National Statistics: Latest cereal stock statistics

Updated: Updated cereal stocks – farm dataset.

This publication gives tonnages of wheat, barley and oats stocks held on farms in England and Wales and of wheat, barley, oats and maize stocks held by UK ports, co-operatives and merchants. The information for farm stocks is updated twice a year; in February (datasets only), and in June together with annual UK ports cooperatives and merchants data (Statistical Notice and datasets). Grain is a globally traded commodity and supply and demand is influenced by international markets. Stocks are an important measure of grain availability and a key component of UK cereals supply and demand balance sheets. The stocks at the end of June in any particular year form the opening stocks for the following season.

Next update: The Statistical Notice published 31 August 2017 is the final publication of this series by Defra. Further publications and datasets will be published by the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) AHDB cereal usage data. Defra will continue to publish the statistical dataset for on farm stocks.

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Statutory guidance: Radioactive contaminated land: statutory guidance

Updated: We have updated the definitions to bring them in line with recent regulations.

This guidance is intended to explain how local authorities should implement the radioactive contaminated land regime, including how they should go about deciding whether land is ‘contaminated land’.




Statutory guidance: SR2009 No 4: combustion of biogas in engines at a sewage treatment works

Updated: We updated SR2009 No 4: combustion of biogas in engines at a sewage treatment works.

Standard rules and generic risk assessment for compression and spark ignition engines with an aggregated total rated thermal input of less than 5 megawatts to burn biogas produced from the digestion of sewage sludge at a sewage treatment works.

You can apply online for most standard rules environmental permits.

Apply for a standard rules environmental permit.




Transparency data: Environment Agency organisation structure chart

Updated: Updated with new chart October 2018.

This shows the Environment Agency organisation structure at a high level, including some of our management team for national and area teams.

You can also see a map of our operational areas.

We update the organisation chart every few months.

If you need help contacting the right part of the Environment Agency, please get in touch with our general enquiries team:

General enquiries

National Customer Contact Centre
PO Box 544
Rotherham
S60 1BY

Monday to Friday, 8am to 6pm




Transparency data: Bovine TB: compensation value tables

Updated: Added the October 2018 compensation table.

Compensation is paid according to published table values for any cattle compulsorily culled to control the spread of the following diseases:

  • bovine TB
  • brucellosis
  • enzootic bovine leukosis

In the guide to compensation for animals culled to control animal diseases, you can read about how the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) gathers information for the tables.

This publication page provides value tables for historical compensation claims and for reference.

Compensation tables for 2017 and earlier can be found on the National Archives website.