Whitehall must return to work
More than two years after it began, for the great majority of people the pandemic is over. There are still thousands contracting Covid every day but for…
Stop working from home, Jacob Rees-Mogg to tell Civil Service
Ministers have been ordered to send their civil servants back to the office after it emerged that up to three-quarters of staff are still working from home….
Stop working from home, Civil Service to be told
Ministers have been ordered to send their civil servants back to the office after it emerged that up to three-quarters of staff are still working from home….
Exclusive: Government’s former ethics chief Helen MacNamara fined over ‘raucous’ karaoke party during lockdown
Police launched a criminal investigation into the ‘partygate’ allegations in January and have been looking at gatherings on eight separate dates between 20 May 2020 and 16…
Let civil servants work around the school run, says union
Steve Barclay, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, wrote to the permanent secretary of every department at the end of January saying that government departments should…
Civil service job cuts will slice away ‘many layers’ of middle management
Civil service cuts will target “many layers” of middle management, a minister has said, as the Government vowed to improve diversity so officials better represent the general…
Former civil servant convicted of stalking ex-colleague after camping outside Whitehall with ‘waiting for my Wilko’ placard
‘I felt quite violated’ Mr Wilkinson, a Deputy Director for Analysis, told Westminster Magistrates’ Court she began to contact him shortly after leaving the department and insisted…
Civil servants ‘subvert and sabotage’ ministers by defying order to scrap unconscious bias training
The Civil Service has defied ministers to keep mandatory “unconscious bias” training despite the Government scrapping it a year ago for being ineffective, The Telegraph can disclose….