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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

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

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