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We are responsible for improving and protecting the environment. We aim to grow a green economy and sustain thriving rural communities. We also support our world-leading food, farming and fishing industries. Defra is a ministerial department, supported by 34 agencies...
Get help to classify cigarettes, cigars, raw tobacco, smoking tobacco, tobacco for heating and nicotine substitutes for import and export.
We pursue our national interests and those of British citizens. We safeguard the UK’s security, defend our values, reduce poverty and tackle global challenges with our international partners. FCDO is a ministerial department, supported by 12 agencies and public bodies...
The cases we most commonly handle are disputes relating to: personal injury negligence breach of contract breach of a statutory duty breach of the Human Rights Act 1998 libel, slander and other torts non-payment of a debt and ‘enforcement orders’...
The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) is made up of 9 divisions: 5 science and technology divisions and 4 enabling divisions.
We hear cases where a child who is the subject of legal proceedings must be protected and this protection is not possible under the Children Act 1989. This is called our ‘inherent jurisdiction’. The most common type of case is...
The most common types of case we handle include: disputes relating to business, property or land disputes over trusts competition claims under either European or UK competition law commercial disputes (domestic and international) intellectual property issues disputes over the validity...
The department was created in 1997 to replace the Department of the Environment, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and Department for Transport. It was dissolved in 2001.
Get help to classify rice and related products for direct human consumption for import and export.
The Department for International Development has closed. It’s been replaced by the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO).
Find out about group and divisional VAT registration and the forms you should use to apply.
How to register as a producer, and the rules you must follow to produce and market bottled drinking water.
How to stop the spread and dispose of invasive non-native plants that can harm the environment in England.
Business potential of producing crops for non-food markets, how and where to grow them and details of organisations providing grants.
How councils assess and deal with nuisance odours from industrial, trade and business premises.
How the government monitors imports into the UK.
If you’re importing commercial samples from countries outside the UK, you may be able to claim relief from Customs Duty and VAT.
Find out about UK forces in Afghanistan
Licence and registration application information for companies that deal in precursor chemicals.
DIUS is now a part of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
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