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The Open Data Institute (ODI) has named Gavin Starks as its Chief Executive Officer and Jeni Tennison as Technical Director.
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Katherine Kerswell has today joined the Cabinet Office as Director General for Civil Service Reform.
William Shawcross CVO has been appointed as the new Chair of the Charity Commission.
Godric Smith has been appointed interim Executive Director of Government Communications at Cabinet Office until the end of the year.
The government is now more than halfway through the first wave of its quango reform programme, saving at least £1.4bn for the taxpayer.
The government has saved more than £5.5 billion for the taxpayer during the last year, Francis Maude announced today.
The new Permanent Secretary of the Cabinet Office, Richard Heaton, takes up his new role today.
Francis Maude announced the first award from the government's new Contestable Policy Fund.
The latest 'Mystery Shopper' cases reveal three new cases where payment issues for SMEs have been successfully resolved.
Information published today on government services is a crucial step towards using data to drive performance improvements and cut costs.
Stuart Andrew MP has been appointed as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister for the Cabinet Office.
A consultation about paid time off work for trade union duties and activities for civil servants has been launched.
Up to 150 civil servants from across Whitehall can work from a new office space in Croydon during the Olympics and Paralympics.
Francis Maude today visited the first hospice in England to be run by its staff as a mutual - the John Taylor Hospice, Birmingham.
More than 2,000 miles of historic canals and rivers across England and Wales are being handed over to the Canal & River Trust.
A discussion with firms from across West Sussex about making it easier for small and medium-sized enterprises win public sector contracts.
Francis Maude has today recognised the progress made and set out the challenge ahead to senior government buyers as the first centrally managed contract went live.
Francis Maude has today announced that Bill Crothers will be appointed as the government's Chief Procurement Officer.
Today’s first meeting of the Open Data User Group (ODUG) has been hailed as an important step in the government's open data revolution.
Executive Director for Government Communication, Jenny Grey, is to leave the cvil service to take up a new post at Citigroup.
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