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MPs ‘disappointed’ with government rejection of recommendations for extra safeguards to prevent sidelining of ministers in key decisions 

Entire ministerial team at the central Whitehall department changes as Theresa May completes wide-ranging government reshuffle

Code updated to protect staff and prevent inappropriate overseas visits following Damian Green, Michael Fallon and Priti Patel scandals

Former justice secretary does not take ‘first secretary of state’ title while Esther McVey named new work and pensions secretary

Transport department insists that franchise will continue to meet financial terms to 2020 and has paid more to Treasury than previous state-owned operator

Prime minister announces rebranded Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government and Department of Health and Social Care 

Former infrastructure tsar and Cabinet minister says Brexit is sidelining other issues and claims half of civil servants believe government policy is ‘trashing the national interest’

Reform hailed as evidence of One Team government approach to improving how Whitehall works

Government changes today will also include replacement for Damian Green as Cabinet Office minister

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

Prospect says funding uncertainty puts UK’s world-class defence industry at risk

Chancellor refuses to rule out the UK remaining in a customs union with the EU after leaving the bloc

Brexit department seeks 35 policy leads and 25 senior advisers on up to £64.5k

Department launches three-year plan to boost digital, data and technology offer

Environment secretary praises ‘brilliant’ Defra staff but rubbishes bureaucracy and ‘haphazard’ inspection regimes

Two Cabinet ministers have effectively accused civil servants of politically-motivated attacks. They cannot hide behind anonymous sources to attack hard working government professionals

Supplier sought to kick off project by engaging with the big four mobile network operators

Rob Behrens understands the importance of learning from other people’s difficult experiences. The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman tells Richard Johnstone how his international work has shaped his approach, and how he hasn’t given up on a plan to merge with other ombudsmen

Department issues rebuttal to claims that it misled the public over the changes to the colour of passports following Brexit

Candidate will also be tasked with leading review of how legislation could be modernised following EU withdrawal

After the conclusion of the first phase of Brexit talks, focus has now moved to the transition deal likely to take effect from 2019. But the impact of leaving the EU on Whitehall’s immigration agencies will be permanent, says Matt Bevington, a research assistant at UK in a Changing Europe

PCS union accuses department of casualising the workforce as proposal follows years of staffing cuts

At the end of 2017, we asked the UK's top civil servants to look back at the year, outline their goals for 2018 – and tell us what they cannot do Christmas without

Whitehall departments to be told there are ‘no excuses’ for lack of Brexit preparation