Rural and countryside
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Services
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Make or update a rural payments claim
Update your details with the Rural Payments Agency to keep claiming payments for your farm land
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Owning a boat
Check what safety requirements and insurance are needed to use a boat on UK rivers, canals, or at sea - boat safety certificates, safety regulations and equipment, disposing of old flares
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Register a boat
Register or license a boat for use on the UK's inland waterways or at sea - which authority to register with, the UK Ship Register and Small Ships Register, penalties and fines
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Rights of way and accessing land
Rights of way and right to roam - access rights of way, open access and permissive access land, use common lands, the Countryside Code, report problems
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Rural Development Programme for England
Rural Development Programme for England - funding and current schemes
Guidance and regulation
- Countryside Productivity Scheme
- Prevent Japanese knotweed from spreading
- BPS 2019
- Balai Directive: moving live animals, semen and embryos
- Public rights of way: landowner responsibilities
News and communications

Correspondence
Climate change and forestry: position statement
- Secretary of State Appoints NPAs and AONB Conservation Boards
- eAlert: 22 August 2019 - Managing ash trees affected by ash dieback
- Chesterfield man nets £431 penalty for fishing without a licence
- Movement authorisation and timber plant passporting in Kent
Research and statistics
- Nursery Survey: 2019 Edition
- Rural expenditure statistics
- Rural poverty statistics
- Rural business statistics
- Rural economic activity statistics
Policy papers and consultations
- National FCERM strategy: Strategic Environmental Assessment scoping report
- Conservation covenants
- Use of general licences for the management of certain wild birds: a call for evidence
- RDPE programme document 2014 to 2020
- Provenance choice of native trees under climate change in England - Policy Advice Note
Transparency and freedom of information releases
- Forestry Commission spend over £25,000 (2019)
- River Thames: annual report
- Register of Interests - Forestry Commissioners
- 2019 Government Procurement Card (GPC) spend for transactions over £500
- Executive Board meeting, 4 February 2019, Bristol
Organisations
- Natural England
- Forestry Commission
- Environment Agency
- Defence Infrastructure Organisation
- UK Co-ordinating Body
- Innovate UK
- UK Hydrographic Office
- Highways England
- Industrial Injuries Advisory Council
- Marine Accident Investigation Branch
- Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
- High Speed Two (HS2) Limited
- HM Prison Service
- Military Aviation Authority
- Nuclear Decommissioning Authority