When you’re routinely being trashed in the press and constitutionally unable to defend yourself, the temptation has been for ...

Think tank identifies 100 organisations that could be brought back in house, including DVLA and the Government Property ...

Scottish Law Commission – Prof Gillian Black re-appointed as commissioner for three years from 22 April until 21 April 2028.

Northern Ireland’s finance minister has pledged that the roll out of artificial intelligence in government will not be solely ...

Around four in five civil servants believe the 60% in-office mandate has been a failure, according to a survey by the FDA union.

Since his latest inauguration and the subsequent installation of Elon Musk as efficiency tsar, the world has been looking on with fascination as Donald Trump systematically dismantles public services ...

A spat has opened up between a watchdog committee of MPs and peers and senior Cabinet Office minister Pat McFadden over access to newly appointed national security adviser Jonathan Powell. The Joint ...

The Ministry of Justice is failing to take the urgent action it needs to reduce a record-high backlog of cases in crown courts, a group of MPs has said. In a stern report today, the Public Accounts ...

Department for Science, Innovation and Technology permanent secretary Sarah Munby has announced that she will leave the civil service this summer. Munby joined government from global consultancy ...

The government has announced a new defence body which it says will simplify and streamline the innovation system's interaction with the Ministry of Defence. The defence innovation unit, to be launched ...

HMRC is expecting to deliver around £700m in efficiency savings this financial year, against a target of £719m. The department was asked in the 2021 Spending Review to achieve annual cost savings of ...

The Department of Health and Social Care is launching a delivery unit that promises to tackle some of the NHS’s most pressing problems. The secretary of state's delivery unit will sit within DHSC and ...