PCS members who work for the MoD are being urged to vote no to the current pay offer. More details and ways to take part in the campaign can be found on the PCS website and the key reasons why the...

Following a series of recent press articles on DTR, PCS have responded to MoD’s attempts to gag its representatives: MoD seeks to gag PCS representatives from speaking to the press. PCS responds. Introduction read more

So John Hutton goes from Defence and is going back to the backbenches. Shaun Woodward into his seat? Another Blairite bites the dust? Update: BBC reporting this as a resignation, but Hutton is saying it is not an "attack" on Brown. Update II: "family reasons"

According to the Guardian, John Hutton, talking yesterday to a conference on national security, referred to...... battle-winning capabilities like our special forces, which can help disrupt networks of terror that threaten our national security. John Hutton is Secretary of State...

Following today’s result on the ballot on the MoD pay offer the following letter has been sent to the MoD: I am writing to inform you of the result of the recent PCS pay ballot on the above...

The Prime Minister s Spokesman (PMS) began with an update on Cabinet this morning. There was a presentation from Jack Straw on the ongoing work on the Bill of Rights; an update from John Hutton following on from his visits to Afghanistan and Iraq; an update from the Foreign Secretary on Zimbabwe and an update from the Prime Minister and the Chancellor on the economy, including information on meeti...

Tony Blair had his "Big Tent". Gordon Brown his "GOATs". Now George Osborne has shown that he sees the value of attracting talent from the opposition to work for the government. John Hutton, former Labour Secretary of State for Defence, Work and Pensions and Trade and Industry, is to write a report for the coalition on how to cut the cost of pensions for public sector workers. Last week the Office...

Ever since I saw it in The Sunday Times, I knew I would have to write about it. I have been putting it off, but the moment has come. The subject, of course, is the bizarre statement by our new secretary of state for defence John Hutton who, according to the paper, has "become the first defence secretary to back a French plan for a European army, branding those who dismiss it as 'pathetic'...

Ever since I saw it in The Sunday Times, I knew I would have to write about it. I have been putting it off, but the moment has come. The subject, of course, is the bizarre statement by our new secretary of state for defence John Hutton who, according to the paper, has "become the first defence secretary to back a French plan for a European army, branding those who dismiss it as 'pathetic'...

PCS who have 16,000 members in the MoD welcomed yesterday's report by the Public Accounts Committee, which heavily criticises the MoD'S £7 billion Defence Information Infrastructure (DII) project.