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<p>At present, there are no direct system-to-system data exchanges between Rural Payments
Agency and Environment Agency systems. Defra is committed to sharing data internally
within the Department, externally across Government and with any interested party.
Both the Rural Payments Agency and the Environment Agency publish datasets on the
publicly available Defra Multi-Agency Geographic Information for the Countryside website,
and within the Defra Spatial Repository and Toolkits which are accessible to all Defra
Group organisations. Defra also publishes more than 8,000 datasets, which are publicly
available under open licence.</p><p> </p><p>However, both organisations have access
to the Defra Customer and Land Database (CLAD) which is due to be replaced in 2019
by a system called CLARIS, which will enable the Environment Agency to have access
to Rural Payments Agency land data. Additionally, the Rural Payments Agency periodically
provides the Environment Agency with a manual extract of data relating to the ownership
of land within Nitrate Vulnerable Zones for cross-compliance purposes.</p><p> </p><p>As
part of its wider consolidation and upgrade of IT systems the Defra Group is adopting
shared IT platforms, for example cloud email services, document management, customer
relationship management and identity management platforms. Agency data will coexist
within the same physical platforms which may facilitate data sharing where there is
a specific purpose for that data to be shared, and this is done in accordance with
regulations such as the Data Protection Act and appropriate interagency data sharing
agreements.</p><p> </p><p> </p>
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