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It never rains but it pours for DEFRA it seems. Just as the disease crisis is beginning to abate, funding cuts and a new ‘probable leak’ at Pirbright suggest the department is far from out of the woods.
Being forced to cut more than £270m from their budget, DEFRA has decided that offering officials an extremely generous redundancy scheme and the rest of the workforce a below inflation pay rise is the ‘most efficient use of resources.’ The increase has been shunned by employees, who are currently balloting on strike action.
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In other news, the government’s chief scientist Sir David King has given public backing to GM technology, saying Europe has a moral responsibility to grow GM crops if the world is to satisfy its growing population.
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Emily Padfield |
