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Strategy aims to standardise household recycling and introduce weeky food waste collections
The Home Affairs Committee urged the government to pay greater attention to its "duty of care" as it prepares to hand out £4bn worth of new contracts.
John Manzoni and Sir Mark Sedwill share "inconvenient" warnings about "disorderly" no-deal Brexit.
Vallance also announced he had appointed a chief scientific adviser to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.
“This role is critical to our transformation as a department servicing around 20 million citizens each year,” according to the job advert.
Chief scientific advisers provide vital expertise to help departments make informed policy decisions – not least during national emergencies. But to be effective, they must also be experts in the workings of Whitehall. Beckie Smith spoke to CSAs past and present to discover how they combine these distinctive skills.
The government chief scientific adviser reflects on his career to date and strengthening how science and policy work together in the civil service
Review follows the revelation that senior officials failed to take notes in important meetings because of concerns about media scrutiny
Home Office immigration enforcement DG Tyson Hepple confirmed the department had been talking to non-governmental organisations about how to add independent oversight
The committee also warned that uncertainty about future border arrangements "will make it extremely challenging for the Home Office" to prepare for the future
The Home Office showed "little inclination to look seriously" at its resourcing for translating documents, David Bolt said.
Lines of accountability 'failed or simply did not exist' report finds
“There were warning signs from enough different sources, over a long enough period, to collectively indicate a potential problem that merited further investigation," say auditors
Boyd said he has helped to develop a "increasing appreciation of the embeddedness and the importance of science in Defra".
The government also rejected the committee's call for MPs to vote on controversial appointments
The department's top scientist, who will advise on fire safety post-Grenfell, must have an engineering background, government CSA Patrick Vallance said.
Union says it will fight “tooth and nail” to prevent any publicly-run prisons from transferring into the hands of private operators
The PAC also warned of a “significant and growing risk” that DfT would not be adequately prepared for a no-deal Brexit.
A telephone helpline set up by the Home Office to deal with cases has so far received 25 calls about inappropriate demands for DNA evidence.
No matter the circumstances, "we rise up and we meet the challenge," says NICS chief after a tough two years for public officials.
The successful candidate for the £160,000 a year role will "build on the momentum and progress made in recent years", according to the job advert
A plan to tackle organised crime, an investment strategy and gender pay gap reporting rules were all awaiting sign-off.
MPs warn that rushing the managed migration process and getting it wrong could accelerate destitution
As part of our series profiling up-and-coming leaders in the civil service, Marsha Osivwemu, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs’s natural environment portfolio head, tells Beckie Smith how she defied her own expectations to climb the ranks of central government and how she’s pulling up others behind her
'Low achievement by prisons against inspectorate recommendations has been a feature at some of the prisons that have caused most concern', a spokesperson said.
Penny Mordaunt said the GEO's work would "broaden out" to ensure it supported women "at every stage of their lives".
The trust gap between officials and ministers is the widest it has been in the survey's history
Environment secretary set to stay on at department but report outlines scale of tasks ahead
Government urged to boost life chances for youngsters battling adversity and save money at the same time
The government said it would "think creatively about current and future challenges relating to cyber skills" in response to a joint select committee report.
The reform "continues to incentivise single parents... to reduce working hours", according to the Resolution Foundation think tank
Treasury spending teams should be "more involved in challenging the benefits of projects", says auditor general
Peers urge chancellor Philip Hammond to drop plans to extend the window in which HMRC can investigate taxpayers’ affairs if they had some tax dealings outside the UK
With no evidence to support the claim that benefit sanctions help get more people into work, the committee said they were 'nothing other than arbitrarily punitive'
Transport committee approves fomer airport chief as rail regulator chair
DWP extends legacy payouts after watchdog's warning that claimants transferring onto Universal Credit would face financial hardship