Energy saving has received a blow as various organisations were assessing how hard they would be hit by the £250 million of cuts imposed by the coalition government. The Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) will lose £162m, and the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), some £85m. DECC's three largest delivery bodies, the Nuclear Decommissioning Agency, the Carbon Trust and the Energy Saving Trust, are all expected to see budgets cut by an average of 1 per cent this year.