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Foreign Office says ambassadors must be able to give "honest, unvarnished" opinions in confidence

Next prime minister urged to float Department for Health and Social Care's long-delayed vision ahead of conference season

Agreement reached as Deloitte fined £4.2m over its auditing of the outsourcing giant during the scandal

Department has “no real understanding” of how well £12bn of pump-priming cash is being used, MPs warn

Javid gives go-ahead after perm sec Rutnam says his approval is needed for payments in absence of legislation

Nick Smallwood replaces Tony Meggs at joint Treasury and Cabinet Office agency

Cabinet secretary says that leaks are ‘incredibly damaging for the overall integrity of the civil service’

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Appointment comes more than a year after communities department advertised for a chief scientific adviser

Any day rates over £750 require ministerial sign off from this month under 'enhanced approvals' process, Cabinet Office chief tells PACAC

Department floats two-year contact to support delivery of tech and infrastructure

If day-to-day IT operations are taking resources away from your organisation's strategic priorities, BT has some helpful advice

Following news of Olly Robbins' likely departure, Brexiteers must stop treating civil servants like parents turning up at your first Glastonbury and act with level-headedness

Labour say report reveals 'unconstitutional political intervention', but FDA accuses Times of reporting 'tittle-tattle over coffee' as if it was the settled view of civil servants

Prospect members protest at imposition of rejected 1.3% pay offer

New appointments in the civil service, UK politics, and public affairs, via our colleagues at Dods People

Latest move comes after Institute for Government warns government may never be as ready for no deal as it was in March

Report commissioned by the department says civil servants were ‘rightly appalled by what happened’ but this was ‘often juxtaposed with a self-justification’

Problems affected ‘a very small number’ of the 350,000 businesses now signed up for digital platform, according to perm sec

Government chief commercial officer Gareth Rhys Williams has set out ambitious plans to improve contract management across government. He tells CSW what has been achieved in the first six months of a new accreditation scheme

Tweaks for 2019 include Public Value Framework sections but IfG warns openness project is still very much a work in progress

Lidington pledges government will only pay for capacity it uses after £50m payout to scrap no-deal ferry contracts

Meg Hillier also queries “surprising” lack of ministerial directions for some Brexit-related spending