Could do better

• Localización: Veterinary Record, ISSN-e 2042-7670, Vol. 176, Nº. 13, 2015, págs. 318-318
• Idioma: inglés
• Enlaces
  • Texto completo
• Resumen

  • When the Coalition Government was formed after the General Election in 2010 it promised to ‘turn government on its head, taking power away from Whitehall and putting it into the hands of people and communities’. Quite a few things seem to have been turned upside down over the past five years but how much power has been transferred to people and communities is, perhaps, debatable. With the current Parliament about to be dissolved and the country bracing itself for another General Election, the House of Commons Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee (EFRACom), whose role is to scrutinise the activities of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), has produced an end-of-term report discussing some of its activities over the past five years and how well Defra has performed.1 The purpose, it says, is to provide a guide to some of the areas where Defra's policies and practices have the most impact and to identify issues that will merit scrutiny in the next Parliament.