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News The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) hopes to cut power bills and CO2 emissions by introducing one laptop per worker. Defra permanent secretary Helen Ghosh unveiled the plan as part of its Renew IT Programme to the... [16 Jul 2008]
'Greedy' appliances to power one million homes
News Efficiency improvements to the greediest home appliances - including power supplies for laptops, mobile phones and printers - can save enough energy to power 1.5 million homes, according to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs... [14 Jul 2008]
Gov't department readies for Vista rollout
News The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) will start to roll out Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system from June. Although it's unclear if Defra is the first central government department to commit to a Vista deployment... [15 May 2008]
Defra IT - blowing budgets and showing up late
News Major IT projects at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) are millions over budget and years late, it has been revealed. With an £11m overspend and slippage of up to two years on its large tech projects Defra is the latest... [07 Feb 2008]
Sheep ID tags to combat disease outbreaks
News Although the regulations apply to sheep and goats, the UK has fewer than 160,000 goats - meaning it will be able to utilise a derogation on complying with part of the regulation, according to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs... [19 Dec 2007]
Photos: Floating computers keep an eye on the oceans
Photo The UK part of the programme is jointly funded by Defra, the MoD and the Natural Environment Research Council. The Met Office is taking part in a global programme to monitor the world's oceans to improve understanding of how they influence climate... [21 Nov 2007]
Chip and bin to combat climate change?
News But a spokeswoman for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) told silicon.com there had been no plan for an announcement at that time. The specifics of waste minimisation schemes would be up to local authorities, said the... [31 Oct 2007]
A litany of disasters has made shared services easy to swallow
Comment In just the last few months, government shared services operations have been launched at Defra, the DWP and the Prison Service. Addleshaw Goddard's Paul Bentham explains how the new regime will work. Since the launch of Sir David Varney's report on... [20 Jun 2007]
Gov blasted over budget-bloating IT projects
News According to the Liberals, Defra is the department with the least control over its budgets, with IT projects 46.3 per cent over budget - an overspend of £62.4m. The Liberal Democrats have blasted the government for overspending on IT projects by... [14 May 2007]
Whitehall wiki experiment goes awry
News David Miliband, secretary of state for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), had hoped the creation of a wiki devoted to the idea of environmental contracts would generate useful debate. [07 Sep 2006]
Leader: Missing laptops and lazy risk management
Leader Two departments, Defra and the Department of Health, told silicon.com in response to the enquiry that they do not differentiate between 'lost' and 'stolen' laptops - an approach that ignores one of the most critical elements of risk assessment. [03 Aug 2006]
Exclusive: Laptop thefts pose gov data risk
News A submission from Defra, which lost 17 laptops, suggested government laptops are predominantly given out to senior members of staff at the departments. A Freedom of Information enquiry by silicon.com has uncovered the number of laptops stolen from... [03 Aug 2006]
Mobile phones leak from UK government
News Other findings from the FoI enquiry included some strange inclusions from Defra in a list of missing hardware. Defra also provided the names and direct telephone numbers for all staff who have reported lost devices and hardware - including a number... [03 Aug 2006]
Farmers to finally get £1.5bn subsidy cash after IT woes
News But incoming Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) Secretary of State David Miliband - who took over from Margaret Beckett in the Prime Minister's cabinet reshuffle - claims more payments have now been made and that 85 per... [12 May 2006]
£100,000 salary on offer for new Defra CIO
News The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is offering a £100,000 salary for a new CIO to replace David Myers who has left to work for the government's shared services team. The new Defra CIO will join with the department as it... [12 Apr 2006]
