Defra has confirmed that “interim measures” will be put in place to reduce disruption caused by the new Packaging Waste Digital Service.

The UK Government will reform one of the key subsidy schemes that encourages nature-friendly farming practices, after a lack of clarity over budgets and timeframes last year left thousands of farmers ...

The Government and regulators may have failed to comply with key laws on protecting water quality, an environmental watchdog ...

Two public consultations with the aim of phasing out enriched cages for laying hens, and ending castration and tail docking ...

The government's flagship SFI nature-friendly farming payments scheme will reopen in June – focusing more support on smaller farms, the ...

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 ...

The UK's Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs' (Defra) data center suffered a four-day outage last month. The power outage, however, is not thought to have caused any delays to data ...

A hedgelayer has welcomed the return of government grants to maintain hedges. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) said in September it had suspended funding for farmers to ...

English farmers have been given long-awaited clarity on the future of the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI), after Defra confirmed the scheme will ...

The UK’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is embarking on a significant initiative to overhaul its hosting and storage infrastructure. In a move aimed at ensuring the high ...

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is trying to move away from a hefty contract with IBM, but Brexit causing problems. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural ...

The largest IT organisation in UK government focused on Brexit is currently based at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), and it is also the department most affected by the ...