Civil Service World

FCDO aid transparency downgraded in international ranking

The decline follows sweeping cuts to foreign aid and "lack of project objectives"

Pension scheme crisis: Public Accounts Committee launches inquiry

MPs will question Cabinet Office and Capita leadership on Civil Service Pension Scheme failures, and also open a portal for people directly affected to share their experiences

The National Commission on Electoral Reform's credibility will be decided before it starts

A year’s careful work could give the country a settlement capable of lasting generation

No.10 North roles up for grabs as hiring bonanza launches

Burnham team seeks two deputy directors, a head of strategic comms and a tranche of more junior posts for new Manchester base

Hybrid by design: The careers 'low code' is quietly creating in government

Most priorities the civil service is now being asked to deliver depend on people who can hold more than one professional lens at once. But hybrid careers will not sustain themselves on goodwill alone

GPA appoints DSIT job-share duo as joint chief operating officer

Government Property Agency says the pair “established the success of this working model” as people and transformation directors at the science department

DHSC details soaring spend on exit packages

Departures cost almost £800m in 2025-26 amid transformation that includes abolition of NHS England

Defra names choice for next Environment Agency chair

Lisa Tennant, senior board member of Scotland’s principal environmental regulator, emerges as preferred candidate for EA role

The 2026 Budget begins to put the strategic state into practice

Devolution measures and protection for prevention are useful advances. The 2027 Spending Review now needs to connect them to realistic service plans

MoD hires Deloitte partner as first DG for innovation

Anthony Reeves, who will oversee £1.6bn defence innovation budget, says his approach is "mindset before toolset”

Coroner's concerns over disciplinary procedures prompts cross-government review

Cabinet Office and HM Treasury outline action taken to address concerns raised by coroner following the death of Treasury official

Latest civil service & public affairs moves – 2 November

Appointments in the civil service, UK politics, and public affairs, via Dods People

Budget 2026: Green Book update formalises discount-rate reduction

Treasury says move will “strengthen the case for transformational projects that drive growth, wherever they take place”

Sarah Munby: An unconventional leader who advocates being bold and challenging hierarchies

An "outsider" who got her first role in government as director general at BEIS in 2019 following fifteen years in the private sector, Sarah Munby in 2020 became the youngest permanent secretary ever...

Starmer government could have done more to make missions work, MPs are told

Think tank says bad decisions and lack of prime ministerial focus killed key manifesto drive

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Budget 2026: Healey announces return of Better Regulation Executive

Joint Treasury and OPMC unit will oversee vision for “streamlined and proportionate” regulatory system

Head of Policy and Technical Expertise

New stats show 91% of last year’s civil service headcount growth came outside of London

Figures also reveal that more than 24,000 jobs have now been relocated under the Places for Growth programme

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