Transparency data

October 2025

Updated 1 October 2025

Applies to England, Scotland and Wales

Compensation payable during October 2025, in England for a bovine animal compulsorily slaughtered for Bovine TB, Brucellosis and EBL disease control purposes will be as detailed below. 

Non-pedigree bovine categories 

Beef sector 

Male

Age Compensation due (£/head)
Up to and including 3 months 413
Over 3 months up to and including 6 months 762
Over 6 months up to and including 9 months 1,016
Over 9 months up to and including 12 months 1,332
Over 12 months up to and including 16 months 1,709
Over 16 months up to and including 20 months 1,955
Over 20 months, non-breeding bulls 2,049
Over 20 months, breeding bulls 2,629

Female

Age Compensation due (£/head)
Up to and including 3 months 319
Over 3 months up to and including 6 months 642
Over 6 months up to and including 9 months 849
Over 9 months up to and including 12 months 1,088
Over 12 months up to and including 16 months 1,487
Over 16 months up to and including 20 months (including calved) 1,710
Over 20 months, not calved 1,859
Over 20 months, calved 1,760

Dairy sector 

Male

Age Compensation due (£/head)
Up to and including 3 months 145
Over 3 months up to and including 6 months 385
Over 6 months up to and including 12 months 751
Over 12 months up to and including 16 months 1,182
Over 16 months up to and including 20 months 1,396
Over 20 months 1,630

Female

Age Compensation due (£/head
Up to and including 3 months 259
Over 3 months up to and including 6 months 483
Over 6 months up to and including 12 months 792
Over 12 months up to and including 16 months 1,091
Over 16 months up to and including 20 months 1,181
Over 20 months up to and including 84 months, calved 2,263
Over 20 months up to and including 84 months, not calved 1,606
Over 84 months 1,419

Table of pedigree bovine categories 

Beef sector 

Male

Applies to entire males (bulls) only. Steers receive non-pedigree compensation.

Age Compensation due (£/head)
Up to and including 6 months IV
Over 6 months up to and including 12 months IV
Over 12 months up to and including 24 months 7,427
Over 24 months, bulls 4,224

Female

Age Compensation due (£/head)
Up to and including 6 months IV
Over 6 months up to and including 12 months 2,145
Over 12 months up to and including 24 months 2,417
Over 24 months, not calved 2,646
Over 24 months up to and including 36 months, calved IV
Over 36 months, calved 2,554

Dairy sector 

Male

Applies to entire males (bulls) only. Steers receive non-pedigree compensation.

Age Compensation due (£/head)
Up to and including 2 months IV
Over 2 months up to and including 12 months IV
Over 12 months up to and including 24 months 5,166
Over 24 months, bulls IV

Female

Age Compensation due (£/head)
Up to and including 2 months IV
Over 2 months up to and including 10 months 1,421
Over 10 months up to and including 18 months 1,461
Over 18 months, not calved 2,028
Over 18 months up to and including 36 months, calved 2,641
Over 36 months up to and including 84 months, calved 2,487
Over 84 months, calved 1,684

IV – Compensation to be determined using individual valuation. 

Notes 

  1. The above table details the compensation payable for those animals slaughtered because they are either affected with bovine TB, BSE, Brucellosis or EBL or are suspected of having one of these diseases; or are the offspring or cohorts of confirmed BSE cases. 

  2. Compensation for bovine animals slaughtered for Bovine TB, EBL and Brucellosis is calculated in England under the Cattle Compensation (England) Order 2019 (based upon average livestock market prices for the relevant categories) and the Individual Ascertainment of Value (England) Order 2019. Compensation for bovine animals slaughtered for BSE is calculated in England under the TSE (England) Regulations 2018, in Wales under the TSE (Wales) Regulations 2018, and in Scotland under the TSE (Scotland) Regulations 2010 (as amended), which use data from the same system as England. 

  3. Table valuations are entirely objective and based on real market data. Rates for the 51 cattle categories are determined using large amounts of contemporaneous sales data for same category, but disease free, cattle. Sales data for around 1.4m cattle is collected each year to support table valuations. For non-pedigree table values one month’s sales data is used, whereas six months’ data is used to determine table values for pedigree animals to ensure that data from either of the key sales periods in spring or autumn is included in the calculation. 

  4. The values in the table of categories above have been derived from sales information obtained from store markets, prime markets, rearing calf sales, breeding sales and dispersal sales in Great Britain between 20 August 2025 and 20 September 2025 for non-pedigree animals, and between 21 March 2025 and 20 September 2025 for pedigree animals. 

  5. Each calendar year, a statistical analysis of sales data collected during a twelve-month period, is carried out to determine the minimum number of sales records required to enable Defra to have 95% confidence that the market price calculated for each category is within 20% of the population mean (all cattle sales for that category). This statistical data has helped Defra identify the level of variability in sales prices for each category. This intelligence is used to determine when there is insufficient data to support a table valuation for any particular category. 

  6. Where the Secretary of State considers that the sales data for any particular bovine category in any given month are inadequate, or such price data is unavailable, the compensation payable will either be at the level of the most recently ascertained value for the same category, or alternatively the Secretary of State may opt to pay compensation  at the level of the market value of the animal in question, as ascertained under the Individual Ascertainment of Value (England) Order 2019 or the Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (England) Regulations 2018. 

  7. Where an owner slaughters an animal voluntarily and privately (which must be agreed with the Department) no compensation is payable, i.e., the owner accepts the salvage payment from the slaughterhouse in lieu of Defra compensation. 

  8. Compensation may be reduced for TB reactor cattle disclosed in herds with overdue TB tests.