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Government equality watchdog workers set to stage one-day protest over budget cuts and compulsory redundancies

Watchdog voices “deep concern” over department’s rejection of recommendations to track down drivers with wrongly-revoked licenses

Independent study will form part of new strategy launched by chief scientist Sir Mark Walport (pictured) which aims to put specialists at the heart of government decision-making

Tax-collection agency names commissioner successor to Edward Troup as part of accountability rejig

Public Accounts Committee says cross departmental snapshot must be produced more quickly, include more comparative data, and be more risk-focused in the wake of the UK’s decision to leave the European Union

 

Tax authority's chief exec tells MPs that Whitehall has clear lessons to learn from failings with outsourced tax credit checking deal

Foreign secretary Boris Johnson’s first select committee grilling provides laughs and helpful sketches of flags, but little policy insight

Former Highways England boss Graham Dalton joins Ministry of Defence’s property division

Ex-immigration and enforcement chief Amanda Campbell takes up post as troubled watchdog’s chief executive officer 

As fresh Office for National Statistics data shines a light on headcount, salary and diversity within the civil service, CSW's Jim Dunton analyses the key findings

Annual resource bulletin claims fall down to “bedding in” of Levene Reforms

Think-tank raises eyebrow at PM’s capacity to turn her Conservative Party Conference pledges into reality against backdrop of further belt-tightening and Brexit uncertainty

Tax authority defends decision to axe tax credits contract as 150 temporary staff face last day at work

Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development says collaboration deal will “professionalise and upskill” human-resources staff against the backdrop of Brexit

Application window opens for 2017 recruitment programme targeting more candidates from working-class backgrounds

Northern Ireland’s Department of Justice had the highest level of staff absences last year, new figures show

Public Accounts Committee says department is unable to evidence reforms' success and significant challenges remain

Stats show Ministry of Defence, Ministry of Justice, and Home Office hit by double-digit rises as overall number of demands declines

Cabinet Office minister Ben Gummer announces Watmore’s five-year term in office will start on October 1

Public Accounts Committee calls for evidence on reports the multi-million-pound initiative had "no discernible impact” on unemployment, truancy or criminality

A “health check” on more than 70 UK regulators has found fewer than one-third have any policy on staff taking up jobs with the firms they oversee

Department for International Trade director general John Alty promises would-be Trade Policy Group staffers a “tremendously exciting time” in Brexit fray

Report commissioned by the Public Accounts Committee finds no repeat of outsourcing firm’s failings with GP data service

Institute for Government says that while Brexit will bring many new challenges, the public finances will face increasing pressures

Minister Ben Gummer says 27 departments have offered places as part of drive to improve diversity in civil service's flagship graduate scheme

Civil service network seeks to build pan-Whitehall expertise in areas such as payment-by results and agent-based modelling

Labour Party-commissioned proposals demand more money for tax collection and new tier of governance for HM Revenue & Customs

Daniel Thornton of the respected IfG think tank predicts greater role in business transformation work for government departments

Institute for Government says new select committee is likely to be almost three times the size of other watchdog panels, hampering its effectiveness

Report on electoral fraud recommends giving Whitehall oversight for the performance management of councils' electoral services

2,500 staff set to relocate to town-centre office block from summer 2017

Caroline Normand set to join Which?, while other moves see the government name Lowell Goddard’s abuse inquiry replacement and Charlie Bean lined up for the Budget Responsibility Committee

MPs call on Department for Communities and Local Government, Department for Work and Pensions and Department for Education to develop new inclusion programmes particularly targeting women

Nicholas MacPherson and Peter Ricketts to become crossbenchers in the Lords, while ex-special advisers figure prominently among Cameron’s 13 new Conservative peers

Report commissioned by the Committee on Standards in Public Life says it should accept the lack of political consensus on the introduction of large-scale public funding and seek a “more limited package” of changes

Former NHS England director for patients and information set to run Australia's national digital health services and systems