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First refusals on eligibility grounds announced, but some applications were “under consideration for several months”

Home Office was slow to react to reports of injustice and ignored warning signs, Wendy Williams finds

Economics professor will lead advisory group as it produces ‘shortage occupation list’ for post-Brexit immigration system

Ramping up testing now a priority for ‘data-driven’ strategy, chief scientist tells MPs

Former ambassador to the UN to succeed Philip Rutnam, who quit in bullying row

Cabinet secretary tells civil servants to discuss working from home arrangements and look out for colleagues

Covid-19 strategy aims to reduce the peak of the outbreak, “not to suppress it completely", Patrick Vallance says

“I could not have asked for better, more committed colleagues," Moriarty says in statement

£5bn public service response fund and business loans and grants among measures announced in Budget

Chancellor says government will boost R&D spending to £22bn a year by 2024-25

Civil servants are following the advice of Public Health England, which is tracing people who have come into contact with Nadine Dorries

Making it easier for ministers to remove perm secs risks turning civil servants into "yes men or yes women", cab sec warns

Unit's involvement announced as Boris Johnson chairs COBRA meeting to plan next steps

Unions say SSRB submission shows government isn't valuing staff, while MPs get a 31% pay rise

Nearly £100m of spending written off, watchdog finds

"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

Chancellor expected to announce emergency funding to support services as four-stage action plan published

Union says Cabinet Office probe "falls far short" of independent inquiry it called for as reports emerge of an earlier alleged bullying incident when Patel was at DWP

Would-be case examiners warned complaints process "can be lengthy" as DWP admits reviewers are taking 20 months to clear cases

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

Staff at Caerphilly service centre created "hostile environment" for former trainee

Department chief will oversee a "growing portfolio of financial investments in housing and infrastructure delivery", according to job advert

Cab sec calls for an end to “stories of tensions within Whitehall, sparked by unattributable briefings and leaks”

Previous governments' underspending shows that without the right skills, departments won't be able to deliver infrastructure reforms, IfG says

Policies "not yet operating with the consistency and coordination, nor with the scale" needed to meet industrial strategy goals

Policy proposals unveiled today include no visa route for "low-skilled" workers

Passport office not told when right of abode applicants were 'known or suspected to have used deception', inspector says

Appointments suggest "fuller merger at later date", IfG senior fellow says

Javid, who refused to fire his special advisers to stay in post, says cabinet ministers must be allowed to have "trusted teams"

Gove, Raab and Patel all stay while Sunak joins the top team as chancellor

Business, environment and Northern Ireland secreataries sacked in reshuffle but departmental changes fail to materialise

Appointment comes as government says Ofcom should regulate social media under Online Harms measures

Officials consider move to open regional base as HMRC gets keys to latest northern hub

Department urged to introduce no-protest zones at clinics after turning down buffer zones proposal in 2018

New unit to improve how DWP learns "lessons from customers' experiences" as NAO reveals department has investigated 69 deaths linked to suicide