You’ll need a stock of official ear tags to use when calves are born on your holding, and if a tag is lost or the number can no longer be read you’ll need to get a replacement.

You can only buy official ear tags from suppliers registered with the British Cattle Movement Service (BCMS).

• List of
  suppliers and the official tags they supply
  (PDF, 152KB, 8 pages)
  

Order a new batch of tags

When you request a batch of official tags, the supplier will need to know your herd mark and County Parish Holding (CPH) number. They will use this to get the run of individual unique animal numbers for your tags from BCMS’s Ear Tag Allocation System database. The supplier will send the printed tags direct to you.

You should not apply for more ear tags than you will use in one year. Unused ear tags must be kept securely.

Get replacements for lost tags

If you do need to replace an illegible or lost tag, contact any supplier of approved tags to order a replacement.

Always use the correct applicator for the type of tag you are using and follow the manufacturer’s instructions.

Give feedback about ear tags

BCMS monitors, and may act on, feedback from cattle keepers about official ear tags. You can
download a feedback form
(PDF, 854KB, 2 pages)

or get one from your supplier.

Welsh language version of this page

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.

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

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.