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:

Departmental strategic objectives for the department (our current summary)
Comprehensive spending review 2007 and business planning in more detail

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

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