Energy & Environment

MPs criticise department for not knowing where to spend £7bn pump-priming cashpot

New mechanisms required to enable all four governments to jointly agree post-Brexit policy, according to think tank

Departmental advisor to secretary of state Michael Gove proposes move to tackle grey squirrel population

David Sterling tells inquiry his workforce cannot be expected to deliver beyond their resources and skills sets as power vacuum continues

Unprecedented report makes demands of six departments and calls for better oversight to ‘prevent policy from working at cross-purposes’

Report highlights warnings of a ‘crisis-driven’ approach of local authorities increasingly focus on providing core statutory social services

Weather service’s deputy Nick Jobling to take over until a permanent chief executive is appointed

MPs slam Nuclear Decommissioning Authority for needlessly complex contract but add that business department and Treasury cannot escape blame

Foreign and Commonwealth Office to remove all avoidable single-use plastics from UK estate by end of year

Cap plan comes after select committee called for government action on “dysfunctional” energy market

Environment select committee calls on department to analyse impact of Brexit on agriculture and introduce fund for UK farmers

Department consults on revamp of its Public Attitudes Tracker to cover workers’ rights and corporate transparency

Move follows Public Accounts Committee observation that up-front borrowing could have reduced the cost to consumers of the £20bn Hinkley Point C project

Programme manager bags runner up slot in literary springboard the Costa Short Story Award

Data shows scale of challenge to remove single use plastics from across Whitehall

BEIS programme manager makes literary springboard’s ‘final three’ 

Request is a first in providing statutory cover for Brexit outlay ahead of EU-exit legislation clearing parliament

Former Network Rail chief exec and Olympics infrastructure tsar will succeed Andrew Adonis on a permanent basis

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs strategy includes Whitehall ban on “single use” plastic forks, straws and bottles

Environment secretary praises ‘brilliant’ Defra staff but rubbishes bureaucracy and ‘haphazard’ inspection regimes

Philip Rutnam and predecessor Mark Sedwill join HMRC’s Edward Troup in list of public servants recognised by the Queen

With the end of 2017 fast approaching, we asked the UK's top civil servants to look back at the year, outline their goals for 2018 – and tell us what they cannot do Christmas without

Peers question MPs' decision to further redact Brexit documents and call on David Davis to publish entire papers

With the end of 2017 fast approaching, we asked the UK's top civil servants to look back at the year, outline their goals for 2018 – and tell us what they cannot do Christmas without