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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