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Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs 2023-24

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Overview

This report summarises the key information and insights from our examinations of Defra and related bodies in the sector in England.

Energy and environment

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Investigation into how government is addressing antimicrobial resistance

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Public health

Resilience to animal diseases

Summer 2025

Work in progress

Resilience

Achieving environmental improvement and responding to climate change

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Insight Lessons learned

Climate change and net zero

Windfarm

The Farming and Countryside Programme

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Food and farming

Regulation in the water sector

Spring 2025

Work in progress

Business and industry

The UK border: Implementing an effective trade border

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Brexit

Implementing statutory biodiversity net gain

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Environmental sustainability

Resilience to flooding

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Energy and environment

Flood defenses attempting to prevent high river flooding a town

Waste management: data visualisation

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Waste and recycling

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