Steve Reed

Government promises to fast-track measures to streamline environmental rules for planning and infrastructure in response to Corry Review

Changes under Simpler Recycling plans are designed to boost recycling rates, deliver cost savings, and reduce waste sent to landfill

Government unveils clean-up plans following years of campaigns and complaints over sewage spills in Lake Windermere

Environment Secretary Steve Reed's address to the 2025 National Farmers' Union (NFU) Conference - in full

New legislation to receive Royal Assent, handing regulators fresh powers to ban water industry bonuses, impose tougher fines, and even pursue custodial sentences

Full connection of the 25 kilometre-long sewer tunnel should help prevent 95 per cent of sewage spills into the Thames

Major consultation exercise aims to shape new strategy to ensure UK delivers on food security, clean energy, nature, and housing goals, but government promises it 'will not tell people what to do'

Environment Secretary Steve Reed promises more support for sustainable domestic food producers, reforms to boost on-farm clean energy generation, and environmental protections in all future trade deals

Steve Reed and Angela Rayner signal intention to revamp a planning system that is currently failing both prospective homeowners and nature

The government's Food Security Report points to a worsening outlook that suggests a major overhaul of domestic and global food systems is urgently needed