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"Shadow" body takes shape ahead of next year's move to centralise ownership of government estate and charge departments market-level rent

Latest government commercial standards focus on building in-house clout and ask departments to justify use of interims

Union research shows Grade 6 staff have seen a 16% pay cut in take-home pay since 2011, amid warnings that rises at lower grades will fail to keep pace with the National Living Wage

Cabinet Office lays amended redundancy scheme before parliament after key unions back a deal – but the Public and Commercial Services union says refusal to extend deadline was an "unnecessary and spiteful insult"

Making a success of Brexit does not mean UK should ditch its reputation as a "free, tolerant, outward facing society", says former Foreign Office permanent secretary

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

Director general for defence and intelligence Sarah MacIntosh to take up posting next year

Constitutional expert and Whitehall historian Lord Hennessy says work must begin now for an official history of the UK’s exit from the European Union

BME officials "need to be part of the decision-making process", says Civil Service Race Forum chair Rob Neil, as he warns that meritocracy remains a "dream" for too many staff

Arif Harbott and Emily Ackroyd joining the GDS, Kevin Cunnington announces

The UK in a Changing Europe​ says there will be "tensions if there is any further bifurcation of salaries in Whitehall" as a result of the drive to recruit specialists for Britain's EU exit. Meanwhile, Cabinet Office confirms Brexit-focused civil service-wide resource review is starting with the Senior civil Service

FDA general secretary Dave Penman tells members he is "proud of what we have been able to achieve through tough negotiations" on shake-up of the civil service redundancy package