Minister says the department will target back-office costs and aim to build a 'leaner, more efficient, and highly skilled ...

The very first app version of GOV.UK has launched today on smartphones, kickstarting a new way for people to interact with government services. The app has launched initially in “public beta”, meaning ...

Emran Mian has been appointed as the new permanent secretary at the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology. The ...

Government is banking on the success of its health mission to stem the tide of health-related benefit claims. But is the ...

Starmer’s missions can succeed, but only if ministers build a system that links purpose to pounds, and pounds to people’s ...

A junior Home Office staff member has been jailed for offering to grant asylum applications in exchange for thousands of pounds in bribes. Imran Mulla, of Moorfield Avenue, Blackburn, worked as an ...

Committee of Selection – Christian Wakeford added; Vicky Foxcroft discharged. House of Lords Viscount Waverley (Crossbench, hereditary peer) retired from the Lords on 23 June. Lord Redesdale was a ...

The Scotland Office has appointed a senior civil servant in the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero as its new director. Fiona Mettam, currently director for energy development at the ...

Talk about mission government and you will likely hear a version of JFK’s famous "we choose to go to the moon" declaration. Less discussed is his reference to the "staggering sum" involved or the ...

Former senior civil servants have warned the government’s new rules on senior officials speaking in public are "outrageous" ...

Civil service commits to give staff who are dying 'the security of work, peace of mind and the right to choose the best ...

Devereux said that the ONS had a “commendable interest” in new approaches to statistics and ensuring the relevance of its activities to wider political debate. But he said this had resulted in ...