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Minister Ben Gummer says 27 departments have offered places as part of drive to improve diversity in civil service's flagship graduate scheme
Civil service network seeks to build pan-Whitehall expertise in areas such as payment-by results and agent-based modelling
Labour Party-commissioned proposals demand more money for tax collection and new tier of governance for HM Revenue & Customs
Daniel Thornton of the respected IfG think tank predicts greater role in business transformation work for government departments
Institute for Government says new select committee is likely to be almost three times the size of other watchdog panels, hampering its effectiveness
Report on electoral fraud recommends giving Whitehall oversight for the performance management of councils' electoral services
2,500 staff set to relocate to town-centre office block from summer 2017
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
Nicholas MacPherson and Peter Ricketts to become crossbenchers in the Lords, while ex-special advisers figure prominently among Cameron’s 13 new Conservative peers
Report commissioned by the Committee on Standards in Public Life says it should accept the lack of political consensus on the introduction of large-scale public funding and seek a “more limited package” of changes
Former NHS England director for patients and information set to run Australia's national digital health services and systems
Policy Exchange proposes “turbo charged” devolution of Whitehall functions to councils and city regions over the next five years
Think tank says fear of central government scrutiny stops councils from sharing full “lessons learned” on service integration work
Exclusive: Unions seek to put brake on revised redundancy rules negotiations in wake of EU referendum
Institute for Government says Department for International Trade's remit is at odds with comments from new prime minister Theresa May
IFS deputy director Carl Emmerson among new appointments to Social Security Advisory Committee
Unions welcome commitment to change controversial “guided distribution” system ahead of pilot results
Director Mark Fisher flags OCS’s connections with new home and says latest government restructuring is “vital”
Spending watchdog says bosses failure to declare National Insurance Fund payments kept departmental revenue spending in the black
Machinery of government change shifts Office for Civil Society functions to Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Watchdog says "less transactional" process is required and criticises Single Departmental Plans for failing to meet transparency goals
Department for Work and Pensions' director general tells MPs that policy changes are behind new timescales
New report praises cross-government progress since 2010 but questions the value of Single Departmental Plans
“The civil service has to be free to make whatever preparations it considers necessary and it should not be constrained by instructions from the government," says Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee chairman Bernard Jenkin
New prime minister brings former Home Office Spads Fiona Hill and Nick Timothy back to the fold
Sir Andrew Cahn says seismic shifts in departmental structures risk significantly delaying crucial post-EU referendum policy work.
Former FCO chief insists old department will be "absolutely at the heart of" new prime minister's task of quitting the European Union
Cabinet Office confirms pilots will test changes to civil service-wide staff grading system, but draws fire for “frustratingly slow” progress
National Audit Office issues another qualification of department’s accounts and says fraud and error levels remain “unacceptably high”
Watchdog suggests Home Office and NHS England tighten joint-working arrangements in future outsourcing deals
Tom Scholar rejects suggestion referendum preparations were weak and focused on securing a “Remain” result – but confirms existence of civil service-wide resource review
Information Commissioner says “public interest” in naming representatives from US healthcare firms overrides Freedom of Information exemption
Local Government Association says Brexit talks should not simply return legislative responsibilites straight to Westminster
National Probation Service director Colin Allars named as successor to Lin Hinnigan at troubled young offenders' organisation
University College London academics spearhead drive for independent inquiry into both sides’ “misinformation” and “outright falsehood”