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Department insists ‘no decisions have been made’ on extending current arrangements

New arrangements breach normal 21-day rule for Statutory Instruments coming into effect

Disclosure and Barring Service modernisation programme is four years late and likely to cost £229m more than planned say MPs

After a career managing major projects and transforming the way we maintain our roads, Graham Dalton is making his mark at the DIO. He speaks to Jim Dunton about smarter partnerships, runway renovations, and dinghies

Grenfell Tower tragedy and housing drive are behind growth spurt, department says

Innovative selection process sees three firms picked for 10-year project to support personnel for next-generation Dreadnought Class nuclear submarines

Department pledges to take more notice of green building certification and increase use of low-emission vehicles

Staff welcome weekly window for healthy activities agreed in deal with civil service unions

Conciliation service officers picket branches as dispute with management escalates

Report argues Whitehall, the NHS and local government will not be able to fill key roles without tailored agreement with the European Union

Cabinet Office's annual figures show four-fold increase for Brexit department

Windrush scandal turns spotlight on numbers shortfall with high-fliers programme

MPs criticise department for not knowing where to spend £7bn pump-priming cashpot

Three months after the collapse of Carillion, organisation says outsourcing firms’ operating models require greater scrutiny

Think-tank says business rates retention schemes will reduce central government’s financial flexibility and may not provide valuable insight

Competition rules also relaxed for appointments aimed at boosting life chances of disadvantaged applicants

Public Accounts Committee tells ministry to up its game on keeping track of schools operators at risk of going broke

Watchdog MPs doubt department’s ability to meet £1.7bn savings target from new regulations

Cabinet Office gives unions six weeks to table compo package to rival its own update proposals

Think tank says chancellor will trumpet lower annual borrowing but report a much bigger deficit than predicted two years ago

Union’s national executive calls for pan-Whitehall dialogue on ending pay cap with threat of national ballot on the strike action

Civil service unions urge politicians to give workers same rights to fair pay that they enjoy

Workers at non-departmental public body could walk out over office closure and other changes

Appointments watchdog publishes advice letter to Ameetpal Gill over contract with Oliver Letwin’s cross-party Brexit initiative

Programme manager bags runner up slot in literary springboard the Costa Short Story Award

Shadow body overseeing hubs programme and New Property Model expected to go live last year

Fewer than 10% of Community Rehabilitation Companies qualify for offender-reduction rewards

BEIS programme manager makes literary springboard’s ‘final three’ 

Just five local authorities bid for cash from government infrastructure scheme designed to accelerate delivery of on-street power points

Department launches three-year plan to boost digital, data and technology offer

Harlow Council planners approve blueprint for science campus

 Public Accounts Committee criticises departments' “business as usual” assumption for 2019 and berates pace of pan-Whitehall Border Planning Group 

But peer review finds HR qualms and suggests the organisation needs louder voice on air quality

Labour minister-turned-Greater Manchester mayor berates anachronistic policymaking processes

Bureaucrat-turned-academic Gary Sturgess argues Whitehall needs to up its game on public service contracting and commissioning. Jim Dunton reports

Former Post Office and MoJ man Neil Hayward replaces Peter Gregory at DfT firm