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MPs: Government Must Subsidise Rural Broadband
News In a report published on Tuesday, the Select Committee on Environment, Food and Rural Affairs condemned the fact that many rural areas can't get broadband today and appear to have little hope of getting it in the near future, at a time when...
[July 15, 2003, 11:48]
Government Continues To Stonewall Over ID Card Costs
News Central government departments who say they have yet to finalise their estimates of the cost of using ID cards or even what services they will be useful for include the Ministry of Defence; the Department for Transport; the Department for...
[February 20, 2006, 11:30]
Defra Deploys Vista, Citing Green Credentials
News The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) will start to roll out Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system from June. The deployment will cover 10,000 computers and is expected to be completed by the end of the year.
[May 16, 2008, 9:39]
Defra Picks IBM For Modernisation
News The Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs made the announcement on 27 May, 2004. Alun Michael, minister for rural affairs, said: "I am very pleased with the outcome of the competition and look forward to developing a close and...
[May 28, 2004, 11:30]
CA Helps The Pesticide Safety Directorate Lead The Way In EGovernment
White Papers The Pesticide Safety Directorate (PSD) is an executive agency of the United Kingdom government's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA). In order to make its operations more efficient and improve customer service, and still...
[August 14, 2003, 0:00]
E-envoy: Broadband Divide Will Wreck Rural Economy
News The select committee on Environment, Food and Rural Affairs examined the factors behind this broadband divide this summer, and concluded that direct subsidy from the government was needed to persuade telcos to build high-speed broadband networks...
[September 26, 2003, 12:05]
Sun Pushes Its Green IT Agenda
News According to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, IT in the UK currently accounts for 10 percent of the country's total power consumption (compared to between two and four percent globally), and this figure is likely to double...
[April 28, 2008, 13:36]
Government Database Security Breached
News Other government departments that have claimed there have been no security breaches of their databases over the past five years include the Cabinet Office; the Department for Culture, Media and Sport; the Department for the Environment, Food and...
[November 1, 2006, 10:07]
DWP Punishes 20 Staff For Data-protection Breaches
News Other departments that said they had not disciplined any staff over the last three years on these grounds, including the Foreign and Commonwealth Office; the Department for Culture, Media and Sport; the Department for Children, School and Families...
[June 4, 2008, 15:38]
Broadband's Inspectors Sport Varied Track Records
News Some industry commentators, though, believe that another parliamentary investigation into broadband isn't needed, as the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs committee has just published its own report into the problems of the rural broadband sector.
[September 16, 2003, 18:30]
Government Unveils Broadband Master Plan
News The RABs should be in place by October, and Timms hopes that the first contract will be awarded by April 2004.Earlier this month, the select committee on environment, food and rural affairs told the government it must revise its broadband strategy...
[July 31, 2003, 11:00]
Government Warning Over Hazardous IT Waste
News The UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is warning companies disposing of redundant IT equipment such as computer monitors that they may find themselves falling foul of new hazardous waste legislation.
[June 24, 2005, 15:30]
Minister's Wiki Experiment Suspended
News Miliband, secretary of state for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, had hoped that the creation of a wiki devoted to the idea of environmental contracts would generate useful debate. Some were more light-hearted, and included changing "Who are...
[September 6, 2006, 16:25]
New NPfIT Minister Announced
News He was previously minister for local environment, marine and animal welfare at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), having initially joined Defra in June 2003 as nature conservation and fisheries minister.
[July 23, 2007, 12:04]
A Very Wiki Situation
Leader The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), a name in need of a Wiki edit if ever there was one, responded by shutting down the edit function of the Wiki — slamming the door in the face of guests and gate crashers alike.
[September 7, 2006, 17:25]
Tech Recycling Laws Delayed Yet Again
News Representatives from the DTI, the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Environment agency will work together on a "formal consultation on draft regulations" for the Spring. The UK energy minister Malcolm Wicks issued a...
[December 15, 2005, 14:10]
Users To Force Green IT Agenda
News Peter Ainsworth MP, shadow secretary of state for environment, food and rural affairs, also welcomed the project. Its scope will be defined over the next three to four weeks and it is expected to be launched in the House of Commons at the end of...
[July 23, 2007, 12:34]
Government Hack Attacks Dropping
News The Department of Trade and Industry also said it had not found any evidence of attacks, as did the Home Office, the Foreign Office and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has provided the most...
[July 12, 2005, 9:15]
Defra Equips Staff With 'green' Laptops
News The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is moving 10,000 civil servants to energy-saving laptops, as part of its 'Renew IT' programme. The move to laptops started in June and is planned for completion by the end of December.
[July 21, 2008, 9:23]
Defra To Scrap Its Desktops And Handhelds
News The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) hopes to cut power bills and CO2 emissions by introducing one laptop per worker. A Whitehall department wants to scrap desktop and handheld computers in favour of lone laptops.
[July 17, 2008, 10:10]
