Food and farming industry

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Services

• Get help and support for your business

  Get business support and advice over the phone and online - setting up and running a business.

• Make or update a rural payments claim

  Update your details with the Rural Payments Agency to keep claiming payments for your farm land

• Use Cattle Tracing System (CTS) Online

  Register with BCMS's online service to register cattle births and report cattle deaths and cattle movements online

• Agricultural Sick Pay

  Agricultural Sick Pay means you're paid wages while you're sick - can you get it, how to claim, what you'll get

• Planning permission for farms

  When you need planning permission, where to apply, what counts as permitted development and how to appeal a planning permission decision

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Guidance and regulation

• Register land you use to keep livestock
  • Detailed guide
  • 12 December 2022
  • Rural Payments Agency, British Cattle Movement Service, and Animal and Plant Health Agency
• Agricultural vehicle licences, tax information and fuel
  • Detailed guide
  • 16 July 2018
  • Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency
• Import risk categories for animals and animal products imported from the EU to Great Britain, from 31 October 2023
  • Guidance
  • 25 May 2023
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Animal and Plant Health Agency
• Importing and exporting fresh fruit and vegetables
  • Detailed guide
  • 7 December 2022
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Seasonal Worker visa route request for information (RFI)
  • Notice
  • 27 June 2022
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs

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News and communications

• Coffey: We’re listening and making ELMs work for upland farmers
  • 26 May 2023
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Press release
• Scrapping retained EU red tape on wine to unlock £180 million
  • 21 May 2023
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Press release
• UK leads the way on agricultural innovation at Washington D.C. Climate Summit
  • 9 May 2023
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
  • Press release
• Rural Payments Agency update - April 2023
  • 14 April 2023
  • Rural Payments Agency
  • Correspondence
• Webinar: Testing for CBD in novel foods
  • 13 April 2023
  • Government Chemist
  • News story

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Research and statistics

• Historical national statistics notices on milk utilisation by dairies, 2023
  • 1 June 2023
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • National statistics
• Wholesale fruit and vegetable prices
  • 30 May 2023
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Statistical data set
• Banana prices
  • 30 May 2023
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Statistical data set
• Latest UK milk prices and composition of milk
  • 25 May 2023
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • National statistics
• Animal feed prices
  • 25 May 2023
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Statistical data set

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Policy papers and consultations

• Contractual practice in the UK pig sector
  • 6 April 2023
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Consultation outcome
  • Date closed 07 October 2022
• Review of the Veterinary Medicines Regulations 2013
  • 2 February 2023
  • Veterinary Medicines Directorate
  • Open consultation
  • Date closed 31 March 2023
• Government Chemist Strategy 2023-2026
  • 5 May 2023
  • Government Chemist
  • Policy paper
• Nature markets
  • 30 March 2023
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Policy paper
• Environmental Land Management update: how government will pay for land-based environment and climate goods and services
  • 15 February 2023
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Policy paper

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

• FOI/EIR responses published by APHA: December 2022
  • 9 May 2023
  • Animal and Plant Health Agency
  • Foi release
• National Reference Laboratory for Trichinella and Echinococcus: annual reports
  • 5 May 2023
  • Animal and Plant Health Agency
  • Corporate report
• FOI/EIR responses published by APHA: November 2022
  • 31 March 2023
  • Animal and Plant Health Agency
  • Foi release
• FOI/EIR responses published by APHA: October 2022
  • 24 January 2023
  • Animal and Plant Health Agency
  • Foi release
• FOI/EIR responses published by APHA: September 2022
  • 5 January 2023
  • Animal and Plant Health Agency
  • Foi release

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Organisations

• Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs
• Rural Payments Agency
• Animal & Plant Health Agency
• Groceries Code Adjudicator
• Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street

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• Centre for Environment Fisheries and Aquaculture Science
• Office of the Secretary of State for Scotland
• Veterinary Medicines Directorate
• Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment
• Department for Business & Trade
• Department for Transport
• Department of Health & Social Care
• Home Office
• Northern Ireland Office
• Office of the Secretary of State for Wales
• Department for Work & Pensions
• Driver & Vehicle Licensing Agency
• Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
• Marine Management Organisation
• RDPE Network
• Cabinet Office
• Department for Energy Security & Net Zero
• Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities
• Department for Science, Innovation & Technology
• HM Treasury
• UK Visas and Immigration

• Government Chemist
• Environment Agency
• Natural England
• Forestry Commission
• Trade and Agriculture Commission
• British Cattle Movement Service