This year there were eleven award categories, aligned to reflect the Civil Service Renewal 2030 Strategy and 2024 Action Plan. Categories included: ‘Digital First’, which recognised digital and technological innovations used to improve systems and processes; ‘Excellence through Collaboration’, which recognised excellence through collaboration across multiple departments and sectors in the successful delivery of an initiative and ‘World Class Civil Service’ where teams have been a source of inspiration to other public administrations at home and abroad. In addition, a category recognising projects that involve action in relation to climate issues, with the aim of combatting climate change and its impacts, has been included.