Whitehall's "jobs for life" culture must end and underperforming civil servants should face the sack a major independent study says today.

Whitehall mandarins have made a last-ditch effort to halt the publication of the details of spending by civil servants on taxpayer-funded credit cards.

Almost 300 civil servants have earned more than the Prime Minister in the last year, according to government figures.

The government faces a legal challenge over the civil service redundancy scheme after proposed changes were rejected by members of the main Whitehall union.

CIVIL servants in Scotland have been largely protected from the effects of job cuts compared with their counterparts in Whitehall.

The prime minister was asked to create more civil service jobs in Derbyshire following job cuts in the area and concerns over the future of train maker Bombardier.

Whitehall civil servants who tried to keep details of their salaries secret will be made to reveal how much they earn, the Information Commissioner ruled today.

Whitehall should break with 150 years of tradition and allow UK ministers to appoint senior civil servants, says a leading think-tank

CIVIL servants should be put in the firing line if they fail to deliver on projects, a damning report about the state of Whitehall concludes.

Sometimes it can take years for civil servants to get what they want. But with their index-linked trillion-pound pension promises, they can afford to wait. Civil servants may come and civil servants may go. But the civil service lives for ever. And it has all the time in the world. It knows it will win eventually. That slowly-slowly approach to Government means that nothing is ever rejected once a...