We Don't Need No Actual Protections?

The UK's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) is charged with protecting the country's air quality, food security, water pollution etc. DEFRA has, however, been deliberately underfunded for decades. This in the mistaken belief that its activities simply curb rural 'entrepreneurialism' (AKA profiteering). DEFRA is now largely 'toothless'. A parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC) report further reveals that DEFRA is so impoverished, that many of its activities use only paper records (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/09/outdated-it-systems-uk-food-security-air-quality-defra-public-accounts-committee). The PAC report notes that DEFRA runs using outdated IT systems, with no protections from cyber attacks (don't tell anyone!). It's forced to use old equipment (often purchased secondhand) and ancient programmes with no updates (DEFRA can't afford them). The UK essentially has a notional body, simply 'set up to fail' on environmental protections. This is criminal, given the UK's current array of challenges!