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Call to open appraisals process to the National Infrastructure Commission ahead of possible Budget boost

Body offers £149,500 a year for official to oversee work on HS2, Northern Powerhouse Rail and nuclear projects

To mark this year’s annual Security & Policing conference, CSW interviews experts including the National Crime Agency’s Lynne Owens and the Joint Security and Resilience Centre’s Angela Essel, and takes an in-depth look at issues such as knife crime and the relationship between UK security firms and the Department for International Trade

"We are well prepared as a country to deal with this outbreak," Sedwill tells officials

Whitty says 'social cost' of measures like school closures means government will wait until the “last possible point” to implement them

Message sent to staff as fresh bullying claims emerge from Patel’s time at the Department for International Development

The inaugural CSW Innovation Lecture considered the importance of cross-sector working to realise the potential of new technologies. Charlotte Newbury reports

The UK’s security exports are booming, and DIT’s Defence and Security Organisation is helping businesses present a united front when competing for international trade. Deputy director Tracy Buckingham for security and cyber security tells all

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

Emergency meeting lays out steps ministers could take if outbreak spreads, including calling up retired doctors to help staff hospitals

FDA calls for ‘rapid and thorough’ independent inquiry into allegations against home secretary after Rutnam's 'extraordinary' resignation

Resignation comes as he claims home secretary shouted and swore at Home Office staff

Emergency committee meeting planned after PM visits hospital to discuss preparations for treating virus

The UK government should look west for ideas on fostering security innovation from the tech sector, says Alexis Long

Serco Health director Abi Tierney will lead HM Passport Office and UK Visas and Immigration

FDA union says divorcing spads from ministers means the role essentially becomes a policy adviser recruited outside impartiality rules

Breakdown of talks would lead to increased customs checks, policy paper says

Knife crime has hit a record high in England but it is hardly a new phenomenon. Jonathan Owen looks at what is driving current levels and how police and civil servants are responding in new ways

Cabinet Office and now-defunct DExEU top list of ministries with the fastest-turning revolving doors

UK2070 commission calls for 20-year commitment to Shared Prosperity Fund and radical decentralisation of funding

Former head of government Rough Sleepers Unit returns to Whitehall as PM announces new aid package

Department to phase out physical immigration documents, despite warnings that digital-only EU settlement scheme has "parallels with Windrush"

IFS sets out Budget bind in analysis of public finances ahead of 11 March statement

Integrated review will "go beyond the parameters of a traditional review", No.10 says