The last badger culling licence, which was granted in Cumbria in 2024, expires in 2028, but the Department for Environment, ...
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 ...
The UK's Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs (Defra) has extended its contract with Kyndryl for another year. In an agreement valued at £2.28 million ($2.83m), Kyndryl will help Defra ...
The former CEO of a national park said government funding does not reflect their importance to the nation's health. Tony ...
The United Kingdom’s (UK) Health and Safety Executive (HSE) announced on February 3, 2026, that the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has published a PFAS Plan, a ...
Lord Benyon has been reappointed as parliamentary under secretary of state at Defra. Mr Benyon is the only Defra minister to have his responsibilities confirmed so far and he will be ‘minister for ...
The Government is facing an angry backlash over the abrupt closure of its flagship nature-friendly farming payments scheme for new applicants this year. The Environment Department (Defra) announced ...
The UK Government will not require large food and drink businesses to report their food waste figures until the end of 2026 at the earliest, despite first promising a mandate in 2018. The Department ...
The labelling requirements for extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging will be introduced as part of a UK-wide statutory instrument later in 2023. The department for environment, food and ...
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 ...
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