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HMRC, Defra and cross-departmental borders group urged to update MPs on contingency-planning work

Department for Transport names Allan Cook as replacement for high-speed rail role

Three government departments collaborated to organise a major international conference on illegal wildlife trade in London last month. Conference director Andrew McCulloch explains how they did it

Environment secretary set to stay on at department but report outlines scale of tasks ahead

Scottish Government perm sec makes statement following employment tribunal case

Concerns over statutory work as hundreds of civil servants are redeployed

Ensuring staff are equipped to deak with huge workload is also an 'anxiety', says Clare Moriarty 

The 2017 Commercial Award went to a team who supported "22 feisty local authorities" to reduce waste through innovative technology and collaborative working. Naomi Larsson finds out more

Initial planning was “optimistic”, resulting in missed milestones, report finds

Straw poll of Prospect members finds more than three-quarters are dissatisfied with government’s handling of negotiations 

Sources warn of danger that doubling charge to 10p ‘looks like profiteering'

Natural Resources Wales has had its accounts qualified three times over “unlawful” contracts with a sawmill

NICS challenge over High Court ruling to overturn incinerator planning decision rejected by Court of Appeal

Proposals include annual statement setting out the current state of fish stocks "based on the latest scientific evidence"

MPs demand answers after reports the department favours weaker powers than those currently exercised by the European Commission

Department pledges to take more notice of green building certification and increase use of low-emission vehicles

Dame Judith Hackitt also wants building regulations reviews at least every five years, and for the results to be “user-friendly”

At the first Civil Service World leadership lecture, Defra permanent secretary Clare Moriarty shared the four principles that inform her leadership style. Suzannah Brecknell reports

MPs urge Defra to admit it has an unmanageable workload and accuse DIT of lacking the capacity to do new trade deals

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

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

Foreign Affairs Committee argues FCO failed to do sufficient crisis planning despite Caribbean’s known vulnerability to hurricanes