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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)

What is the government committed to?

This is what the government has committed to in the Comprehensive Spending Review 2007
for the period 2008-11:

2007 PBR CSR: Public service agreements
The new Public Service Agreements (PSAs), announced in CSR07, are the Government's top 30 priorities for 2008-11. PSAs, PSA Delivery Agreements and, also, the Service Transformation Agreement.

2007 Departmental Strategic Objectives (Defra website)
Departmental Strategic Objectives (DSOs) are a department's top-level organisational objectives.

This is what the government committed to in SR04 for the period 2005-2008:

SR04 Public Service Agreement (PDF file 35KB)

Detail on progress:

As reported in the Spring Departmental Report:

Departmental Report (Defra website)
The Departmental Report provides detail on what the department does and how it is performing against its commitments (including the efficiency programme). Departments publish these reports each spring.

As reported in the Autumn Performance Report:

Autumn Performance Report (Defra website)
Autumn Performance Reports provide an update of performance later in the year and complement Departmental Reports.

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