What's new on this site
2008
4 March 2008
- No room for let up in the battle against litter says Minister
- Defra launches National Standing Committee for farm animal genetic resources
29 February 2008
- Avian influenza update: control area in Dorset
- Extension of Bluetongue protection zone
- H5N1 in Canada Goose – 11th case in wild bird
- Compensation for Bovine TB, BSE, Brucellosis and Enzootic Bovine Leukosis
- Consultation on draft regulations and guidance implementing the Environmental Liability Directive 2004/35/EC with regard to the prevention and remedying of environmental damage
- Consultation on the arrangements for the Single Payment Scheme and associated information bulletin
28 February 2008
- Family Food 2006 published
- Speech by Phil Woolas MP at the Eco Build Conference, London
- Speech by Joan Ruddock MP to Three Regions Climate Change Group Project Launch, London
- Review of competition and innovation in water
- UK Delays Issuing EU Carbon Allowances
- Results of Government Pathfinder programme aimed at improving rural services - published and associated news release
- Written Ministerial Statement by Hilary Benn - Environment Council 3 March 2008
27 February 2008
- Speech by Phil Woolas MP on the future of carbon trading, London
- Consultation on the transposition of Council Directive 2006/117/Euratom
26 February 2008
- Speech by Phil Woolas MP to the United Nations Environment Programme in Monaco
- Animal Health launches news alert service
- National Livestock Markets Roadshow 2008
- Extra protection for the water vole
25 February 2008
- Foot and Mouth Disease: SAPO licence restored to Merial Animal Health
- Climate change champions fulfil fact finding expedition in the Netherlands
- Consultation: River Basin Planning Guidance to the Environment Agency and associated news release
22 February 2008
- Bluetongue Update: Surveillance zone extended to Cornwall/Defra announces date for end of vector-free period
- Foot and Mouth Disease: World Animal Health Organisation (OIE) grants UK FMD free status
- Founding members of committee on climate change appointed
21 February 2008
- Farming Link - February 2008 edition published online
- Low carbon technology - the Environmental Transformation Fund has been increased to £400m over the next three years, associated news release and 2008/09 Budget settlement announced
20 February 2008
19 February 2008
- Information Bulletin: Avian Influenza update: control and monitoring area merge
- Speech by Rt Hon Hilary Benn MP to the National Farmers' Union Centenary Conference, London - 18 February 2008
- Written Ministerial Statement - update on Bluetongue Disease, Avian Influenza, and Foot and Mouth Disease
- Government supports local communities to manage wild boar
- Carbon offsetting - draft Code of Best Practice, associated news release and Written Ministerial Statement
18 February 2008
- Summary of the Government’s proposals for strengthening the Climate Change Bill together with the 2050 target review terms of reference and associated news release
15 February 2008
- Information Bulletin: Confirmation of oyster parasite in north Kent
- Chief Scientific Advisor at Defra receives international science award
13 February 2008
- Information Bulletin: Extension of bluetongue restricted zones
- Contingency planning in Defra - emergency planning, business continuity - information added
- Speech by Jonathan Shaw MP at the SE National Housing Federation annual conference
12 February 2008
- Environmental Permitting guidance published.
11 February 2008
8 February 2008
- Extension of Bluetongue restricted zones
- Municipal waste management statistics: Provisional Quarter 1 2007/08
7 February 2008
- Revised rates of Hill Farm Allowance for 2008
- Impact Assessment of a Commission proposal for a package of measures relating to the dairy sector (Mini Dairy Package)
- Consultation: improving surface water drainage
- Consultation: draft statutory social and environmental guidance to Ofwat
- Consultation: options for controls on phosphates in domestic laundry cleaning products in England
- New water strategy for England, Future Water and associated Written Ministerial Statement and news release
- Information bulletin: sickness absence statistics, Defra
5 February 2008
4 February 2008
- Written Ministerial Statement: Benn - budget allocations and outcome targets for flood and coastal erosion risk management in England and associated news release
- Consultation introducing a full cost recovery charging regime for CITES licences and associated news release
1 February 2008
- Extension of Bluetongue Restriction Zones
- Legislation introduced for Salmonella National Control Programme
- Avian influenza update: two further swans positive for H5N1
- Compensation for Bovine TB, BSE, Brucellosis and Enzootic Bovine Leukosis
31 January 2008
- UK farm incomes rise by 8.7 per cent
- UK emissions figures down, but “much more must be done”: Benn
- Regional sustainable development indicators for the English regions
- UK climate change sustainable development indicator: 2006 greenhouse gas emissions, final figures
30 January 2008
- Avian Influenza Update: Seventh Swan Positive for H5N1
- Consultation: future priorities for and delivery of the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund - April 2008 to March 2011
- Dorset Avian influenza epidemiology report published
- Defra announce first results from monitoring the impact of 0 per cent set aside rate
28 January 2008
- Adair Turner appointed to head climate committee
- Single Payment Scheme ’10-month rule’ replaced
