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Ministers and civil servants to skip most meetings to focus on Brexit preparations, department says

Department to spend up to £300k developing service through Alpha phase

Gove summoned before MPs after leaked dossier warns of fuel, food and medicine shortages

Home secretary wants border restrictions to be imposed immediately after Britain leaves the European Union if no agreement can be struck with the bloc

Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove admits no-deal Brexit would cause ‘bumps in the road’ but says leaks represent worse case scenario

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

Labour leader tells MPs cabinet secretary’s written response to query should inform plans for combatting an election-time EU exit

Department seeks leaders in the areas of digital enablement and cyber risk

Providers told supplies could take up to five days to deliver – up from three days set out in February guidance

Recently launched National Leadership Centre to create online platform allowing leading officials to seek each other out

Think tank also calls for merger of policing watchdogs after warning current set up 'places a heavy bureaucratic burden on individual forces'

Work and pensions select committee chair asks if DWP network will benefit from no-deal Brexit prep funding

Johnson said the Treasury would provide £2.5bn to increase prison spaces

Creation of rapid rebuttal unit around UK’s EU exit in addition to existing work to respond to fake news

Civil servants told to 'communicate clearly with the British people about what our plans for taking back control mean'

Department tells staff it hears their concerns as union reacts to imposition of 2019-20 settlement

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

Former civil servant Steve O'Neil takes a fresh look at the appliance of science at the heart of government

Nobel prizewinners say no-deal Brexit will damage UK science despite Johnson pledge

Union dubs department tasked with enforcing National Living Wage ‘morally bankrupt’ for treatment of staff

Jeremy Corbyn says departure would contravene principle that government doesn’t implement policies in an election period where the opposition has a different view

Treasury announcement shows departments could be expected to make further cuts

Union says it has secured a pledge from Cabinet Office and demands funding rethink following Boris Johnson’s spending pledges

Figures from Prospect trade union come as government plans review of pension tax rules for public sector after NHS reforms