I'm not sure that Civil Servants should line up en masse at their Departments' doors to applaud new Secretaries of State when they arrive for the first time. None the less, Treasury civil servants did so to greet Gordon Brown...

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...

THOUSANDS of civil servants will stage a second day of strikes in Scotland today, walking out in a dispute over proposed cuts to redundancy pay.

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.

The Scottish Parliament's most senior civil servants will be the first casualties of swingeing spending cuts at Holyrood.

TOP Scottish civil servants are among a list of 172 leading civil servants earning more than £150,000 published yesterday.

Golden goodbyes for civil servants are to be curtailed – saving up to £500m over three years – amid a government drive to bring remuneration into line with the private sector

Civil servants paid £47 million in performance bonuses this year as the Government faces charges of failing to provide British troops with adequate support and equipment on the front line in Afghanistan.

Labour and Plaid members are called "silly" for refusing to cross a civil service picket line for an assembly debate.

A HOLYROOD committee looks set to call for an investigation into the actions of top civil servants after accusations that they are actively supporting independence.