh will be replaced by a newly-appointed director general.

Senior civil servants often “don’t know what’s going on” with contracts held by their departments and thus spot problems too late, Joshua Reddaway, the National Audit Office’s director for commercial and contracting, has warned.