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Slack Bloggers Anonymous

Yazan: Lucy | 10 January 2010 | 1 Comment
Categories: Goings On

My name is Lucy and I’m a slack blogger.
I have an excuse of course.  You may, if you have a good memory, recall that my last post mentioned the depletion of my team.  Well, I finally fixed that in mid-December when we found the money to get someone in to cover for the poor soul [...]

Parliamentary Questions

Yazan: Lucy | 26 October 2009 | 1 Comment
Categories: Goings On

It’s Defra’s turn for Oral Parliamentary Questions this week.  Written questions can, and do, arrive in Departments at any time, but oral questions come round on a rota.  The minister answers the questions in person in the House and MPs can then ask additional questions.  One of the more ‘entertaining’ aspects of this job is [...]

What’s going on?

Yazan: Lucy | 23 October 2009 | No Comments
Categories: Goings On

My best intentions of blogging more often have been undermined by sheer workload, especially now parliament are back.  Look out for all the Parliamentary Questions on waste hitting a Hansard near you! 
Anyway, things are happening:
Hilary Benn’s vision for a World Without Waste.  Read it, it’s good
More ’stakeholder engagement’ (otherwise known as ‘talking to [...]