Energy & Environment

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