This is not an era of job security for civil servants. The National Audit Office (NAO) notes that 114,000 Full Time Equivalent (FTE) staff from the civil service are expected to leave between 2010 and 2015 – a reduction of 23%. Our latest Whitehall Monitor report shows that there has already been a reduction...

Published discretely alongside the refreshed departmental business plans was a dull but incredibly important annex (PDF, 431KB) that set out a line-by-line audit trail of changes to the original business plans. For each change the original action is listed alongside the new text and, crucially, an account of why the changes had been made.