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Natural England

Type	Non-Departmental Public Body
Founded	1 October 2006
Headquarters	Sheffield, England
Key people	Sir Martin Doughty (Chairman) Dr Helen Phillips (Chief Executive)
Industry	Natural environment
Revenue	over £400 million GBP (2006)^[1]
Employees	2,500
Website	www.naturalengland.org.uk

Natural England is a Non-Departmental Public Body of the UK government. In the United Kingdom, a Non-Departmental Public Body (NDPB is a classification applied by the Cabinet Office, Treasury and Scottish Government Sheffield ( is a city and Metropolitan borough in South Yorkshire, England England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland For other uses of this term see Industry (disambiguation An industry (from Latin industrius, "diligent industrious" See also Nature The natural environment, commonly referred to simply as the environment, is a terminology that is comprised of all living and In business revenue or revenues is Income that a company receives from its normal business activities usually from the sale of goods and services The Pound Sterling ( symbol £; ISO code: GBP) subdivided into 100 pence (singular penny) is the Currency Employment is a Contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages In the United Kingdom, a Non-Departmental Public Body (NDPB is a classification applied by the Cabinet Office, Treasury and Scottish Government Her Majesty's Government, or when the monarch is male His Majesty's Government, is the title used by the Government of the United Kingdom, based at It was formed (vested) on 1 October 2006. Events 331 BC - Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. It is responsible for ensuring that England's natural environment, including its land, flora and fauna, freshwater and marine environments, geology and soils, are protected and improved. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland It also has a responsibility to help people enjoy, understand and access the natural environment.

Natural England was established by the Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act 2006, which implemented the recommendations of a rural review by Christopher Haskins, Baron Haskins of Skidby. Christopher Haskins Baron Haskins of Skidby (born 1937 in Dublin, Ireland) is a British / Irish Businessman, and former member of It was formed by the amalgamation of three founder bodies:

Countryside Agency, the landscape, access and recreation elements
English Nature
Rural Development Service, the environmental land management functions of Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)

It received the powers of the founder bodies e. The Countryside Agency in England was a statutory body set up in 1999 with the task of improving the quality of the rural environment and the lives of those living English Nature was the United Kingdom government agency that promoted the conservation of Wildlife, Geology and wild places throughout England The Rural Development Service (RDS was formerly part of the UK Government 's Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra The Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs ( Defra) is the United Kingdom government department responsible for environmental protection g. awarding grants; designating Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty and Sites of Special Scientific Interest; managing certain National Nature Reserves; overseeing access to open country and other recreation rights; and enforcing the associated regulations. An Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB is an area of countryside with significant landscape value in England, Wales or Northern Ireland A Site of Special Scientific Interest or SSSI is a Conservation designation denoting a Protected area in the United Kingdom. National Nature Reserve is a United Kingdom government Conservation designation for a Nature reserve of national significance for biological or earth science It is also responsible for the administration of numerous grant schemes and frameworks that finance the development and conservation of the natural environment, for example Environmental Stewardship. This page is on the organisation for the general concept see Ecological stewardship Environmental Stewardship is an Agri-environment scheme

As an NDPB it is theoretically independent of Government. However, the Secretary of State for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs will have the legal power to issue guidance to Natural England on various matters^[2], a constraint that is not placed on its predecessor NDPBs. The Secretary of State for Environment Food and Rural Affairs is a UK cabinet-level position in charge of the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs Natural England takes its Finance, Human Resources and Estates services from the Defra Shared Services organisation^[3]. Information Technology services are outsourced to IBM^[4]; it will be responsible for the delivery of some aspects of Defra's Public Service Agreements (e. g. reversing the long-term decline in the number of farmland birds by 2020 and improving public access to the countryside).

Natural England is focusing its activities and resources on four strategic outcomes:

a healthy natural environment
enjoyment of the natural environment
sustainable use of the natural environment
a secure environmental future

An article in the 'Farmer's Guardian' of 9th November, entitled "Staff morale low, but Natural England boss says farmer customers are happy" reported the results of a survey of the Natural England staff one year after the organisation was created. The following summary was given:

"Natural England Survey Summary

The employee survey was conducted in late September/early October to mark NE’s first year. About 2,000 employees responded.

THE MANAGEMENT - Asked if they could change one thing about NE, 635 people identified ‘senior management and leadership’. This was the top answer by 421 ‘votes’. - Just 5 per cent of those surveyed agreed that the executive board ‘listen to Natural England’s people’. 66 per cent disagreed. - 10 per cent said the board was ‘visible’, compared with 69 who said it was not. - Only 14 per cent said they had a say in changes that directly affected their job. Nearly two-thirds said they did not.

MORALE - Only 14 per cent of people said morale within their team was good, while two-thirds disagreed. One-fifth said their own morale was good. Three times as many said it was not. - Nearly 60 per cent did not feel secure in their role. - Just a fifth of workers were ‘proud’ to work for Natural England and only 17 per cent would recommend it as a place to work. - 15 per cent feel a ‘sense of belonging’ to the agency, compared with 59 per cent that do not.

CUSTOMER DELIVERY - Half believe Natural England’s quality of service to customers is getting worse, against 16 per cent who believe it is improving. - Only 29 per cent said Natural England was committed to customer satisfaction.

COMPARISON - Where comparisons with other Government departments and agencies were possible, Natural England scored lower than the average on 29 of 36 questions. - It did not achieve an above-average score on a single question. "

www. farmersguardian. com/story. asp?sectioncode=24&storycode=14181

References

[www. farmersguardian. com/story. asp?sectioncode=24&storycode=14181]

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