Tackling the cultural and organisational changes needed to optimise and improve digital customer experience across the public sector

Once an anonymous Whitehall lawyer, Shami Chakrabarti is now the very public face of Britain’s civil liberties movement – and a woman who inspires admiration and outrage in equal measure. Jess Bowie meets her

Keith Simpson MP delves into Graham McCann’s  behind-the-scenes account of the classic sitcom Yes Minister 

The government is driving ahead with Scottish reform – but could more powers for Holyrood change the face of Whitehall as we know it?

Nicky Morgan has been chosen as one of the PM’s top media performers for the election campaign. Having done her homework on marginal voters, can she persuade parents and students that Tory reforms are the best option for Britain?

DCLG’s Troubled Families Unit won the Policy Award

The security profession has a low profile. But that’s not for security reasons: its head Jonathan Lloyd White tells Colin Marrs that the new profession is just taking shape

While Defra prepares for rising global temperatures, Environment Secretary Liz Truss is more immediately focused on trying to warm more tech graduates to the food and farming industries – and engineer a thaw in relations between the Tories and the north

The Department of Health’s director general for social care, local government and care partnerships tells Winnie Agbonlahor about a career spent working across boundaries

Jonathan Powell, the former diplomat, chief of staff to Tony Blair and Northern Irish peacebroker, is currently trying to negotiate a ceasefire in Libya. Matt Ross asks him about the FCO, sofa government, and the ups and downs of liberal interventionalism

Chris Wormald

Permanent Secretary of the Department for Education

Rob Varley

Chief Executive of the Met Office

Jon Thompson

Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Defence

Mark Sedwill

Permanent Secretary of the Home Office​

Alison Saunders

Director of Public Prosecutions

Philip Rutnam

Permanent Secretary of the Department for Transport

Mark Russell

Chief Executive of the Shareholder Executive

Jane Platt

Chief Executive of National Savings & Investments

Sue Owen

Permanent Secretary of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Ruth Owen

Head of the Operational Delivery Profession

Una O'Brien

Permanent Secretary of the Department of Health

Tim Moss

Chief Executive of Companies House

Malcolm McKibbin

Head of the Northern Ireland Civil Service

Mark Lowcock

Permanent Secretary of the Department for International Development