- Speech by Joan Ruddock MP to the Waste Management Finance Forum, London
- How Women's Land Army veterans can get the recognition they deserve - Benn - announcement of application process
26 January 2008
24 January 2008
23 January 2008
22 January 2008
- Written Ministerial Statement by Hilary Benn: winter flood risk update
- UK Chemicals Stakeholder Forum (UKCSF) announces its new terms of reference
- Written Ministerial Statement by Hilary Benn on the outcome of the December 2007 Agriculture and Fisheries Council
21 January 2008
20 January 2008
18 January 2008
17January 2008
- Written Ministerial Statement by Hilary Benn on the winter flood risk
- Written Ministerial Statement by Hilary Benn: update on Avian influenza case in Dorset
16 January 2008
- UK manufacturers join consumer electronics efficiency initiative
- Avian influenza update: further swan positive for H5N1
- Written Ministerial Statement by Hilary Benn: outcome of the Environment Council, 20 December 2007
15 January 2008
- Written Ministerial Statement by Hilary Benn on the Avian influenza case in Dorset
- Bovine TB Science Advisory Body established
14 January 2008
- Phytophthora kernoviae found on Vaccinium
- Encouraging greener living – Defra publishes public attitudes research
- Consultation on proposed fee changes for National listing and Plant Breeders’ rights services
11 January 2008
- Waste exports: better protection for developing countries
- New environmental permitting manual published for local authority regulation
10 January 2008
- Avian Influenza H5N1 confirmed in wild birds in Dorset
- Written Ministerial Statement by Hilary Benn on Managing Radioactive Waste Safely and associated news release
9 January 2008
- Advice to pregnant women during the lambing season
- Consultation on a proposal for two per cent increase to milk quotas from 2008
7 January 2008
4 January 2008
3 January 2008
2007
31 December 2007
- Two consultations launched on Scotch Whisky Regulations 2008 and Spirit Drinks Regulations 2008, with associated news release.
28 December 2007
27 December 2007
21 December 2007
- UK urges Japan to stop killing whales
- Bluetongue update: vector-free period confirmed and movement restrictions relaxed
- Consultation on Proposed UK auction design for use in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme Phase II and associated news release
20 December 2007
- Benn welcomes aviation’s inclusion in EU emissions trading scheme
- Practical steps to water affordability can be a lesson for all says Minister
- Single Payment Scheme aspects of reform of the EU fruit and vegetable regime is agreed
- Bluetongue detected in imported animals
- Plans to extend sea life protection
- Sales of veterinary antimicrobials and review of antimicrobial resistance policy across Defra
19 December 2007
- Wine reforms good news for UK consumers and producers
- Consultation on Implementation of EU Legislation in England and Wales: Aquatic Animal Health Directive
- Order placed for Bluetongue vaccine
- Batteries included – in new recycling plan
- Government reviews and updates its research agenda to characterise potential risks of nanomaterials
- Consultation on the recommendations of the Climate Change simplification project, announcement of the new Shadow Price of Carbon and associated news release
- Avian Influenza - remaining restrictions lifted
- National fruit collection to remain at Brogdale
- Shaw welcomes “fair” deal for UK in EU fisheries talks
- Better regulation for disposal of inert waste
18 December 2007
- Written Ministerial Statement by Jonathan Shaw - Agriculture and Fisheries Council 17-19 December
- Written Ministerial Statement by Jonathan Shaw - Agriculture and Fisheries Council 26-27 November
- Written Ministerial Statement by Hilary Benn on the Single Farm Payment Scheme
- Putting noise on the map – Defra publishes airport noise maps
17 December 2007
- Publication of the details of Defra’s new performance framework for the period of the Comprehensive Spending Review 2007
- Electronic identification of sheep and goats
- Written Ministerial Statement by Hilary Benn on publication of the interim report on summer 2007 floods, and associated news release
15 December 2007
14 December 2007
13 December 2007
- Speech to the Thirteenth Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
- School fruit and vegetable scheme: summer term of pesticide residues testing
- Pesticide Residues Committee – second quarter report 2007
- Consultation on Article 5 of the Energy End Use Efficiency and Energy Services Directive 2006/32/EC; associated news release, Woolas calls for public sector to lead in energy efficiency
- Callaghan review of the regulatory framework for animal pathogens published, associated news release and Written Ministerial Statement
- Government blueprint to deliver better protection for people on the coast
12 December 2007
11 December 2007
- UK Announces New Study on Climate Change Adaptation at Bali
- New Approach to Natural Environment Policy
- Speech by Joan Ruddock MP to the Launch of the Climate Change Taskforce Report
- Views sought on sharing responsibility and costs for animal health and welfare
- UK pledges $30 million to tackle deforestation
- Consultation: responsibility and cost sharing for animal Health and welfare: next steps – your views matter
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10 December 2007
- £60 million for new body to tackle London’s waste
- Defra publishes contingency plan for exotic animal diseases
7 December 2007
6 December 2007
- Speech by Joan Ruddock MP to the Environment Agency's East End Regeneration Reception, London
