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Former High Commissioner to Malta Rob Luke to take on policy role with the Information Commissioner's Office

Agency “has no contingency plan” for lower-than-predicted uptake of digital tax plans, Public Accounts Committee warns

MPs call on government to commission independent review into tax-credit compliance processes

Fomer Foreign and Commonwealth Office director of strategy Alex Ellis set to join new department in January as director general

Just-released documents from former chancellor Geoffrey Howe’s tenure at Treasury reveal interest in dismantling NHS and social security bedrocks

Labour Party says appointment of Pippa Malmgren raises “awkward questions” for international trade secretary Liam Fox

Civil service staff feedback underscores capacity issues and extent of job losses and pay squeeze, main trade bodies warn

Equality and Human Rights Commission staff protest job losses and cuts in London, Birmingham, Manchester and Glasgow

Staff responses signal across-the-board plunge on all key measures, and make department Whitehall’s lowest employee-engagement performer

 House of Lords Constitution Committee session told that wealth of academic data is often ignored

Joint FCO and DIT recruitment campaign offers up to £117,800 a year for new faculty within Diplomatic Academy

Appointment will bring number of female permanent secretaries to five, partially reversing recent downturn

Independence fears prompt U-turn as Children and Social Work Bill enters report stage in House of Lords

Director general for defence and intelligence Sarah MacIntosh to take up posting next year

Latest National Fraud Initiative report shows 37% fall in properties recovered

Public Accounts Committee says Concentrix debacle highlights potential for error as Universal Credit rollout continues

Institute for Government says ruling on Parliamentary approval for Article 50 trigger will “greatly impact” Theresa May’s plans to enact leave mechanism by March 2017

Former shadow Cabinet Office minister says the government still has questions to answer on troubled tax credit checks contract

HM Revenue & Customs chief exec Jon Thompson admits failings with fraud-busting contract just part of the "sub-optimal" picture on tax credits

Agency will keep Belfast-based workers on ahead of May 2017 termination of outsourced checks contract

Public Accounts Committee urges Cabinet Office to boost departments’ oversight of quangos – and share accountability good practice more widely

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