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Government IT staff numbers drop nine percent

...81 to 50 in the same period.Similarly, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs's (DEFRA) IT staff, including contractors, fell by 36... Read more

11 April, 2012 by Sade Laja

EU ministers set revamped WEEE targets

...a new Europe-wide directive by next year," a Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) spokesperson told ZDNet UK. "Member states have agreed... Read more

16 March, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Hill farmers to get £20m for rural broadband

...money to set up community broadband networks, after the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs unveiled a new fund. British farmers are to receive... Read more

11 March, 2011 by David Meyer

Airwave tops communities department spending

...of the government's transparency drive. In June, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs released all its spending data, revealing IBM as its... Read more

13 August, 2010 by Kable

MoD reports rise in IT spending

...equipment rental and minor equipment," Robathan said. Separately, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has also revealed its IT expenditure, including that... Read more

28 July, 2010 by Kable

Payments agency reports doubled IT costs

...5 percent figure for its parent department, the Department for the Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), as a whole. RPA figures for the previous... Read more

22 July, 2010 by Kable

IBM tops list of Defra supplier spending

...Spending data released by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has revealed IBM to be the department's biggest... Read more

8 June, 2010 by Kable
Flora of the British Isles 1.1

Flora of the British Isles 1.1

...A. Pearman and T.D. Dines) and participating organizations (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA); Centre for Ecology & Hydrobiology (CEH); Botanical Society of... Read more

29 October, 2011

Superfast broadband: More rural funds detailed

Devon and Somerset, Norfolk and Wiltshire to get a share of £530m... Read more

27 May, 2011 by Natasha Lomas

Defra picks IBM for modernisation

...is its preferred partner for its modernisation programme The Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs made the announcement on 27 May, 2004. It will... Read more

28 May, 2004 by Kable
Department for Environment, <endeca_term>Food, and Rural Affairs</endeca_term> Uses Shared and Self Services to Enhance Efficiency

Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs Uses Shared and Self Services to Enhance Efficiency

The Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs (Defra)wanted to achieve the efficiency savings set by... Read more

1 July, 2008

Defra running 13 projects worth £289m

The Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has revealed a complex, late-running and expensive programme... Read more

17 November, 2008 by Kable

Defra deploys Vista, citing green credentials

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) will start to roll out Microsoft's Windows... Read more

16 May, 2008 by Tim Ferguson

Case study: Using the web to scale a paper mountain

...to manage the process. Like most government agencies, the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is a very paper-dependent organisation. It has... Read more

20 December, 2006 by Peter Judge

MPs: Government must subsidise rural broadband

...UK. In a report published on Tuesday, the Select Committee on Environment, Food and Rural Affairs condemned the fact that many rural areas can't... Read more

15 July, 2003 by Graeme Wearden

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