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Transport for London and department need up to £650m more to complete late-running project

Independent assessment will look at department’s quality management approach after longstanding double-counting issue

UK Statistics Authority and ICO issue election warning ahead of five-week information onslaught

Johnson commits MHCLG and Home Office to legislating for first-phase report recommendations

Devolution move seeks to align policy and spending decisions with health, education and social welfare

MPs applaud departmental drive to secure longer-term funding to tackle poor maintenance

London Living Wage offer also applies to ISS porters, security guards, receptionists and post room staff

Fears remain over the independence of proposed Office for Environmental Protection

Departmental comms blitz will feature radio, catch-up TV and outdoor advertising as Brexit prep continues

Authorities look to Whitehall’s ground-breaking Race Disparity Audit to understand and improve local issues 

Johnson will chair panel to spearhead cross-departmental approach on environmental protection

Help for Heroes recovery director Retired Colonel David Richmond will take on cross-government role

Shadow minister says Boris Johnson’s behaviour is a source of “unease” in civil service

PCS says strike threat prompted creation of dozens of Universal Credit-related jobs

Response to PACAC recommendation says single institution would not meet needs of a modern civil service

Vital civil service role becomes 500th standard approved

Lobby group warns department’s solar-power rollout stats are a hindrance to net-zero ambitions

Department’s contracted-out cleaners, receptionists and security guards remain in talks, says PCS union

Highways England, Network Rail and HS2 will be expected to justify performance-related-pay awards to ministers

Baroness Angela Browning set to complete five-year term at Acoba helm

Update predicts messaging service efficiencies will be £10m a year less than before

Law expert left Department for International Trade last month after being caught in July

Dowden insists Brexit-preparation improvements ‘not about collecting personal data’

Interim GDS chief mixes comedy-writing hobby with day job at government’s premier tech conference

Alison Pritchard also sets out vision for closer working with HM Treasury on next Spending Round

Tracey Crouch also details Whitehall push-back over fixed-odds betting terminals, Brexit's opportunity cost and ‘complete pain in the arse’ Matt Hancock

National Audit Office recognises progress but says ‘significant’ time and budget challenges remain

Union bosses say Peter Schofield needs to understand staff anger after department opted not to seek extra pay flexibility from Treasury

Consolidated award will be worth 11% for some staff at Brexit department

Requiring households to have up to six refuse bins will be expensive to deliver and tough to enforce, committee warns

Latest study also charts nosediving relations between government and parliament

Civil service’s biggest union also calls on Sajid Javid to invest in staff boosts for revenue-raising departments and implement positive pensions changes 

Former Civil Service Learning director to become boss of education charity

Department declares former minister’s resignation pledge project a success

Move follows anger over working conditions and overtime payments, says PCS

Ten-member team to report on case for controversial £55.7bn project by December