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IBM tops list of Defra supplier spending

...The list, released by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) under Freedom of Information on Monday, shows that it paid IBM UK... Read more

8 June, 2010 by Kable

Hill farmers to get £20m for rural broadband

...for rural broadband, and funding from the Rural Development Programme for England. Defra has not given details of the split, so it remains unclear how... Read more

11 March, 2011 by David Meyer

Government IT staff numbers drop nine percent

...same period.Similarly, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs's (DEFRA) IT staff, including contractors, fell by 36 percent between 2008-09 and... Read more

11 April, 2012 by Sade Laja

EU ministers set revamped WEEE targets

...electronic equipment, while at the same time reducing red tape for business. – Defra The EU Environment Council's proposed revision to the Waste Electrical and... Read more

16 March, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Payments agency reports doubled IT costs

...its parent department, the Department for the Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), as a whole. RPA figures for the previous two years are similar... Read more

22 July, 2010 by Kable

Three-quarters of government websites to go in cost cuts

...15 per visit), and research4development.info (87p per visit). The cheapest is defra.gov.uk, at 2p per visit. Thirteen of the websites surveyed cost... Read more

25 June, 2010 by David Meyer
Pocket Guide UK Sea Fishing Bait 1.9.3

Pocket Guide UK Sea Fishing Bait 1.9.3

...you've achieved with a particular bait or whatever you like. Notes: - Defra Commercial Minimum Landing Sizes (MLS) are quoted in the guide. - Local river... Read more

29 April, 2012
Pocket Guide UK Sea Fishing Plus 1.9.3

Pocket Guide UK Sea Fishing Plus 1.9.3

...Guides to UK Sea Fishing Bait and Rigs will follow shortly.Notes: - Defra Commercial Minimum Landing Sizes (MLS) are quoted in the guide. - Local river... Read more

25 April, 2012
Pocket Guide UK Sea Fishing Lite 1.8

Pocket Guide UK Sea Fishing Lite 1.8

...Guides to UK Sea Fishing Bait and Rigs will follow shortly.Notes:- Defra Commercial Minimum Landing Sizes (MLS) are quoted in the guide.- Local river... Read more

8 February, 2012
Pocket Guide UK Sea Fishing 1.8

Pocket Guide UK Sea Fishing 1.8

...Guides to UK Sea Fishing Bait and Rigs will follow shortly.Notes: - Defra Commercial Minimum Landing Sizes (MLS) are quoted in the guide. - Local river... Read more

1 February, 2012
CropMonitor v1 1.0.1

CropMonitor v1 1.0.1

...Food and Environment Research Agency (Fera) and Farming Online in partnership with Defra, the HGCA and Bayer Cropscience Read more

20 July, 2011

Home Office IT director takes G-Cloud reins

...role at the Home Office, McDonagh was deputy chief information officer for Defra and head of IT services for the Department of Health. Alongside news... Read more

16 April, 2012

Open source makes inroads into government IT

...showed that departments use open-source technologies in tandem with proprietary software. Defra has NodeXL to help Microsoft Excel do network discovery. The Department for... Read more

6 September, 2011 by Jack Clark

MoD reports rise in IT spending

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

28 July, 2010 by Kable
Flora of the British Isles 1.1

Flora of the British Isles 1.1

...D. Dines) and participating organizations (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA); Centre for Ecology & Hydrobiology (CEH); Botanical Society of the British Isles (BSBI... Read more

29 October, 2011

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