{"id":1173,"date":"2013-03-20T19:46:01","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T19:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/?page_id=1173"},"modified":"2014-12-03T17:24:20","modified_gmt":"2014-12-03T17:24:20","slug":"defra","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/?page_id=1173","title":{"rendered":"DEFRA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <b>Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs<\/b> (<b>Defra<\/b>) is the government department responsible for environmental protection, food production and standards, agriculture, fisheries and rural communities in the United Kingdom. . Defra also leads for Britain at the EU on agricultural, fisheries and environment matters and in other international negotiations on sustainable development and climate change, although a new <a title=\"Department of Energy and Climate Change\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Department_of_Energy_and_Climate_Change\">Department of Energy and Climate Change<\/a> was created on 3 October 2008 to take over the last responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>It was formed in June 2001 , when the <a title=\"Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (United Kingdom)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ministry_of_Agriculture,_Fisheries_and_Food_(United_Kingdom)\">Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food<\/a> (MAFF) was merged with part of the <a title=\"DETR\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/DETR\">Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions<\/a> (DETR) and with a small part of the <a title=\"Home Office\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Home_Office\">Home Office<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is the government department responsible for environmental protection, food production and standards, agriculture, fisheries and rural communities in the United Kingdom. . Defra also leads for Britain at the EU on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/?page_id=1173\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":79,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"onecolumn-page.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1173"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1173"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2488,"href":"https:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1173\/revisions\/2488"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}