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

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

Defra Secretary Dame Angela Eagle has taken charge of the department following Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s first Cabinet ...

Senior representatives from the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) have visited Brigstock in ...

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

The move is designed to speed up the delivery of new housing and key infrastructure projects in England by streamlining the process for obtaining permits from the Environment Agency (EA). Under the ...

The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) has granted the Environment Agency (EA) new powers to determine which construction activities could be exempted from requiring an ...

The National Audit Office has raised concerns over the UK government’s Nature for Climate Fund Programme, warning that despite some progress, Defra has fallen short of its tree planting and peatland ...

The UK’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has released it’s sustainable IT strategy, outlining how it will work in partnership with government, industry and other actors to ...