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Use of gagging clauses ends to improve "debate, transparency and exchange of information"

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

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

Prime minister's spokesperson insists ‘the UK will be leaving the EU on October 31 whatever the circumstances’

Document contradicts legally-binding code of practice for scheme, which the High Court ruled in March breachs human rights law

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

Plans will include "one of the biggest peacetime public information campaigns this country has seen"

Former DfE spad and Vote Leave chief Dominic Cummings set for key role as first cabinet appointments exepcted today

Liz Truss says IR35 regulations for the whole public sector render specific oversight for departments unnecessary

Bernard Jenkin highlights the way Margaret Thatcher worked with the civil service to implement major policy changes as example for incoming PM

Agreement reached as Deloitte fined £4.2m over its auditing of the outsourcing giant during the scandal

Javid gives go-ahead after perm sec Rutnam says his approval is needed for payments in absence of legislation

Cabinet secretary says that leaks are ‘incredibly damaging for the overall integrity of the civil service’

Site due to go live next year

Regulator publishes Openness by Design three-year plan

Appeal had led to delay in revelation of the civil service pension scheme

Report commissioned by the department says civil servants were ‘rightly appalled by what happened’ but this was ‘often juxtaposed with a self-justification’

£940,000 bill does not include VAT or cost of departmental officials' time

Theresa May announces boost to powers of Competition and Markets Authority to improve protection for consumers

MPs say a new department for constitutional affairs should take on the UK government’s role in devolved areas

May will step down as Conservative leader on 7 June, but will remain head of government until a new leader is in place

NAO report also reveals the department considered it was unlikely to be able defend any action against it for breaching procurement rules

Department confirms the move, which it says will allow it to prioritise most vulnerable cases

Department gets rid of data where it did not have ‘explicit consent’ of users