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civilserviceworld.com | Jim Dunton |Sienna Rodgers |Sophie Church
It has been derided as the Frankenstein’s monster of Whitehall: an ungainly collection of limbs, animated in madness, its fleeting autonomy as tragic as it is doomed. That its current political head is also reportedly being readied for the chop by the rival that pipped her to the top job has made the narrative irresistible.
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5 days ago |
civilserviceworld.com | Beckie Smith |Dave Penman
The Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee has launched a new inquiry into propriety and ethics in government. The committee will use the inquiry to examine the progress made so far on the government’s manifesto commitments to raise standards of ethics and integrity in government and to restore trust between the public and politics. These include setting up an ethics and integrity commission with an independent chair “to ensure probity in government”.
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civilserviceworld.com | Jim Dunton
Ministers have given their backing to all 62 recommendations in the just-published Strategic Defence Review 2025 – including a commitment to reduce the Ministry of Defence’s civil service costs by “at least 10%” by 2030. The latest SDR also includes calls to ramp up the UK’s capacity for uncrewed and autonomous defence systems – such as drones – and for a “comprehensive approach” to improving industrial productivity that supports the UK’s nuclear deterrent.
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6 days ago |
civilserviceworld.com | Beckie Smith |Jim Dunton
The Ministry of Justice is setting up a new probation and reoffending directorate to bring policy work on the two areas closer together and respond to growing demand for the two services. The directorate will provide “significant policy input” to deliver justice secretary Shabana Mahmood’s priority of using technology solutions to manage offenders in the community, according to a job advert for a director to lead the team.
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civilserviceworld.com | Beckie Smith |Tevye Markson
A former acting permanent secretary at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has returned from a decade-long hiatus from the civil service to become deputy chair of Natural England. Peter Unwin, who left Defra in 2015, took up his new role on 1 April and will stay in the post until 31 December, the non-departmental public body has announced. He has been a board member at Natural England since 2020.
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