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Departmental Overview: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 2019-20

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Overview Departmental overview

A summary of Defra's spending in 2019-20, its major areas of activity and performance, and the challenges it is likely to face in the coming year, based on the insights from our financial audit and value for money work.

Energy and environment

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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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Report Value for money

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

The government’s resources and waste reforms for England

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Waste and recycling

Woman documenting waste at a waste management and recycling centre

Waste management: data visualisation

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Report Interactive visualisation

Waste and recycling

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