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

The Farmer Collaboration Fund opens in 2026 with £30m to boost resilience, cut costs and support farmer wellbeing under the UK Farming Roadmap.

Andy Burnham has marked his arrival as PM with a new-look cabinet that sources said would spark a major debate over food ...

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

Office for Environmental Protection finds failures by department when it granted emergency authorisation in 2023 and 2024 ...

The UK's Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) has confirmed its £312 million Windows 10 laptop refresh was, in fact, followed by a Windows 11 upgrade after an earlier letter to ...

NFU President Tom Bradshaw today spoke with newly appointed Defra Secretary of State Dame Angela Eagle MP, on her first day ...

The UK's Department of Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs (Defra) has put out a Prior Information Notice for future hosting and storage services. In a notice published on August 23, Defra shared ...

Defra, or the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, part of the U.K.’s Environment Agency, has announced a policy update to the Digital Waste Tracking (DWT) reforms, including a new staged ...

Data from Defra has found that 89% of packaging producers in the UK are continuing to supply difficult-to-recyclable ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...