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Policy Exchange urges government to get on with setting up UK ARPA as science minister Chris Skidmore says it could be formed this year

Housing, education and transport are key areas for boosted local control with majority in favour of elected mayors

PM will say Brexit is not an end but the beginning of ‘national renewal and change’

Cat's out of the bag: department confirms plans to find feline to keep the mouse population down at Caxton House

MAC also warns access to data is "perennial problem" in scrutinising policy

Transport secretary Grant Shapps said decision represented “the first small step towards the north taking back control of its railways”

Think-tank points to Cummings’ civil service reform agenda and debate on the union as key work areas

Data shows most ministries have made progress but only one has no pay gap

Chinese vendor will remain excluded from so-called core areas of the network

Grant Shapps vows to 'undo the damage' of 1960s Beeching rail cuts with £500m fund to reopen axed lines

Around one third of UK citizens said they had looked at EU exit info, a figure "broadly unchanged” during the campaign, say auditors

Boris Johnson to take personal charge of post-Brexit trade talks supported by a 'small and agile' new unit

New appointments in the civil service, UK politics, and public affairs, via our colleagues at Dods People

Nigel Topping will coordinate regional and business input ahead of COP26 talks in Glasgow

One report remains unpublished six months after it was submitted to the department

Appointment will replace Robert Chote, who has led fiscal watchdog since 2010

National Audit Office says department and delivery firm underestimated the task of delivering new rail network

Procurement vehicle to offer services and tools to assist citizens that struggle with digital

Plans for reform also include consistent use of cross-disciplinary teams in departments as contracts are signed

More than two-thirds surveyed predict a surge in business from government, councils and health service

'Brexit will be the dominant driver of the underlying business of this government,' Rycroft predicts

Move would reverse policy set out by Theresa May

Tax agency looks to invest in cryptoanalysis tool

Awards champion hails work of civil servants at start of a week-long programme to recognise winners