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Whitehall commentators and insiders at odds over expertise and timescales for “conscious uncoupling” with Europe

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Cabinet Office minister says we must recognise “just how much” tech skills are rewarded outside the civil service

New chief executive and permanent secretary tells MPs that technology issues and new performance management regime are at the root of organisation’s problems

Hilary Spencer lined up as new head of the Government Equalities Office

Think tank praises updated blueprint for public-sector procurement but warns new clause must be used

PHE chief executive Duncan Selbie tells MPs of desire to return to cross-working model from “two reorganisations ago”

Lord Maude of Horsham’s request among appointments watchdog’s latest raft of transparency data

 Balancing careers in the European Commission and corporate world with a young family have given Ian William Vollbracht and his wife valuable insights into having it all - some of the time 

Independent recruitment regulator says campaign group’s league table was factually wrong and misdirected

Cutting people's benefits decreases the likelihood they will find work, a report backed by the government has found.

Acting permanent secretary poised to take on £340,000-a-year City of London role

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

This time last year, Louise Haigh had only just become an MP. Now she’s Jeremy Corbyn’s shadow Cabinet Office minister, holding the government to account on civil service issues – and making her voice heard on Whitehall’s diversity record. Matt Foster meets her

The government is determined to cut public sector costs, to rebalance the economy, and to drive up exports. Joshua Southern, Manager at KPMG, suggests how one policy could create big wins across government, industry and the UK export market

CSW readers react to Labour's perm sec quotas plan – and the Cabinet Office's proposal to find out more about the backgrounds of Fast Stream applicants

Professor Malcolm Chalmers – who was consulted by the government as it drew up its 2010 and 2015 security reviews – says a vote to leave the European Union may mean reopening defence spending settlements

Information Commissioner Christopher Graham rejects argument that releasing information on former civil service chief Lord Kerslake's peerage would have a "chilling effect" on the honours system

New £160,000-a-year "Continuous Improvement Director" asked to track progress against commercial improvement plans departments have agreed with the Cabinet Office

Whitehall's HR directors asked to collect data on public interest concerns for the first time – with the majority of officials choosing to come forward anonymously

Select committees do valuable work, but the relentless grandstanding by some of their members damages public services and does nothing to hold government to account

Microsoft makes the case for local councils to move to the cloud

The former Energy and Climate Change chief scientist, who died earlier this year, taught his department how to do policymaking without the hot air – by making the process data-led, iterative and open