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Every entry on this page, generated from data.json. Click a name to open its panel at the top of the page. Entries with one source are tagged "one source".

Entry	Type	First source	Confidence	ID

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1 link cardsThese items were researched on this page but their full entry lives on another page, so they are counted once, there.

GOV-DEFRA-016 Met Office (now sponsored by BIST) and its ATRS forecasting record → Met Office — sponsorship full entry on the BIST page

Identity

As written in the research. Data as of 28 October 2026 (edition 2.1).

official nameDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

short labelDefra

govuk categoryMinisterial department

govuk urlgov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-e

headquartersSeacole Building, 2 Marsham Street, London, SW1P 4DF, United Kingdom, postcode SW1P 4DF, lat 51.495868, lng -0.129786 (sources: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-environment-food-rural-affairs ; https://api.postcodes.io/postcodes/SW1P4DF)

parent (as of 2026-10-28)HM Government (ministerial department)

previous parent / parent changednone. Note: the Met Office is NOT a Defra body; the October 2026 list of executive agencies places it under the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade (previously DSIT; its GOV.UK page still says DSIT). The Food Standards Agency is a non-ministerial department listed under the Department of Health and Social Care.

blurbThe department for the environment, farming and food; it runs an internal AI toolkit with its own question-answering assistant, uses computer vision and satellite data to map peat and habitats, and has eight systems on the algorithmic transparency register across Defra, the Environment Agency and Natural England.

website still shows old brandingno for Defra. The Met Office GOV.UK page still says "sponsored by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology", and the Met Office ATRS record lists DSIT as the organisation.

Gaps the research left open

10Shown as gaps, never filled in by guesswork. Supplement 1 (the second pass) closed some; they are listed below.

No standalone "Defra AI strategy" publication was found on GOV.UK; the API query for Defra AI policy papers returned a server error. Defra's AI approach is documented in the AI digital toolkit (digital.defra.gov.uk) and the Defra Digital blog, not in a GOV.UK policy paper.
Rural Payments Agency remote sensing: no page was found describing RPA satellite or remote-sensing checks; the Earth Observation roadmap page does not mention the RPA.
Defra's GOV.UK page says 36 agencies and public bodies but does not list them; the index page was not opened.
Satellite monitoring of land use: only Living England (Natural England) and the Earth Observation roadmap were sourced; the Land Use Framework (6 May 2026) and Farming Roadmap 2050 pages contain no AI or satellite sentences.
The Met Office's own "who we are" page does not state its sponsoring department or name its Chief Executive; Simon Brown is "Acting Chief Executive" only in a June 2026 release.
FastNet has no dated milestones on the Met Office page; its operational status is "in development".
The Food Standards Agency's AI work beyond the retired FHRS-AI record was not researched (non-ministerial; Regulators page).
Coordinates were fetched only for the Defra HQ postcode; agency sites (Bristol, York, Reading, Addlestone) were not geocoded. — Partly closed (Supplement 1): S1b GOV-DEFRA-012 (two rows), 015, 020. Reading (Rural Payments Agency, GOV-DEFRA-019) is "PO Box 69, Reading, RG1 3YD"; the RPA page's other addresses are a Worksop PO box and team offices in Exeter, Carlisle and London. No head-office address, so no marker.
The three "What's changed" toolkit posts (2, 6 and 28 October) are listed without a year on the toolkit page; the year 2026 is inferred from the ATRS record date and is marked as such.
Emma Reynolds's tenure as Environment Secretary and the date Angela Eagle succeeded her were not found on the pages opened.

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