Guidance: Funding for farmers

You can apply for money to improve the environment while producing high quality food and other products if you’re a farmer, land manager, forester or horticulturist.




Press release: £11.6m boost for local authorities to tackle air pollution

Air Quality Grants awarded across England to fund local projects for cleaner air.




Changes to Environment Agency’s abstraction charges to safeguard water supplies for people and wildlife

Businesses, including water companies and farmers must hold a licence to abstract more than 20 cubic metres of water a day from a river, stream, canal or groundwater, and pay charges for this from 1 April 2022.




FOI release: Sick leave in Defra – FOI2022/00900

Sick leave in Defra for the financial years 2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22 (up to December 2021).




Natural England and Environment Agency launch joint legal action in response to River Lugg damage

Banks of the River Lugg were damaged in December 2020 causing suspected significant and long-term ecological harm.