Sections · PESA departmental group

Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and its bodies. In 2025-26 the bodies in this section spent £6.3bn on services. £4.0bn of it (64.2%) can be followed to who received it, and at most 77.3% counting payees who are named but can't be identified yet.

Reached an identified organisation
Reached a recipient the publisher did not name
Reached people, counted by benefit
Reached staff (pay) or holders of government debt (interest), followed as one published total
Named payee, not yet identified (may be another public body)
Not followed

£6.3bn

spent on services, 2025-26 (PESA 2026, table 5.1)

64.2%

followed (64.2% counting outturn only)

£1.4bn

not followed at all, not even to a named payee

£2.2bn

passed on to other public bodies: counted where they spend it

How far it is followed, and why the rest can't be

Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs: 11 of 12 months publishedmeasured
Payment records for 2025-26 cover 11 months: 2025-04, 2025-05, 2025-06, 2025-07, 2025-08, 2025-09, 2025-10, 2025-11, 2025-12, 2026-01, 2026-02.
Below the publication threshold
Payments under £25,000 (central government and the NHS) or £500 (councils) are not published one by one. Some publishers list every payment anyway; most do not.
Pay: followed to staff as one total£2.0bnmeasured
Wages are never published person by person, and must not be. The staff costs of the 11 bodies in this section, from HM Treasury's OSCAR database (2025-26, provisional outturn), are counted as followed to their staff.

Where the records come from

Each publisher's 2025-26 payment records, and where their money went. "Identified" means matched to a registered company, charity or other organisation outside government; "named only", a payee named in the record but not yet matched; "passed on", paid to another public body.

Publisher	Months	Records	Identified	Named only	Withheld	Passed on
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs	11	11,342	£1.9bn	£791m	£0	£2.2bn
Forestry Commission group assumed	12	3,222	£57m	£25m	£0	£13m

The largest payees not yet identified

Payees paid £5m or more. Named in the records as shown, but not yet matched to a registered organisation or a public body. Some may be public bodies; until they are matched they are counted as followed by name only.

Payee, as published	2025-26
KIER INTERGRATED SERVICES LTD	£104m
CHESHIRE WEST CHESTER COUNCIL	£48m
ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS KEW	£39m
UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME UNEP	£21m
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY	£21m
NOVUNA VEHICLE SOLUTIONS	£20m
DEFRA	£20m
EDF ENERGY PLC	£20m
ALEXANDER MANN SOLUTIONS LTD-2WM	£18m
HMRC ACCOUNTS RECIEVABLE	£15m

What PESA says this section spends on

Function	2025-26	Share
Economic affairs	£4.1bn	65%
Environment protection	£2.0bn	33%
General public services	£150m	2%
Housing and community amenities	£9m	0%