- £9.6 million extra for National Parks
- £3.9 billion boost for English countryside
- Local waste projects go forward to next PFI round
- Consultation on a Recreational Sea Angling Strategy for England and associated news release
- Cash boost for people in fuel poverty – Phil Woolas
- Update on avian Influenza outbreak in Suffolk
- Formal recognition for wartime women who worked on the land
4 December 2007
3 December 2007
30 November 2007
29 November 2007
- Efficiency trials and targets at heart of new action plan to cut water consumption
- First Suffolk avian influenza epidemiology report published
28 November 2007
27 November 2007
- Jeff Rooker welcomes independent review of greyhound racing industry
- £97 million boost for UK fishing and seafood industries
23 November 2007
- Speech by Joan Ruddock MP to the 'Delivering Low Carbon Cities' at the Birmingham NEC
- Avian Influenza update: bird gatherings permitted outside restricted zone
- Parents and the retired more likely to adopt pro-environmental behaviours
- Joan Ruddock, Minister for Sustainable Consumption and Production, welcomes collaboration with major retailers
22 November 2007
- Jeff Rooker opens the UK's first bioethanol plant in Norfolk
- Written Ministerial Statement by Hilary Benn on Specified Animal Pathogens Order licence conditions at Merial Animal Health
- Latest Local Authority waste statistics published
21 November 2007
- Avian influenza update: precautionary culling on a fifth premises
- Deputy Chief Veterinary Officer confirmed
20 November 2007
- Hilary Benn responds to report on welfare of wild circus animals
- Local Councils crucial to fighting climate change
- UK-China clean coal initiative launched
- Statistical release: 2005 experimental Carbon Doxide emission statistics at Local Authority and Government Office Region level
19 November 2007
- Speech by Rt Hon Hilary Benn MP at the Farming for the Future Conference, London
- Avian influenza update: H5N1 confirmed at second premises
- Statement on a Post-2012 framework to tackle climate change
- Speech by Phil Woolas published: "Towards a green industrial revolution" - made to the Midwestern Governors Association's Energy Security and Climate Stewardship Summit, Milwaukee, WI, USA
- Consultation on the future of the Pesticides Safety Directorate (PSD)
- Benn launches plan for one stop shop for greener homes
18 November 2007
17 November 2007
16 November 2007
- Consultation: towards a Defra Third Sector Strategy – emerging issues and options and associated news release
15 November 2007
- H5N1 Avian Influenza update
- 2007 bathing season isn’t a washout - bathing water
- World first Climate Change Bill published
- New powers to pilot waste incentive schemes
14 November 2007
13 November 2007
- Oral Ministerial Statement by Hilary Benn on Avian Influenza
- H5N1 Avian Influenza Confirmed in Poultry
- Written Ministerial Statement by Hilary Benn on the tidal surge, East Coast of England
- Written Ministerial Statement by Hilary Benn - update on Foot and Mouth Disease and Bluetongue Disease outbreaks
- Consultation on the draft Mutilations (Permitted Procedures) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2008 and associated new release
- Speech by Joan Ruddock MP at the Local Government Association Environmental Enforcement Conference, London - 7 November 2007
12 November 2007
- Avian Influenza Outbreak: additional restrictions
- Avian Influenza H5 confirmed in Suffolk
- Consultation on the implementation of the revised Bathing Water Directive and associated news release
9 November 2007
- Speech by Joan Ruddock MP to the ‘Sustainable cities, delivering success’ Core Cities Summit, Nottingham - 8 November 2007
- Chief vet leaves with plaudits after four years service
- Statistical release:The Environment in your Pocket 2007 412/07
- Speech by Phil Woolas MP to the Timber Trade Journal Wood Futures Conference, London - 8 November 2007
- Defra publishes its second Sustainable Development Action Plan which sets out our actions until March 2009
8 November 2007
- Risk of serious coastal flooding in Eastern England
- Speech by Phil Woolas MP to the EIC’s Annual Conference, London
- Consultation: the review of Schedule 9 to the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 and a ban on the sale of certain non-native species and associated news release
- Offsetting projects to create jobs and cut emissions
- Written Ministerial Statement by Phil Woolas: outcome of the UN Convention on Climate Change Pre-COP meeting in Bogor, Indonesia, 23-25 October 2007
- Written Ministerial Statement by Phil Woolas: Government Decontamination Service Business Plan
- Written Ministerial Statement by Hilary Benn on the outcome of the Agriculture and Fisheries Council 22-23 October 2007
- Written Ministerial Statement by Jonathan Shaw - Public Sector Food Procurement Initiative: report giving the proportion of UK produce supplied to Government Departments, NHS and HM Prison Service
- Written Ministerial Statement by Phil Woolas - Consultation on the coexistence of GM and non-GM crops - summary of responses and associated news release
7 November 2007
6 November 2007
- SAPO Licence restored to Merial Animal Health
- Statistical release: Municipal waste management statistics 2006/07
5 November 2007
2 November 2007
- New EU amendment to Bluetongue controls
- Bonfire night smog warning
- Foot and Mouth Disease surveillance zone to lift
- 2007 Survey of Attitudes and Behaviour in relation to the Environment
- Public attitudes and behaviours positive on the environment
1 November 2007
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