Jayne Kirkham, MP for Truro and Falmouth, has been announced as the new PPS for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).

New Defra minister Jim Fitzpatrick will have big shoes to fill after the resignation of the popular Jane Kennedy last week. Kennedy, who had only been in the role since October and resigned from ...

Government ministers have been forced to intervene in a parking row between local residents in Guildford and IBM contractors working for the Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs ...

Defra’s food minister warned angry Norfolk farmers that the government’s budget “is not going to change” after facing questions about an "unjust" family farm tax. Daniel Zeichner gave the opening ...

The theme for this year's Oxford Farming Conference was 'Bold Agriculture', and Defra minister Liz Truss, giving the conference keynote speech, called for a bold re-shaping of Defra to step up to the ...

Defra ministers have been accused of “drift” in farming policy and a lack of vision for British agriculture, as livestock numbers continue to fall and direct farm payments are phased out. At a tense ...

With an £11m overspend and slippage of up to two years on its large tech projects Defra is the latest government department with a poor IT track record. A string of failed IT projects across ...