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Brexit secretary David Davis says "the most brilliant people in Whitehall" are looking to work for his new department

Common Agricultural Policy fines continue to hamper Defra accounts, while National Audit Office also points to the Ministry of Defence's non-compliance with international accounting standards

Cabinet secretary gives nod to existing Brexit unit as he calls on civil service "to ensure everyday business of government and providing public services goes on"

Central procurement agency announces that it is to phase out reliance on managed service fees

Royal Statistical Society praises Transport department for "honest" and "innovative" presentation of official statistics

Energy minister – who wants to trigger Article 50 sooner rather than later – knocks Michael Gove out of the race to be Tory leader

Department for Work and Pensions' (DWP) 85,000 staff will be encouraged to save with member-owned financial institutions

National Audit Office says landscape of quangos "remains confused and incoherent"

Justice secretary and surprise Conservative leadership contender launches his bid to be the next prime minister with focus on public services shake-up

"I cannot now foresee an announcement until at least October," says transport secretary Patrick McLoughlin

Former cabinet secretary says coming up with options for UK's post-Brexit future would be "a wonderful job" for the civil service

Justice committee warns the Ministry of Justice against seeking to "represent the quality of its evidence base to be higher than it is" after senior legal figures criticise research into court fees

Public and Commercial Services union says it will "continue the pressure on BIS" over decision to axe Sheffield office, as staff kick off latest round of industrial action

Former Department for Education HEO Edward Chapman sentenced to three years and four months in jail after admitting £1m fraud and obtaining money by deception – as department says it is seeking to "recover the misappropriated funds in full"

New figures from the Management Consultancies Association show another year-on-year rise in public sector consultancy spending – but totals remain well below 2009 peak

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Latest revisions to the tax authority's Single Departmental Plan include customer service targets and aim of getting staff engagement up to civil service-wide average

Cabinet Office promises new multi agency incident transfer protocol will help improve response to major incidents like terror attacks and floods

Late principal private secretary to prime minister David Cameron honoured in naming of this year's Policy Award

KPMG’s Head of Government and Infrastructure Kru Desai sits down with Civil Service World to discuss a career in public sector transformation and why she’s looking forward to leading a challenge to ‘Reimagine’ public services

MPs warn key details on new Equality and Human Rights Commission chairman "were not forthcoming" as they weighed up conflict of interest concerns

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Study by Tech UK and Dods Research finds gap between vision and reality on departments' digital transformation plans

Business minister Anna Soubry says plan to reform relationship between tenants and big pubcos will not come into force next month as planned

Home Office chief points out that enforcement rate for confiscation orders is increasing, even as overall debt pile grows, while Derbyshire police chief Mick Creedon points the finger at legacy of “inflated” targets

Spending watchdog to take its first detailed look at the central government procurement agency

Tory MP Richard Bacon gets a cheeky question in about the internet sensation... 

Online payments firm Stripe – which handles payments for Kickstarter – among those chosen in revamped approach to government merchant services

Andrew Johnston, who spent 30 years at the Government Actuary’s Department, reflects on the parallels between his career in Whitehall and his current role as chair of CS Healthcare in our Q&A with people who’ve crossed organisational and sectoral boundaries to join a new working world

Government's top IT official taking on newly-created role of national technology adviser

Mental health, musculoskeletal disorders and encouraging healthy lifestyles top priorities for newly-created cross-Whitehall role

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Criminal Justice Joint Inspection report highlights "significant progress" needed on digital overhaul of the justice system – with continued manual entry and lack of join-up

Macpherson says IDS's resignation over Personal Independence Payments was an "interesting, postmodern" decision

GDS executive director says central government digital team must ensure Whitehall "embraces the change, rather than trying to avoid it"

Troup faces media scrutiny over role at Simmons & Simmons – as HMRC points out his role "has never involved responsibility for operational activities or direct dealings with companies on their tax affairs"