The council for one of the UK’s flattest and lowest counties plans to supplement its response to frequent flooding with greater use of automated technology to support citizens and officials […]...

The Rural Payments Agency, which oversees the delivery of more than 40 support schemes, is looking to deploy new digital systems that use satellite imagery to enable remote compliance monitoring […]...

The environment department’s annual report indicates that scores of applications were successfully closed down or remediated during the 2023-24 year, enabling the imminent closure of a clutch of infrastructure facilities […]...

Environment department retains major consultancy to monitor the performance of its software and deliver maintenance services, which Defra claims will enable civil service professionals to spend time on strategic planning […]...

As official data for last year shows sewage crisis worsening, the government is creating additional ways for the public to report issues, which currently typically  number about 100,000 per annum […]...

With an array of agencies and a technology estate containing hundreds of legacy apps, the environment department requires a group of cyber suppliers to run the rule over its systems […]...

The environment department creates the Digital Express Toolkit, which is designed to work in concert with the generic GOV.UK Forms tool in order to meet the organisation’s ‘quite specific requirements’ […]...

A new system launched by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency is hoped to ‘revolutionise’ how the country responds to the likes of floods and wildfires to landslide and oil spills […]...

Major new technology and data infrastructure is intended to help researchers to study and mitigate economic and societal impacts as ‘climate change is sadly making extreme weather events more common’ […]...

Local authority unveils digital platform enabling citizens to access guidance and check information on services, after study revealed that half of local residents have thrown recyclable items in the rubbish […]...