A comprehensive overhaul of how government does digital creates an opportunity to give citizens back their time, at the times ...

Procurement systems should be like good software: fluid, flexible, and constantly evolving. Realising this transformation ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

No civil servant who has endured the last decade can come away from that experience without being a little bit scarred. They’ve witnessed governments who have played fast and loose with our ...

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 ...

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 ...

For Gareth Davies, permanent secretary at the Department for Business and Trade, this is personal. Speaking at a lecture given to mark the start of a partnership between his department and the Policy ...

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 ...

In 2014, I was asked to form one of the first innovation labs in the UK, the Northern Ireland Public Sector Innovation Lab. Operating at devolved government level, the aim was to create a safe space ...

Porton Biopharma, a drug development and production company owned by the Department of Health and Social Care, will be shut down, CSW can reveal. The firm was part of Public Health England (the ...