Policy papers and consultations

The Pathway will push forward and support the gradual and continual improvement in farm animal health and welfare.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 24 April 2024

• Animal Health and Welfare Pathway

  The Animal Health and Welfare Pathway (the Pathway) was launched in 2023.…

Consultation on proposals to evolve badger control policy and support responsible cattle movements and purchasing. This is part of the Bovine TB Eradication Strategy.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 22 April 2024

Seeking views on proposals to make it compulsory for bird keepers in Great Britain to register their birds.

• From: Animal and Plant Health Agency and 1 others
• Updated: 15 April 2024

The UK Chief Veterinary Officer’s advice on early termination intensive cull licences issued in 2021 and 2022 after 2 or 3 years.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 11 April 2024

Information and data on operations to control bovine tuberculosis in parts of England in 2023.

• From: Natural England
• Updated: 11 April 2024

Information and data on operations to control bovine tuberculosis in parts of England in 2023.

• From: Natural England
• Updated: 11 April 2024

What Defra and the Welsh Government are doing to reduce the risks from avian influenza (bird flu) in wild birds.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 18 March 2024

Find out how to comment on badger control in Derbyshire, Gloucestershire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Shropshire, Somerset, and Warwickshire.

• From: Natural England
• Updated: 19 February 2024

Seeking views on changes to the law on veterinary medicines.

• From: Veterinary Medicines Directorate
• Updated: 2 February 2024

We’re asking for evidence to help us understand more about giving feed products to livestock that can reduce methane emissions.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 26 October 2023

Information on the government badger control costs for 2022 and previous years.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 7 September 2023

Advice to Natural England on setting the minimum and maximum numbers of badgers to be culled in licensed areas in 2023.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 7 September 2023

This contingency plan describes how the government will manage an outbreak or incident of exotic notifiable disease of animals in England.

• From: Animal and Plant Health Agency and 1 others
• Updated: 17 July 2023

Find out how to comment on badger control in Hampshire, Avon, Herefordshire, and Wiltshire.

• From: Natural England
• Updated: 7 June 2023

Seeking views on supply chain relations in the UK pig sector.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 6 April 2023

Find out how to comment on badger control in Buckinghamshire, Cornwall, Devon, Cheshire, Derbyshire and Northamptonshire.

• From: Natural England
• Updated: 28 October 2022

Advice to Natural England on setting the minimum and maximum numbers of badgers to be culled in licensed areas during 2022.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 28 October 2022

Find out how to comment on badger control in Somerset and Dorset.

• From: Natural England
• Updated: 28 October 2022

Gofyn barn ar berthnasau’r gadwyn gyflenwi yn sector moch y DU.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 15 July 2022

Find out how to comment on badger control in Cheshire, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Shropshire, Somerset and Staffordshire.

• From: Natural England
• Updated: 25 May 2022