Media enquiries

Contact our press office if you’re a journalist with a media enquiry.

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Department
for Environment,
Food & Rural Affairs

If you have a general enquiry about Defra’s work, you should contact the Defra helpline.

Defra group press office

Defra group press office only deals with enquiries from the media.

It covers the work of the following Defra group organisations:

• Defra
• Environment Agency
• Natural England
• Animal and Plant Health Agency
• Forestry Commission
• Rural Payments Agency

Newsdesk

For media queries between 9am and 6pm on weekdays:

• Telephone: 0330 041 6560
• newsdesk@defra.gov.uk (monitored 9am to 6pm on weekdays)

Out of hours

For media queries before 9am and after 6pm on weekdays, and on weekends and public holidays:

• Telephone: 0345 051 8486