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With nominations open for the Diversity and Inclusion Awards 2018, Tamsin Rutter speaks to winners from last year who helped challenge the menopause taboo, persuade 200 defence workers to identify as LGBT supporters, and ensure diverse input on counter-terrorism work
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
Foreign and Commonwealth Office to remove all avoidable single-use plastics from UK estate by end of year
Environment select committee calls on department to analyse impact of Brexit on agriculture and introduce fund for UK farmers
Data shows scale of challenge to remove single use plastics from across Whitehall
The UK government has taken a leading role in combatting Daesh’s plan to weaponise the international media. Dan Chugg, former head of the C-Daesh Coalition Comms Cell, explains how this has been achieved
Request is a first in providing statutory cover for Brexit outlay ahead of EU-exit legislation clearing parliament
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
NAO report warns of stiff competition in recruitment and department’s funding and workload challenges
When even reports on albatross observation are being suppressed, it’s clear that existing purdah regulations must change
Watchdog’s snapshot shows BEIS has biggest numeric burden, followed by Defra
RAC says plans to introduce clean air zones in cities could be hindered by lack of access to information
Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science granted planning permission for state-of-the art Lowestoft base
Union says Nuclear Decommissioning Authority cannot be held solely responsible for failings detailed by National Audit Office
Prof Ian Boyd cancels decision to step down and pledges to stay on for “at least another year”
Independent adviser also calls for consultation to be reopened because of impact of snap general election
Agency is the second government enforcement arm to trial cameras for protection this month
Publication of the strategy comes after court challenge to set out plans
Open-spaces campaign group says just-launched database falls short of Conservative Party’s 2015 manifesto pledge
National Audit Office says department did not look carefully enough at other ways to fund new nuclear plant