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Department insists offer is an improvement on current arrangements for four out of five staff

Union says cap-busting pay rise in return for working-hours flexibilities would see some staff lose out

Standards watchdog raps former foreign secretary for breach of Ministerial Code

DCMS-led document also signals departments will face greater requirement to demonstrate social-value aspects of contracts and grants

Figures also show widening Senior Civil Service gender pay gap and continuing trend of reduced numbers at lower grades

Study of Whitehall staffers shows benefits of moderate alcohol consumption in middle-age

Department says Kensington & Chelsea council will have no role when police conclude investigations

Public Accounts Committee says it has "little confidence" sweeping courts reforms can be delivered

Simon Fraser says civil service can teach MPs lessons on workplace behaviour and predicts intensification of Brexit woes

Report details “scandalous” vacancy levels that see department pay £78m a year on empty units

Departments work with small innovators and big business to help specific groups

Watchdog’s review of post-Brexit regulation, consumer protection and competition flags major issues

Tax agency says it demanded shutdown of 20,000 “malicious” sites over past 12 months

Shadow Cabinet Office minister describes current arrangements as "not fit for purpose"

HM Inspector of Constabulary Wendy Williams will oversee probe of Home Office’s handling of Windrush cases

Tobias Elwood admits ‘shadow of Carillion hangs heavy over departments’ but insists 12-year contract is fully risk assessed

Think tank says Theresa May’s multi-billion-pound pledges will be unsustainable without a realistic plan for raising the cash

Bestseller writer suggests 90% of staff backed Remain and urges them to quit if they cannot deliver the EU referendum result impartially

Ex-Labour health minister Ara Darzi also proposes creation of "single NHS headquarters" to report to Department of Health and Social Care 

Chief inspector of borders and immigration flags ‘inexplicable’ delays and batch-publication of reports

BEIS’s Pocklington heads to Marsham Street as DIT hires banker Mark Slaughter as new investment DG

More than 200 former staff left out of pocket via Voluntary Exit Scheme

Gill Aitken announces departure as tax department flags up success in battling online fraudsters

Lesley Titcomb announces "difficult personal decision" after Carillion and BHS flak

Brexit select committee says nation is cruising towards default ongoing membership post 2020

Institute for Government says refreshed documents still show ministries “trying to do too much” but welcomes diversity focus

Changes to so-called IR35 rules for “off-payroll” workers boost coffers as ministers mull roll-out to private firms 

Dame Judith Hackitt also wants building regulations reviews at least every five years, and for the results to be “user-friendly”

NAO report says spad pushed for Steve Lamey to be hired despite civil servants’ objections

Department accused of lacking cost control as affordability gap opens up in 10-year programme

Minister Greg Hands reveals Berkshire county town as HQ for Trade Remedies Authority

Dave Penman tells union conference conspiracy claims from both ends of political spectrum are a threat to the fabric of Whitehall

MPs urge Defra to admit it has an unmanageable workload and accuse DIT of lacking the capacity to do new trade deals

NHS bosses say Indian doctors are being denied visas to work in the UK because of ‘hostile environment’

Report by former health minister comes as Jeremy Hunt’s call for a long-term settlement for the NHS gains traction

Former immigration chief insists "checks and balances" would prevent wrongful deportations