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Appointment means government’s biggest professional grouping will be one of only two headed up by a departmental perm sec

Details of additional Brexit funding also reveal £1m transfer of funds following Oliver Robbins’s move to the Cabinet Office

The fall of construction firm turned outsourcing giant Carillion comes at a time when criticism of private provision of public services is rising. Richard Johnstone looks at Whitehall’s response and takes soundings for the future

Move follows Public Accounts Committee observation that up-front borrowing could have reduced the cost to consumers of the £20bn Hinkley Point C project

Call for changes to insolvency rules to make it easier for companies to recover from financial difficulties

David Jones said there was a “huge improvement across the board in the preparedness of departments” in the first year following the creation of DExEU

Proposals indicate that the firm, which went out of business last month, expected to be able to get double its profit margins on some Whitehall contracts

Nationalising the service currently operated by Virgin Trains is one of two options for services after franchise “got its sums wrong”

Intervention by three former civil service chiefs comes after leading Brexiteers accused the Treasury off fiddling figures to maintain a close relationship with the EU

Union slammed DExEU minister Steve Baker after he refused to dismiss “conspiracy theory” claims of civil service bias

Vote by parliament to release analysis comes after it was leaked to media

Labour warns of another outsourcing crisis after third major government contractor issues profit warning

Lombardelli will take up post in April following departure of Sir David Ramsden

New programme intended to help ensure government gets what it pays from suppliers, says CCS chief Malcolm Harrison

Submission to Cabinet Office minister David Lidington claims that increase is needed to offset cumulative £1.7bn loss in civil service pay since 2010

Unions set to raise issue of workload pressures with Defra secretary of state at first meeting since 2010

1,000 staff to transfer from collapsed outsourcing provider to new Whitehall-owned company to maintain work across 52 prisons

Debate on how to deliver public services hears that the era of choice and competition may be coming to an end

Plan also proposes “radically” reducing pay differentials between director general roles across departments, but any pay increase above the 1% cap in 2018-19 will need to be paid for by productivity improvements

IfG Whitehall Monitor also highlighted the impact that ministerial turnover is having in policy delivery, including Brexit

Appointment is one of a number of posts announced in a reshuffle of top roles in the Northern Ireland Civil Service

Perm sec Richard Heaton admitted to being “startled and stunned” by the over-ambitious scheme

Think tank has called on the government to undertake “thorough review of the public sector’s relationship with contractors” amid sector’s woes.

FDA union for senior civil servants to write to Defra secretary of state to ask for an explanation of the “unhelpful and inaccurate” comments made in Cabinet

Request is a first in providing statutory cover for Brexit outlay ahead of EU-exit legislation clearing parliament

Next stage in HMCTS modernisation programme could see eight closures

Review of the role of non-executives concludes that few Whitehall boards are working well

Best practice in government statistics award renamed in honour of former RSS president Sir Harry Campion

Cabinet Office has reportedly been monitoring the firm since last September amid fears for future

Confirmation of the new ministerial portfolios following last week’s reshuffle reveals switch in ministerial responsibilities for public appointments

David Lidington said it would not have been responsible for the government to bail out the firm that works on rail projects as well as managing prisons and providing school meals

Public Accounts Committee says that HMRC’s wide-ranging reform plans have been thrown into doubt by its extra Brexit workload

Whitehall update on English devolution sets out details of devolved funding areas in 2016-17

Entire ministerial team at the central Whitehall department changes as Theresa May completes wide-ranging government reshuffle

Reform hailed as evidence of One Team government approach to improving how Whitehall works

Chancellor refuses to rule out the UK remaining in a customs union with the EU after leaving the bloc