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PACAC chair calls for expanded role for Department for International Trade second perm sec Crawford Falconer in Brexit trade talks

The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy was created in July 2016 as part of changes announced when Theresa May became prime minister. Civil Service World met Angie Ridgwell and Jaee Samant, the civil servants responsible for the transition programme from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and the Department for Energy and Climate Change, to reflect on the process. By Richard Johnstone

SSAC chair tells CSW the body will monitor the merging benefits system to make sure it matches ministers' pledges

Campaign group’s FOI compares Whitehall team with US counterparts at July meeting

Union says Nuclear Decommissioning Authority cannot be held solely responsible for failings detailed by National Audit Office

Devereux to leave government after leading the department through controversial Universal Credit rollout 

The Home Office, environment department and HMRC are among those given new money to fund preparations for Brexit

Former immigration enforcement chief describes scale of Brexit challenge as chancellor pledges 'minimum' customs arrangement by March 2019

Labour, Liberal Democrat, Green and SNP MPs have written to Brexit secretary David Davis

As government struggles to negotiate, legislate and implement Brexit, we need clear accountability. It is rime for DExEU to step up and take charge

Prime minister demands 'explain or change' approach in battle to defeat ethnic injustice

Stephen Lovegrove told MPs that nuclear power plant deal with EDF would have collapsed had his department tried to renegotiate terms

Prime minister has confirmed the government is planning for every eventuality, including that no transition agreement is reach by 2019

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

Appointments watchdog ACOBA approves former PM’s request to work for electronic-payments company

As head of HM Courts and Tribunals Service, the Ministry of Justice executive agency that runs the judicial system in England and Wales, Susan Acland-Hood is overseeing wide-ranging reforms to the operation of courts across the country. She tells Richard Johnstone how the changes will improve access to justice

Digital director John Sheridan tells Civil Service World's sister publication PublicTechnology about changes not only to how the UK’s official archive operates, but to the very nature of archiving

Deputy governor Sam Woods says slow progress in negotiations risks banks triggering contingency plans

Institute for Government argues that European Court of Justice cannot provide a neutral voice

Prof Ian Boyd cancels decision to step down and pledges to stay on for “at least another year”

Hollywood has lessons for the long-running compensation scheme saga, but there's no guaranteed happy ending

Recent high-profile staff moves at the Department for Exiting the European Union have hit the headlines. Victoria Taylor, the FDA trade union’s national officer for DExEU and the Department for International Trade explains what is life is like on the inside of one of Whitehall’s most high-profile departments

John Manzoni announces programme’s improvement in Times ranking a year after diversity reforms were implemented

Chair of welfare review body says model could be applied to contentious government plans to revise European legislation without parliamentary scrutiny