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Core department announces plans to merge three London offices in favour of single site in Westminster

Majority of departments will be asked to create new apprenticeships equivalent to 2.3% of their overall staffing levels, BIS confirms

DfE's Wormald to take on top job at the Department of Health from April

Dieter Helm, chair of the advisory Natural Capital Committee, urges creation of a new "smaller, more tightly focussed Environment Protection agency"

Latest workforce data from the Office for National Statistics shows civil service shrank by 1.4% in Q3

Welsh first minister says there is “no real machinery for a regular heads of government meeting” – as Silk Commission chair reveals he considered calling for separate civil service.

Committee on Standards in Public Life aims to help commissioners spot the signs of unethical conduct

Report by former deputy governor of the Bank of England says 90% of ONS staff were “unwilling to move” out of London, leading to a “loss of knowledge and experience”

Former head of the civil service drafts in TUC chief Frances O'Grady and ex-KPMG deputy Alan Buckle to assess whether the Treasury is "fit for purpose"

Institute for Fiscal Studies says talk of "end to austerity" is premature

Foreign Affairs Committee chair Crispin Blunt welcomes “better outcome than had been feared” for the FCO

Tim Loughton says DfE officials questioned making a “special case” of the Kids Company charity – while Cabinet Office minister Oliver Letwin is quizzed on where the “buck stops” for its final round of public funding

National Cyber Centre to open in Cheltenham, George Osborne announces, amid flurry of security spending announcements in the wake of the Paris terror attacks

Geoffrey Spence to step aside as Infrastructure UK merged with major projects watchdog

Garry Graham – taking over from Leslie Manasseh at the union for specialists and managers – calls for "cool appraisal" of performance management by ministers

Former cabinet secretary and head of the civil service clashes with Lib Dem chief whip over plans to obstruct tax credit cuts in the House of Lords

Four ex-Government Digital Service staff join their old boss at the Co-op

Exclusive: Committee chair tells CSW inclusion of the word "instructions" gives "new potential for conflict" between Spads and permanent officials – but minister says changes will help departments become more "orderly and organised"

Home secretary says it is right that cabinet ministers are "not making comments" on Heathrow's third runway until final government decision

Camila Batmanghelidjh tells MPs there has been an "enormous amount of leaking from government offices" over charity's financial management

MoJ will not seek single supplier for debt collection – and department confirms it will keep enforcement in-house

Lord Bridges says digital agenda will be top of the list for the civil service's new HR chief – while Labour's Chi Onwurah tries to dig up figures on the scale of recent GDS exits

Latest Office for National Statistics figures document the changing shape of civil service working patterns, pay, and diversity

Lord Adonis to head up new body modelled on the independent Office for Budget Responsibility

What’s the opposite of outsourcing? Insourcing, of course – and the DVLA has just given it a go. As the driver agency moves more than 300 IT staff in-house, Matt Foster caught up with chief executive Oliver Morley and outgoing chief technology officer Iain Patterson

Opposition's deputy leader named as new shadow minister for the Cabinet Office

Simon McDonald, UK ambassador to Germany since 2010, to take up post as FCO's most senior official from September

Business secretary tells MPs that flagship coalition project will be moved out of the public sector to allow it to borrow more and "grow its business"

Special report: Ministers made bold promises about the impact of mutualisation on civil service pensions. But as Matt Foster reports, administrator MyCSP has left some retired officials tearing their hair out

Report by the National Audit Office says Department for Work and Pensions must get better at spotting potential problems with big schemes

New business secretary promises expansion of anti-regulation scheme in new enterprise bill

Before Margaret Hodge returned to being simply the Labour candidate for Barking, she spoke to Matt Foster about HMRC, claims of grandstanding and her high-profile time as chair of the Public Accounts Committee. Photos by Paul Heartfield

Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude confirms that Standard Life's Sir Gerry Grimstone will review work of the Office of the Commissioner for Public Appointments

Minister for the Cabinet Office Francis Maude, who is stepping down as an MP in May, tells Sky News there is a 'huge amount' of work left to do

Prime minister David Cameron says review body's call to raise salary minima for Pay Band 1 by £2,000 would undermine 'flexibility'

Departments tell National Audit Office cross-government working would be bolstered by better 'support and challenge' at the centre of government