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Cabinet secretary says he will "resist attempts to draw the civil service" into Brexit debates

Nigel Hawthorn looks at how to review cloud use, report on risks and apply policies to reduce likely data loss incidents in this latest insight from BT

Plan intended to avoid checks on the border but proposal described as non-starter by Irish foreign minister

Ex-MI6 chief says Tinker, Tailor Solider, Spy author is “obsessed" with his three-year spy career

Alanna Reid, a policy adviser at the Cabinet Office’s public appointments policy team, reports on an intersectionality event held by the Cabinet Office LGBT+ Network and Gender Equality Group as part of national inclusion week

Corbyn announces policy in constituency of former DWP secretary Iain Duncan Smith

Stats watchdog says department has failed to answer questions about how the pledge will be funded

Chancellor will say work to improve UK infrastructure ‘must start here and now’

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

Watchdog says disruption cannot be ruled out despite health secretary Matt Hancock's guarantee

Law expert left Department for International Trade last month after being caught in July

IfG also calls for arm's-length commission or What Works Centre to improve policymaking

Report saying there is "still much to do" comes as G4S quits immigration outsourcing

As the Department for Education refashions itself as a delivery department, its chief digital officer Emma Stace tells Civil Service World she is determined to make digital ‘just the way we do things round here’

Now in its fifth year, the Competition and Markets Authority is more active than ever in its efforts to enforce the rules of the marketplace and protect consumers against unfair trading practices. Chief executive Dr Andrea Coscelli sits down with Geoffrey Lyons to discuss Brexit planning, the UK auditing shake-up, and learning from experience

CDIO Davinson says the biggest challenge is ensuring sufficient investment in the ‘underpinning capabilities’

Contract signed as DfT says disruption caused by "lack of trader readiness" could slow down imports of medicines via some ports

Civil service trade unions slam Johnson’s “cavalier” suspension

Organisations won't be told if their grant applications are through to the next stage until November

Precise scope of new £180k GCDIO role is unclear, as is relationship with head of GDS

New network technology creates new risk, but the same technology is driving a step-change in how we think about security, writes BT

The Next Steps programme represented a generation of reform from Thatcher to New Labour, driven by a desire to deliver services via executive agencies. Carole and Colin Talbot explore its chequered history

Dowden insists Brexit-preparation improvements ‘not about collecting personal data’

The government quickly became the UK’s fifth largest airline following the closure of Monarch Airlines. After winning the project delivery excellence award at the 2018 Civil Service Awards, Eirik Pitkethly told Civil Service World earlier this year how the Department for Transport did it