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Freight service will transport medical supplies with short shelf lives like radioisotopes and human organs

Transport secretary also reveals Northern franchise could be nationalised over contractor's poor performance

Newcastle City Council chief to help manage cross-government property efficiency drive

Whitehall property chief Mike Parsons tells Civil Service World about the challenges and opportunities of managing the government’s property portfolio 

Government won't fly in medicines in first batch of contracts awarded through £300m post-Brexit framework

Fifty-strong list of individuals and teams reveals those in the running for honours in the 14th annual Civil Service Awards

Tax agency issues two contract notices for design and delivery specialists

Government says updated freight capacity procurement ahead of planned 31 October exit has avoided problems that led to settlement

Watchdog says disruption cannot be ruled out despite health secretary Matt Hancock's guarantee

Organisations won't be told if their grant applications are through to the next stage until November

DfT says freight services will avoid Dover, Folkestone or Barking, where Brexit disruption is likely

Government chief commercial officer says guidance will help officials "work towards eliminating modern slavery" in supply chains

Probe comes after trade secretary apologises "unreservedly for the error" in granting two licences

IfG highlights outsourcing failures, but concludes blanket reversal would lose benefits of approach

Agency selects Deloitte, PA Consulting, and Cognizant for apparent ‘bench’ arrangements to provide on-demand personnel

Civil service chief says that assurance panel reflects the speed of the campaign launch

Cabinet Office details full brief of Simon Hart and other Cabinet Office ministers

Launch of initiative follows troubled engagement with Capita

Virgin Trains, which has run the line since privatisation, loses out to new operator including Italian state-owned firm

Bids sought after G4S contract was extended despite revelations of abuse at Brook House

Incoming chair pledges to "partner more effectively with private sector suppliers" at defence buying body

£300m spending cap accounts for possible frequency of “disruption events”, including border delays

Shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer also raises prospect of a Brexit public inquiry under a Labour government

Some surprising figures have invited management consultants into Whitehall over the past six decades, although their private-sector expertise has not always been directed where it was needed most