| | Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the |
| | 3,13 | | MB | Forestry Commission: Departmental Report 2005 |
| | 369 | | stron |
| | 2647 | | ID | Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs |
| | 2005 | | rok |
| | Contents |
| | Foreword 9 |
| | Introduction 13 |
| | Chapter 1 Aim, strategic priorities and Departmental structure 17 |
| | Aim 17 |
| | Strategic Priorities 17 |
| | Five Year Strategy 18 |
| | Departmental Reform Programme 20 |
| | The Department’s Ministers 2004-05 22 |
| | The Department’s Ministers from May 2005 24 |
| | The Department’s Management Board 26 |
| | Chapter 2: Delivering our strategic priorities 29 |
| | Promoting sustainable development 30 |
| | Public Service Agreement target 1: Sustainable Development 30 |
| | Climate change and energy 46 |
| | Public Service Agreement target 2: Improving the environment 46 |
| | Public Service Agreement target 7: Reducing fuel poverty 66 |
| | Public Service Agreement target 8: Improve air quality 68 |
| | Sustainable consumption and production 80 |
| | Public Service Agreement target 6: Waste 83 |
| | Protecting the countryside and natural resource protection 93 |
| | Public Service Agreement target 3a: Reversing the decline in farmland birds 94 |
| | Public Service Agreement target 3b: Sites of Special Scientific Interest 97 |
| | Public Service Agreement target 3c: Enhancing access to mountain, moor |
| | heath and down and registered common land 116 |
| | Sustainable rural communities 123 |
| | Public Service Agreement target 4: Rural productivity 123 |
| | Sustainable farming and food including animal health and welfare 139 |
| | Public Service Agreement target 5: Reform of the Common Agricultural Policy 140 |
| | Public Service Agreement target 5: Sustainable farming and food 147 |
| | Public Service Agreement target 9: Reducing the annual incidence of Bovine Spongiform |
| | Encephalopathy 166 |
| | Public Service Agreement target 9: Reducing the time taken to clear up cases of poor welfare in |
| | farmed animals 169 |
| | Emergency Preparedness 177 |
| | Chapter 3: Defra’s Executive Agencies |
| | Rural Payments Agency 186 |
| | Veterinary Laboratories Agency 191 |
| | Central Science Laboratory 194 |
| | Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science 197 |
| | Pesticides Safety Directorate 199 |
| | Veterinary Medicines Directorate 203 |
| | Chapter 4: Working with others: Defra’s public bodies 207 |
| | Environment Agency 207 |
| | Countryside Agency 210 |
| | English Nature 214 |
| | British Waterways 217 |
| | Chapter 5 – Forestry Commission 220 |
| | Chapter 6 – A Department fit for purpose 239 |
| | Departmental Reform Programme 240 |
| | Evidence-based policy-making 246 |
| | Corporate services and systems aligned to business needs 256 |
| | People and performance 264 |
| | Chapter 7 Core Tables 275 |
| | Appendix 1: Relationship between 2004 and 2002 Spending Review targets 293 |
| | Appendix 2: Summary of progress against outstanding Comprehensive Spending Review 1998 |
| | Public Service Agreement target 294 |
| | Appendix 3: Summary of progress against outstanding 2000 Spending Review Public Service |
| | Agreement targets 295 |
| | Appendix 4: Summary of progress against outstanding 2002 Spending Review Public Service |
| | Agreement targets 298 |
| | Appendix 5: Measuring performance against 2002 Spending Review Public Service Agreement |
| | targets 303 |
| | Appendix 6 Non-departmental public bodies 315 |
| | Appendix 7: Public appointments 339 |
| | Appendix 8: Public Accounts Committee Recommendations 340 |
| | Appendix 9: Better Regulation 341 |
| | Appendix 10 Health and safety 354 |
| | Abbreviations and acronyms 357 |
| | Useful links and publications 362 |
| | Index 367 |