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8 unusual facts about Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs


Applied Satellite Technology

AST have undertaken integrated projects such as satellite tracking services to 800+ UK fishing vessels under contract to DEFRA (UK Government) and also work with the RNLI on the MOB Guardian project.

Barrow Hill Engine Shed

After lobbying of the local council, the building was Grade 2 listed by the Department of the Environment in February 1991.

Bronwyn Hill

Bronwyn Hill CBE (born 1960) is a British civil servant, who currently serves as the Permanent Secretary of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Kirkley

The Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (CEFAS), a large fisheries research centre, which is a part of Defra, is located in the Kirkley area.

Kissing gate

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) in England has suggested in this context that kissing gates and stiles should be in time replaced or supplemented by a type that would allow access to a wider range of users.

Lion Salt Works

In 2000, a survey showed that the land around the works was stable and during the following years money was raised from DEFRA, English Heritage, Cheshire Rural Recovery and the Northwest Development Agency to enable surveys to be completed and a conservation plan to be written.

Reims-Cessna F406 Caravan II

:Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - Two F406s operated by DirectFlight for monitoring fishing activity.


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On 7 October 2010, Richard Benyon, the Minister for the Natural Environment and Fisheries launched its green marketplace.

Clay Pigeon Shooting Association

Founded in 1928, it is recognised by Sports England, the Department of the Environment, the Home Office, the Police etc. and it is a constituent member of the International Clay Pigeon Shooting Council of Great Britain and Ireland and is represented on The World Forum on the Future of Sport Shooting Activities through the British Shooting Sports Council.

David Inshaw

Inshaw's paintings are held in many private and public collections, including the Arts Council of Great Britain, Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery, the British Council, the Department of the Environment, the Royal West of England Academy, Tate Britain and the Wiltshire Heritage Museum.

Environment Agency

The Environment Agency (EA) was established in 1996 covering England and Wales but in 2013 became an England-only non-departmental public body of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, a Ministry headed by Owen Paterson.

Environmentally Sensitive Area

Originally it was administered by Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, then the Rural Development Service for the United Kingdom Governments Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, and currently Natural England following successive re-organisation of the departments.

Oxford Farming Conference

Speakers included the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Hilary Benn, and the chief scientist of the UK government's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), Professor Robert Watson.

Richard A. E. North

North and Booker wrote a special edition for Private Eye on the 2001 United Kingdom foot-and-mouth outbreak, describing the subsequent merger of the Agriculture (MAFF) and Environment ministries to form the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) as the "most cynical makeover since Windscale changed its name to Sellafield".

Tina Stowell, Baroness Stowell of Beeston

On 18 September 2011, Lady Stowell was appointed a Baroness-in-Waiting to HM The Queen, following the promotion of the former Lord-in-Waiting Lord Taylor of Holbeach to be a junior Minister at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.


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