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Department’s services arm offers up to £43k for globe-trotting specialists

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs strategy includes Whitehall ban on “single use” plastic forks, straws and bottles

Watchdog says department could have to pay nation’s least punctual train operator tens of millions of pounds a year because of changes to its contract requirements

Prospect says funding uncertainty puts UK’s world-class defence industry at risk

Brexit department seeks 35 policy leads and 25 senior advisers on up to £64.5k

Environment secretary praises ‘brilliant’ Defra staff but rubbishes bureaucracy and ‘haphazard’ inspection regimes

Peers question MPs' decision to further redact Brexit documents and call on David Davis to publish entire papers

Former planning and skills minister reflects on life in government and ‘too vague’ David Cameron

Prime minister insists Home Office chief-turned-national-security-adviser can decline request to appear

Theresa May took second opinion from Sir Alex Allen before sacking her closest Cabinet ally

Transparency data reveals pay bands and appointing ministers for Whitehall’s 88 spads

Heywood and Manzoni salary bands remain unchanged from last year, but the number of government staff earning £150,000 or more rises 13%

Union berates department for being forced into the move to comply with National Living Wage

Watchdog MP Meg Hillier slams two-year time-lag that has seen millions of pounds spent on services from an "inadequate" provider

Post-implementation evaluation admits many employers see new system as a burden

Think-tank analysis identifies concessions on residency rights, a £39bn bill on the ‘never-never’, and hand-tying assurances on Northern Ireland in draft agreement

Union’s national executive agrees to prepare for statutory strike ballot

Tax collection agency picks internal candidate as Edward Troup retires

Public Bodies 2017 report suggests some “tailored reviews” will be rescheduled until post-EU landscape becomes clearer

Action pre-empts driving examiner strike expected to start in early December

Association of Revenue and Customs warns government not rely on “goodwill” to deliver £155m recovery package with no progress on pay

Chancellor Philip Hammond set to respond to Sir Michael Barber’s proposals in Wednesday’s Autumn Budget

Watchdog’s snapshot shows BEIS has biggest numeric burden, followed by Defra

Councils say green paper next year is "no substitute for extra funding next week"

Whitehall barometer notes continuing decline in salary satisfaction against ongoing backdrop of 1% cap

Updated guidance would name senior officials earning £90k or more and detail expenses as well as benefits in kind

HMRC staff reviewed 73,000 stopped or amended tax-credit claims and closed a further 181,000 cases after meltdown of outsourced fraud-and-error checking contract

DWP, HMRC, DCMS and Cabinet Office staff win 2017 Reimagine Challenge for joined-up approach to aiding poor people in financial crisis

Union warns of strike potential over Courts and Tribunal Service’s hubs proposals

Theo Rycroft also plays down significance of Oliver Robbins’ move to Cabinet Office

Former ambassador to EU warns MPs the UK faces talent and data imbalance against backdrop of Article 50 process

National Audit Office warns shortage of key commercial and cost assurance experts could jeopardise £1.7bn savings target from non-competitive contracts

Civil service signs up to implement recommendations of a report to boost mental health support at work

Sinn Féin and DUP given two weeks to agree new power-sharing deal or face Westminster intervention on budget

Minister says target to hire 2,500 new staff has passed the half way mark but union warns attrition rates are at an all-time high

Institute for Government report says universal pay hike could exacerbate Tories’ political woes amid £10bn spending hole