Government funding Archives - Ocean and Coastal Futures

20 Aug 2026

£65m package announced by government for drought-hit farmers

Photo by Johnny Such on Unsplash The UK government announced a £65mn funding package on Friday (14 August), to improve water access and drought resilience for struggling farmers. The measures announced include up to £15 million for on-farm reservoirs and plans to make it easier to develop new water storage infrastructure. Using the “C” word […]

29 Jul 2015

Shrinking the State – Defra to prepare plans to cut 25-40% of their budget

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Coming on the heels of an announced £83 million cut in 2015-16 (almost 4 per cent) taken off its £2.1 billion budget Chancellor George Osborne has announced the spending review where he is asking unprotected departments like Defra for savings of between 25-40% over the Parliament; the plans will be announced in November. Whilst DECC […]