Statutory guidance: SR2010 No 14: 500t composting biodegradable waste

Updated: Added to ‘details’ section: You can apply online for most standard rules environmental permits.

Standard rules guidance to operate a composting activity involving the storage, physical treatment and composting of specified biodegradable wastes in an open or closed (in-vessel) composting system.

You can apply online for most standard rules environmental permits.

Apply for a standard rules environmental permit.




Official Statistics: Rural economic bulletin

Updated: Published today, revised version to correct some rural redundancy rates due to an error in original ONS figures.

The indicators currently used are:

  • claimant count
  • economic activity
  • redundancies
  • house prices
  • business insolvencies

Additional information:

Defra statistics: rural

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Collection: ACRE: advisory reports on requests to release genetically modified organisms

Updated: Added the advice on a trial of GM Streptococcus pneumoniae (18/R51/01).

All requests to release GMOs into the environment, like GM crop trials or clinical tests of GM vaccines, are referred by government to ACRE.

ACRE assesses each request against the possible risks to human health or the environment. If more information is needed to review the application then ACRE will request this from the applicant directly.

Finally ACRE publishes a report that sets out a summary of its findings in each case. This recommends government either approves or denies the request, and may also contain conditions or monitoring measures that ACRE thinks should be included.

The most recent advisory reports from ACRE are:




Research and analysis: London basin chalk aquifer annual status report

Updated: 2018 report added.

This report describes current levels of groundwater and abstraction within the London basin chalk aquifer, and why changes may have occurred. It also describes the current abstraction licensing policy and groundwater management issues.




Statistical data set: International industrial energy prices

Updated: Tables 5.3.1 and 5.7.1 updated.

Industrial electricity prices in the IEA (QEP 5.3.1)

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Industrial gas prices in the IEA (QEP 5.7.1)

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