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Defra's strategy documents

Our priorities were formalised in the comprehensive spending review 2007, and reviewed in 2008 following the creation of the Department of Climate Change and Energy (DECC). See:

Earlier strategy documents

  • The department published its five year strategy in 2004, covering the following five years and beyond. It showed our plans to take forward our strategic priorities
  • Our strategy 03-06 described our plans to take forward the 2002 spending review settlement – it addressed the practicalities of the long-term plan set out in Defra's prospectus
  • Defra's prospectus, Working for the Essentials of Life (PDF, 1.23 MB) was developed in 2001 to explain our work in protecting the essentials of life: air, land, water and food. It set out our vision for the future

Page last modified: 28 November 2008
Page published: 8 December 2004