| It is a compulsorily notifiable disease in the UK and any suspicion or confirmation of the disease should be immediately notified to Defra. |
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| Defra does not have compulsory powers to sample deer and needs permission from the landowner or deer owner. |
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| Now Defra has announced that the Government will keep the rural exceptions policy, allowing local councils to grant planning permission for affordable homes. |
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| It accused Defra of deliberately ignoring deer and pointing the finger at badgers instead, even though a TB-infected badger had never been found in Cumbria. |
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| Meanwhile Defra is urging farmers to sign up to a scheme piloting a gamma interferon test, which could reduce the time herds are under restriction. |
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| The zones have been introduced by Defra officials amid fears the disease could spread to highly populated pig breeding areas in East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. |
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| He wants district and county councils to take over a lot of Defra budgets. |
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| Defra said blood tests carried out on a flock bought to restock a farm in Kirby Stephen, Cumbria, detected positive antibodies in the one animal. |
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| Defra commissioned an independent review by the Institution of Civil Engineers under George Fleming. |
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| A full list of departmental delivery and public bodies may be found on the Defra website. |
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| Natural England takes its finance, human resources and estates services from the Defra Shared Services organisation. |
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| On 19 September 2007, a suspected case of FMD was found in Solihull, where a temporary control zone was set up by Defra. |
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| Defra says that there is evidence the SDA produced by corn gromwell can be converted to the same sort of essential fatty acid found in oily fish. |
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| Not to be read by Defra, politicians, townies and anyone else who dares interfere with the countryside. |
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| I support the decision to suspend Merial's licence to operate until the systems are rechecked, but Defra must complete this work with the utmost speed. |
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| Defra is responsible for British Government policy in the following areas. |
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| Certain diseases, such as anthrax, are classified as notifiable diseases and those diseases must be reported to Defra if they are con-firmed or even suspected. |
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| Through all our letter boxes this week dropped yet another barmy proposal dreamt up by DEFRA in response to the 1991 Nitrates Directive. |
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| The first phase of the plan, launched by DEFRA in July, was for pedigree sheep breeders. |
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| It worries me that DEFRA is putting more restrictions on movements, when all that seems to be doing is clobbering the farmer. |
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| In addition, it provides advice to DEFRA on the transposition of European water legislation in England and Wales. |
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| He also works as a contractor for DEFRA on TB clearance and as a saleyard vet for auctioneers Brightwells. |
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| Starting in February 2004, DEFRA in association with the Environment Agency implemented a portable barrier which is erected at times of floods. |
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| A DEFRA study from 2006 suggested that 100 species have become extinct in the UK during the 20th century, about 100 times the background extinction rate. |
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