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The trust gap between officials and ministers is the widest it has been in the survey's history

Environment secretary set to stay on at department but report outlines scale of tasks ahead

Government urged to boost life chances for youngsters battling adversity and save money at the same time

The government said it would "think creatively about current and future challenges relating to cyber skills" in response to a joint select committee report.

The reform "continues to incentivise single parents... to reduce working hours", according to the Resolution Foundation think tank

Treasury spending teams should be "more involved in challenging the benefits of projects", says auditor general

Peers urge chancellor Philip Hammond to drop plans to extend the window in which HMRC can investigate taxpayers’ affairs if they had some tax dealings outside the UK

With no evidence to support the claim that benefit sanctions help get more people into work, the committee said they were 'nothing other than arbitrarily punitive'

Transport committee approves fomer airport chief as rail regulator chair

DWP extends legacy payouts after watchdog's warning that claimants transferring onto Universal Credit would face financial hardship

FCO honours staff association co-founder who left “an important legacy to LGBT+ diplomats”

Attacks on civil servants “sawing away at the legs of the institutions which keep us free", Gummer says

Alan Evans joins HMRC at a "critical time for the department", says permanent secretary Jon Thompson

Sir David Wright appointed as chair designate, with Electoral Commission head Claire Bassett named as chief executive designate

New head of civil service says that making a success of Brexit is a ‘common national endeavour’

Hammond will also expands off-payroll working rules to the private sector

Some companies were paid nearly £500,000 for 'central EU exit consultancy'

Chancellor also announces additional funding for Universal Credit after growing pressure 

Trading on uncertified schedules after Brexit presents “a number of potential problems”,

Javid pledges review to ensure system is ‘fair and humane’ following revelation that visa applications were wrongly denied

Job advert seeks "authoritative" figure to take over after a rocky year for the prisons service

Department for Work and Pensions accused of being 'in denial' over negative impacts of new welfare system

But MPs hear department's confidence does not extend to no-deal Brexit preparations

The transport secretary also told MPs the UK's franchising model was 'shaky'

How effective departments' contingency planning for no-deal will be 'remains to be seen', NAO says

Stephi Brett-Lee is head of internal communications at the Department for Work and Pensions and the youngest deputy director in the department. In the first of a new series profiling up-and-coming leaders across government, Beckie Smith caught up with her to discuss what leadership means in today’s civil service

Ending austerity in next week's Budget is a 'seemingly impossible task' for the chancellor, the Resolution Foundation said

Customs brokers are worried about whether they will be able to meet extra demand in a no-deal scenario

'If the chancellor wants to keep his excellent civil service, he cannot keep this restraint on public sector pay'

Civil servants need to go "back to basics" on spending and record keeping, watchdog says

'Mismatches in volumes and available staffing will impair our ability to clear work,' Neil Couling told MPs

Ensuring staff are equipped to deak with huge workload is also an 'anxiety', says Clare Moriarty 

Some projects were not given intended outcomes by which to measure success, making it impossible to determine what they have achieved, the watchdog said

Permanent secretary Jon Thompson shares the figures as senior officials tell committee they can’t guarantee no-deal would go smoothly 

The union said it is gearing up to take legal action against every major department that ended check-off provisions

The science chief will advise on areas such as artificial intelligence, cyber security, space technology and chemical, biological and missile defence