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Annual Reports
CO: Government departments are continuing to improve as they prepare for the challenges of the next 10 years, according to the latest round of capability re-reviews. The reviews (published by the Cabinet Office) outline the progress made by the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO), the Ministry of Defence (MoD), the Department for International Development (DFID), the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS).
The FCO and Defra both showed significant improvement in their ability to lead & deliver, while maintaining high scores in strategy. DCMS improved on all 3 measures of strategic thinking, the MoD has continued to improve in strategy and DFID once again performed extremely well in all fields.
Defra: An updated overview of biodiversity in the UK has been published by Defra, which helps gives insight into the health of our natural environment. Biodiversity is the variety of individual species, the genetic diversity within species and the range of ecosystems that support them.
These 18 indicators were agreed in 2007 by the UK Biodiversity Partnership to summarise some of the key priorities for biodiversity in the UK. They include the population status of: key species; plant diversity; the status of priority species, habitats & ecosystems; genetic diversity of rare breeds of sheep & cattle; protected sites; management of woodland agricultural land & fisheries; impacts of air pollution & invasive species; expenditure on biodiversity; and the amount of time given by volunteers to nature conservation activities.
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