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Richard Heaton

Permanent Secretary of the Cabinet Office

Sir Simon Fraser

Permanent Secretary of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Martin Donnelly

Permanent Secretary of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

Robert Devereux

Permanent Secretary of the Department for Work and Pensions

Bill Crothers

Chief Commercial Officer

Ursula Brennan

Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Justice

Cornerstone’s recent research explored what motivates people to stay in the Civil Service, covering a number of factors from job security and pensions, right through to coaching opportunities and learning and development schemes. Here's what we found

Mike Bracken

Executive Director of Digital for the UK Government

Lord Levene hails a ‘sea change’ at the MoD

John Manzoni

Chief Executive of the Civil Service

For the last five years, Civil Service World has rounded off December by publishing a set of articles written by permanent secretaries and other key figures. This year, Matt Ross finds perm secs focusing on skills, Scotland, global threats – and the creeping advance of Xmas

Sir Jeremy Heywood

Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Civil Service

Offender management and rehabilitation services will be spun out from government in 2015

George Osborne's spad enjoys significant pay rise 

National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) is India’s flagship socially relevant programme to combat poverty. It provides the legal guarantee of the right to employment to the rural poor.

The Andhra Pradesh Government wanted to implement the scheme in the state, and realised that a transparent and accountable system with IT-led execution at the grass-roots level would go a long way in ensuring its success. 

Twenty-one percent of doctors who die while undergoing “fitness to practise” investigations have taken their own lives, a report has revealed

Two of Theresa May's special advisers have been prevented from standing for Parliament because they refused to campaign for the Conservatives in the Rochester and Strood by-election.

The number of special advisers in government has increased from 93 to 103, according to the Cabinet Office

CSW asks former ministers to appraise the UK civil service. This month, Sir Hugh Robertson MP gives his views

Chief of defence staff General Sir Nicholas Houghton (pictured left) calls for “smarter” thinking on big data and finance in the Ministry of Defence 

Emerging markets face many challenges, with fluid social structures and in many cases young infrastructures. These challenges lead to both amplified risks and the innovative opportunities

After a year of big data breaches like Home Depot and Sony, and widespread security vulnerabilities in our shared software, which spawned the likes of Heartbleed and Shellshock, it’s easy to predict that cyber security will be a hot topic in 2015

Executive agency responsible for the “land arm” of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has been sold for £140m, it was announced today

Time to stop the blame game and find solutions to clinical failure in the NHS, says PASC