Around 600 jobs are being cut within the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and its agencies, ...

Dr Clive Black calls for the disbandment of DEFRA, citing systemic incompetence, policy chaos, and a failure to support the ...

Defra has confirmed that GL43 will be issued soon, allowing the release of gamebirds near Special Areas of Conservation, but ...

Defra has allocated funding to support continued checks on illegal meat imports at Dover for 2025–26, but the port authority ...

Dan Corry, who led the Number 10 Policy Unit for Prime Minister Gordon Brown, released a report offering a series of recommendations to reform Defra.

As the UK prepares for the implementation of its Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) scheme in 2025, retailers face ...

Member of legislation scrutiny committee exposes UK farm ministry’s manipulation of data to give impression that the public supports gene-edited food. Report: Claire Robinson ...

Minette Batters will provide recommendations on farm profitability both to Defra secretary Steve Reed and farming minister ...

A joint consultation to reform environmental permitting regulations has been launched by Defra and the Welsh government.

Baroness Minette Batters, who was the president of the NFU for six years, has been appointed to lead a comprehensive review ...

Government proposes stricter heather burning restrictions, despite research showing controlled burns benefit carbon ...

A new chairman of the AHDB has still not been appointed by Defra ministers, despite the application window closing back in ...