Guidance: Training courses: oil pollution, contingency planning and response

Updated: Updated to the latest information note for 2018-19

The MCA’s Counter Pollution Branch offers courses to local authorities on planning for and responding to shoreline oil pollution. This leaflet and booking form contains details and dates of current courses.




Guidance: Training materials: oil pollution, contingency planning, response

Updated: Updated the presentations to the latest for 2018-19

This OCPR course is for emergency planning officers in LAs and national government officers and covers all aspects of spill response from the LA perspective. It provides management staff with an overview of oil pollution response and how their roles and responsibilities fit into the NCP.

MCA does not provide training materials on the course. You should download and print off these files and bring them with you to the course.

  • [LA] Local Authority
  • [MCA] Maritime and Coastguard Agency
  • [NCP] national contingency plan
  • [OCPR] oil pollution, contingency planning and response



Collection: Energy Performance of Buildings Certificates

Updated: Added link to EPC publication Q2 2018 covering data from 2008 to June 2018

This quarterly series of experimental official statistics is released by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.

It presents information about certificates on the energy efficiency of domestic and non-domestic buildings in England and Wales that have been constructed, sold, or let since 2008, and of larger public authority buildings recorded since 2008.

Figures are drawn from 2 datasets on the Energy Performance of Buildings Registers:

  • Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs) for domestic and non-domestic properties covering England and Wales
  • Display Energy Certificates (DECs) for buildings occupied by public authorities in England and Wales

Statistics cover the period from 2008 to date, with an aggregate level breakdown by England and Wales, by regions, local authority, by property and tenure types.

The tables show data from certificates lodged on the Energy Performance of Buildings Registers since 2008, including average energy efficiency ratings, energy use, carbon dioxide emissions and fuel costs, average floor area sizes and numbers of certificates recorded.

On the live tables a new set of data tables on existing dwellings alone has also been added.

More details about regulatory context and data quality are in Energy Performance of Buildings Certificates: notes and definitions.

Feedback

These experimental official statistics are still subject to evaluation and testing. They are being published on account of their immediate value and we welcome interested parties to become involved in their development.

We would especially like to hear from users about how the information is accessed and used, so that we can better meet your needs. Please complete our short survey and let us know how we might make our statistics more useful.

We are considering reducing the frequency of this statistics release from quarterly to half yearly. If you have views on this or on the statistical release more generally, please contact us. You can contact us at EPBStats@communities.gsi.gov.uk and tell us briefly how you use the information, and how it makes a difference to your work.




Guidance: Fees for applications concerning manufacturers and wholesalers

Updated: Additional Fee codes added for Wholesale Dealer Inspections

This is part of a collection of fees sheets.

Fees charged for applications relating to manufacturers and wholesale dealers of veterinary medicines, including inspections as set out in schedule 7 of the Veterinary Medicines Regulations.




Collection: National operator waste returns

Updated: The Environment Agency has published the materials facility combined waste returns spreadsheet. They’ve removed the PDF form for paper returns to encourage electronic submissions. The paper form is still available by request. They’ve also removed the out of date waste returns spreadsheet guide.

Operators with an environmental permit must complete waste returns to tell the Environment Agency about the waste they have received or removed from their site.

The Environment Agency uses this information to:

  • monitor a site’s compliance with its environmental permit conditions
  • compile national statistics about waste

How to complete your waste return

You can complete your return in 1 of 3 ways:

  1. Use the Generic Operator Returns spreadsheet to upload or enter your data.
  2. Email your waste returns spreadsheet.
  3. Request a paper form from the Environment Agency – call 03708 506 506 (see call charges) or email enquiries@environment-agency.gov.uk.

Deadlines for submitting waste returns

Quarterly returns

Quarters Deadline for return
1 January to 31 March 30 April
1 April to 30 June 31 July
1 July to 30 September 31 October
1 October to 31 December 31 January

Yearly returns

Annual return period Deadline for return
1 January to 31 December 31 January of the following year