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Outgoing Food Standards Agency chief executive Catherine Brown believed she had a job with a low media profile until the horse meat scandal raced over the horizon. She tells Mark Smulian about the changes she has made in the department over the last five years and her plans for the future
Department also pledges to develop new agriculture and land use plans ahead of Brexit
Compensation to firms hits nearly £100m due to botched deal, says business secretary Greg Clark
New department says £125k role will focus on developing its “underpinning foundations”, building values and forming its culture
Longstanding top scientist at the environment department heading for the exit, in move Defra says comes at "natural end" of his fixed term
After the merger of DECC and BIS, the new Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy's permanent secretary Alex Chisholm tells CSW that his department's low ranking for "organisational objectives and purpose" will be addressed in the next Civil Service People Survey
Former Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs perm sec Bronwyn Hill tells CSW that Brexit offers the chance to rethink UK's rural subsidy system
Report on full impact of delays with Common Agricultural Policy funds distribution says UK taxpayers will be left with £642m in penalties
Watchdog cites failure to get Treasury agreement for scheme's lifetime funding as contributing factor to the cancellation of a £100m competition
With the end of 2016 fast approaching, we asked the UK's top officials to look back at the year, outline their goals for 2017 – and shed some light on their festive favourites. Nigel Clifford, chief executive of Ordnance Survey takes part in our annual perm secs round-up...
With the end of 2016 fast approaching, we asked the UK's top officials to look back at the year, outline their goals for 2017 – and shed some light on their festive favourites. Permanent secretary, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
With the end of 2016 fast approaching, we asked the UK's top civil servants to look back at the year, outline their goals for 2017 – and shed some light on their festive favourites.Clare Moriarty, permanent secretary at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs takes part in our annual perm secs round-up
Climate sceptics were jubilant when Theresa May announced the end of a dedicated climate change department. But, as Professor Sam Fankhauser of the Grantham Research Institute argues, bringing together the teams working to cut carbon with those drawing up industrial policy could be a smart move
Martin Donnelly and Alex Chisholm leading the newly-created department as joint permanent secretaries
New report praises cross-government progress since 2010 but questions the value of Single Departmental Plans
The new prime minister Theresa May has triggered a major overhaul of Whitehall. CSW has full the details on what the merger of the energy and business departments will mean for staff and policy
The environment department’s top official calls on staff to confide in each other as a way of boosting morale in one of the government’s unhappiest departments
The former Energy and Climate Change chief scientist, who died earlier this year, taught his department how to do policymaking without the hot air – by making the process data-led, iterative and open
Microsoft looks at the digital infrastructure that allows cities to prosper
Energy secretary Amber Rudd leads tributes as former chief scientific advisor loses battle with stomach cancer
National Audit Office (NAO) report finds that each loan given out under the Department of Energy and Climate Change's Green Deal cost government £17,000, and flags poor use of evidence and testing when the scheme was designed
Lovegrove to leave DECC after three years at the top, taking over from Jon Thompson at the MoD "shortly"
Public appointments watchdog Acoba approves former Defra perm sec's appointment to board of the Office for Nuclear Regulation
Regulator Ofgem’s energy markets inquiry lead Rachel Fletcher appointed for seven-year term