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Advance sight of a Cabinet Office review into the civil service's LGBT record, another SNP-Whitehall fracas, and feverish Budget speculation make our regular round-up of Whitehall in the headlines

 Vince Cable confirms Ruth McKernan to step into Iain Gray's shoes at business innovation body

Business minister Matt Hancock appoints Graham Farrant as new chief executive of the Land Registry

Prime minister David Cameron says review body's call to raise salary minima for Pay Band 1 by £2,000 would undermine 'flexibility'

Departments tell National Audit Office cross-government working would be bolstered by better 'support and challenge' at the centre of government

Officials invited to 'speed-dating’ networking event to raise awareness of flexible working options

Centre of government has 'little oversight' of departmental travel policies, the National Audit Office warns

Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude hails £26m-a-year facility-time savings, but Labour's Lucy Powell goes on the attack

Department for Education announces members for commission on new ways to assess pupil ability

Four new members appointed to Nuclear Decommissioning Authority

Sir Patrick Brown appointed as chair of the Oil and Gas Authority

Institute for Government urges greater focus on collaboration and long-term planning

Public Administration Select Committee urges greater role for Cabinet Office in planning for the future and ending departmental duplication

Whitehall should be prepared to take responsibility for delivering programmes, says Troubled Families chief Louise Casey

MoD and NHS England handed fines over workers paid through service companies

Committee urges greater diversity in intelligence agencies

Reports that Equiniti - 51% owners of joint mutual overseeing Whitehall pensions - being sized up for stock market debut or sale

Matt Hancock announces that Jonathon Cave, Nicole Kar, Jeremy Mayhew and Alexander Ehmann will join the independent body

Former NAO director Mark Babington joins Financial Reporting Council 

Defence committee chair stresses warning over Russian expertise

Sir Bob Kerslake to enter the House of Lords

Cabinet Office releases social media guidance to get more officials online

Tensions between ministers and civil servants over autonomy are overstated, David Cameron tells Liaison Committee

The prime minister rejects calls for a review of the public appointments procedure