Energy & Environment

Behavioural Insights Team annual report details its work with departments, including ‘TripAdvisor-style’ feedback tool to help CCS boost spend with SMEs

Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science granted planning permission for state-of-the art Lowestoft base

The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy was created in July 2016 as part of changes announced when Theresa May became prime minister. Civil Service World met Angie Ridgwell and Jaee Samant, the civil servants responsible for the transition programme from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and the Department for Energy and Climate Change, to reflect on the process. By Richard Johnstone

Union says Nuclear Decommissioning Authority cannot be held solely responsible for failings detailed by National Audit Office

Stephen Lovegrove told MPs that nuclear power plant deal with EDF would have collapsed had his department tried to renegotiate terms

Prof Ian Boyd cancels decision to step down and pledges to stay on for “at least another year”

Offer to ‘transform pay system’ of weather forecaster follows legal action from female employees earning £7,000 less than male colleagues

DExEU, Cabinet Office, and Defra under fire for refusal to answer information requests

The recently merged department lacks strategic coherence and authentic leaders – civil servants won't take it any more

Agency is the second government enforcement arm to trial cameras for protection this month

New owner Macquarie has changed GIB’s name to overcome regulatory barriers to overseas investments

Departmental chiefs open up about areas of concern across government, including the need to focus on delivery and the impact of London house prices on the civil service

Publication of the strategy comes after court challenge to set out plans

Paul Caldwell confirmed as permanent head of troubled Defra distribution arm

Open-spaces campaign group says just-launched database falls short of Conservative Party’s 2015 manifesto pledge

Institute for Government says High Speed 1 rail link and Thames Tideway tunnel are among projects where government may have made the wrong investment decision

National Audit Office says department did not look carefully enough at other ways to fund new nuclear plant

Martin Stanley recalls his own shift into the world of watchdogs and introduces his new ‘Understanding Regulation’ website

Environmental campaigners seek High Court review of clean air proposals and consultation

Government is considering a scrappage scheme for more polluting cars, draft strategy reveals

Move will free the institution from public sector ownership, says minister

Untangling the UK’s complicated relationship with European environmental policies and subsidies could be the hardest part of leaving the EU. Mark Rowe reports

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