Energy & Environment

Job spec states that the candidate will be required to lead the shift from a policy department to a greater operational focus

International development committee says a major shift in aid spending is needed to match the "existential threat" of climate change

Deadline is achievable but requires a concerted push, including government backing for carbon capture and storage technologies, committee says

Committee report says legislation fails to ensure the Office for Environmental Protection will be truly independent

Environment secretary also reveals rising number of secondments from Natural England

Interim secretariat of 16 civil servants won't fulfil all of planned regulator's functions, environment secretary tells MPs

Unison says 1.3% pay offer from EA had been “unsurprisingly and overwhelmingly” rejected by staff

Consultation seeks views on whether the UK should develop its own infrastructure finance institution after Brexit

Devolved administration perm sec requests oversight from Michael Gove's proposed Office for Environmental Protection

Committees endorse government's choice to lead environmental protection agency but tell Defra to "learn lessons" from recruitment round

Committee chair Rachel Reeves said BEIS had been “too passive” in ensuring suppliers address problems with the rollout

Public Accounts Committee demands clarity on how Whole of Government Accounts will present EU exit spending

UK Supreme Court rejects request for NI attorney general for clarification on powers, saying they should be addressed in court case.

Cross-departmental plan intends to cut the societal cost of pollution by £5.3bn annually by 2030

Committee also calls on government to embed UN sustainable development goals in departmental plans

Committee chair Rachel Reeves urged the regulator Ofgem to take harsher action against suppliers that don't fulfil their obligations under the programme.

The COO must have the "drive and vision to lead transformation across a diverse and dispersed group of organisations", the job ad says

With the end of 2018 fast approaching, we asked the UK's top civil servants to look back at the year, outline their goals for 2019 – and tell us who would turn on their town’s Christmas lights.

Strategy aims to standardise household recycling and introduce weeky food waste collections

Boyd said he has helped to develop a "increasing appreciation of the embeddedness and the importance of science in Defra".

Three government departments collaborated to organise a major international conference on illegal wildlife trade in London last month. Conference director Andrew McCulloch explains how they did it

Watchdog says rapid timescale lacked “economic assessment of its implications”, ramping programme’s complexity and cost

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

Environment secretary set to stay on at department but report outlines scale of tasks ahead