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If a week is a long time in politics, the 36 months since the Cabinet Office launched its Government Transformation Strategy is a proper age. SA Mathieson unpacks progress to date and casts an eye toward the future

Crown Prosecution Service refuses highest proportion of FOI requests on cost grounds in 2019

Some departments report vast increases following introduction of new data-protection legislation

Department was given central government green light for major outlay on licensing, newly published spending data reveals

Since 2008 departments have been required to report data breaches every year. In this exclusive research, SA Mathieson digs through the numbers to uncover government's biggest security challenges

The National Health Service is sitting on a goldmine of patient information, but identifying how best to tap its rich seams is very much a work in progress. SA Mathieson reports. Photography by Paul Heartfield

Alastair Whitehead, Theresa May's private secretary for home affairs, also shares how he draws on his policing experience for life in Whitehall

We hear how job-sharing can improve engagement and effectiveness – and what the civil service is doing to support it

GOV.UK  revamp will group information by theme, rather than organisation