DUP Agriculture spokesperson Carla Lockhart MP has written to newly appointed DEFRA Secretary Dame Angela Eagle, requesting a ...

A Defra spokesperson said: "Damaging fishing activities including bottom trawling are banned in over 100 of our Marine ...

Upper Bann MP Carla Lockhart has written to new Prime Minister Andy Burnham, urging him to place agriculture and national ...

Suffolk Coastal MP Jenny Riddell-Carpenter has been appointed to the role of parliamentary under-secretary to Defra.

Farmers have congratulated Suffolk Coastal MP Jenny Riddell-Carpenter for becoming Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Nature and ...

MEP Ciaran Mullooly said he is seeking assurances, both in Ireland and at EU level, that 'robust monitoring' of imported meat ...

To help understand the numbers and composition of the workforce, Defra have launched a new seasonal labour supply survey for ...

Circular Economy Minister Mary Creagh has announced that she is leaving Defra, but will continue serving as MP for Coventry ...

The Government has rejected MPs’ recommendations for how it should engage with the UK fishing industry. While the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) agrees with the EFRA ...

Jenny Riddell-Carpenter has become a junior minister for the first time after being appointed as parliamentary ...

Alistair Carmichael MP said fishermen already held the government in “poor regard” - and its latest response had done little ...

The policy had been proposed as part of the committee's 'Resetting the relationship with fish communities' report ...