Plan to cut thousands of civil service jobs in radical government shake-up
Exclusive: Proposals also include cutting thousands of civil service jobs and restructuring NHS England
Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
UK politics: MPs highlight ITN’s use of NDAs in employment rights debate – as it happened
Louise Haigh and Layla Moran cite broadcaster in arguing for amendment that would ban such agreements that stopped staff revealing harassment
Stop ‘outsourcing’ decisions to quangos, Starmer tells cabinet
Prime minister’s comments come ahead of speech on state reform and expected Whitehall job cuts
November 2024
Labour’s new public bodies are likely to come at a high cost, thinktank finds
At least 17 state agencies to be created or overhauled, a challenge the IfG says will require major investment
August 2024
From energy to football: the quangos being set up by Labour
Keir Starmer’s new public bodies reflect his style of government. We take a look at the more than a dozen planned
November 2021
Government critics blocked from senior public roles, ex-Tory minister claims
Anna Soubry claims she was overlooked for high-profile jobs because of her opposition to Brexit and criticism of Boris Johnson
February 2021
Defence research agency for 'high-risk' projects on cards for UK
Laws to pave way for ‘brainchild’ project of Dominic Cummings – exempt from FoI law and allotted £800m funding
November 2018
Heritage at Risk list adds knights' cave and Grimsby's Kasbah
Historic England register also adds Huddersfield’s first infirmary and ‘an almost perfect Victorian museum’
December 2016
Equality for women in theatre and the arts
Letters: The status quo, where male experience dominates British theatre, will continue as long as this unelected quango refuses to challenge such sexual apartheid
April 2016
The Society interview
Alison Seabrooke: ‘This isn’t the end for local activism’
The head of the axed Community Development Foundation on how local organisations already hit by cuts will have to pick up the slack
December 2015
More than 300 senior public officials paid more than David Cameron
Taking out the trash: how spin doctors wrangle the news
November 2015
It's every Whitehall department for itself in spending review scuffle
David Walker
Spending decisions ignore evidence in favour of politics, as the horsetrading over plans to slash budgets for scientific research shows
May 2014
Other lives
Richard Crossley obituary
Other lives: Champion of tenants through his work setting up the National Tenant Voice and other community projects
April 2014
Labour questions appointment of bankrupt businessman to quango
Tony Caplin resigns as chair of Public Works Loans Board after it is revealed he was bankrupted in 2012
