Energy & Environment

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

NAO report warns of stiff competition in recruitment and department’s funding and workload challenges

Auditor review of Green Investment Bank privatisation concludes efforts to ensure firm’s liabilities were off the public sector balance sheet could have reduced sale price

Department leads on over one-fifth of the cross-Whitehall projects that need to be implemented for EU exit, according to auditors

Flagship government document identifies four "grand challenges" that UK must address to take advantage of global economic trends

Report by MPs concluded that departments did not show ministers risks of different possible funding schemes for Hinckley Point C nuclear scheme

Post-Brexit Britain “could lose its research edge” unless departments step up, say public spending watchdogs

RAC says plans to introduce clean air zones in cities could be hindered by lack of access to information

Sinn Féin and DUP given two weeks to agree new power-sharing deal or face Westminster intervention on budget