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Benefits agreed in £33m Eurotunnel settlement “little more than window dressing”, MPs say

Committee says department is displaying "a distressing pattern" of ignoring calls to test the managed migration process before pilots

Industrial action will be the latest in a series of strikes that have been backed by high-profile MPs 

Foreign Office permanent secretary says probe will be government-wide as emails had a "very wide" readership in Whitehall

Foreign Office says ambassadors must be able to give "honest, unvarnished" opinions in confidence

As Pride season gets underway, the DfE perm sec talks diversity, data and learning from his daughter

Appointment comes more than a year after communities department advertised for a chief scientific adviser

Select committee scrutiny comes after CSW reveals repayments being demanded from retired officials

Labour say report reveals 'unconstitutional political intervention', but FDA accuses Times of reporting 'tittle-tattle over coffee' as if it was the settled view of civil servants

Lidington pledges government will only pay for capacity it uses after £50m payout to scrap no-deal ferry contracts

Department chiefs twice as likely to have attended a fee-paying school than a comprehensive, education charity says

The cabinet secretary says his leadership style is founded on three core elements. Beckie Smith reports on Civil Service World’s 2019 leadership lecture

McLean was awarded damehood for services to mathematical biology and advice to government

MoJ rejects call to review Transforming Rehabilitation reforms in long-delayed response to 2018 Justice Committee report

£940,000 bill does not include VAT or cost of departmental officials' time

Former director general for EU exit has been interim permanent secretary since April

Cunnington says new role is a "fantastic opportunity to build on our achievements at GDS"

Inspectorate sounds alarm after finding high levels of violence and self-harm at HMP Bristol

Department would draw up plans for multi-billion pound "shared prosperity fund", Stewart says

Singh review finds poor coordination and outdated IT systems made it difficult to find everyone affected by demands for DNA evidence

Individual civil servants’ pay awards could vary depending on where each department decides to target increases

Warning comes after PM hopefuls hint at plans for departmental culls

Permanent secretary admits there is "more we can do" to improve access to education stats

Payments include £8.2m paid to people who had been wrongly detained

Update also reveals Windrush taskforce has rejected 1,445 applications for documentation proving status

Examination comes after administrator MyCSP finds it has paid 12,000 pensioners too much or too little

It took departments 119 days on average to publish details of contracts

Public health professor has been a chief scientific adviser to government departments for a decade

Union seeks urgent meeting with the Cabinet Office after CSW reveals demands for payment

Former BIS and DIT permanent secretary will be troubled aerospace giant's "senior representative" in Europe and the UK and Ireland"

Truss also hints at buildings sell-off to avoid having “land that could be used for housing sitting on the government balance sheet”

One ex-civil servant says his enquiries have gone unanswered after he received a bill for more than £8,000

A permanent replacement for outgoing stats chief to be announced in "late summer", UKSA says

Case in which asylum detainee was told to return to the address where she was sexually exploited raises "grave safeguarding concerns", charity says

FDA petition says pay has stagnated while ministers 'make political capital out of the end of austerity'

Regulator calls for publication of official data to "enable meaningful public spending debate"