Under the "delegated" pay framework, which has been in place since the 1990s, individual departments are responsible for ...

Wormald was perm sec at DHSC for almost 10 years before his departure in mid-December . Professor Sir Chris Whitty, the chief ...

Treasury permanent secretary James Bowler has warned MPs that the next instalment of the Whole of Government Accounts is ...

Civil Service Live 2024 was a real highlight for me. Whether I was talking to colleagues in London, Birmingham, Edinburgh or ...

Pressures to accelerate digitalisation in the UK public sector are mounting. PA Consulting experts Ronnie Eriksson, Paul Heaviside and Emilie ...

Public Accounts Committee chair Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown has defended the committee’s “right to raise concerns” after HMRC ...

Campaigners will be blocked from “excessive” challenges to infrastructure projects such as nuclear plants, train lines and ...

Departments and arm's-length bodies are struggling to recruit property specialists, largely due to uncompetitive salaries, ...

“When Boris Johnson became the prime minister – that’s what changed everything.” Sir Mark Lowcock, the longest-serving permanent secretary of the Department for International Development, is ...