Research and statistics

Quarterly and annual reports about the disease surveillance of non-statutory zoonoses and infections shared between humans and animals.

• Document type: Research
• Part of a collection: APHA animal disease surveillance reports
• Organisation: Animal and Plant Health Agency
• Updated: 14 March 2024

This UK VARSS report provides the details of UK veterinary antibiotic resistance and sales surveillance.

• Document type: Research
• Part of a collection: Veterinary Antimicrobial Resistance and Sales Surveillance
• Organisation: Veterinary Medicines Directorate
• Updated: 13 March 2024

Animal Welfare Committee advice on emergency culling for the depopulation of poultry affected by high pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) - consideration of ventilation shutdown (VSD)

• Document type: Independent report
• Part of a collection: AWC advice to government
• Organisation: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 12 March 2024

Animal Welfare Committee opinion on alternatives to culling newly hatched chicks in the egg and poultry industries.

• Document type: Independent report
• Part of a collection: AWC advice to government
• Organisation: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 12 March 2024

Animal Welfare Committee update on the opinion on the welfare of farmed fish at the time of killing.

• Document type: Independent report
• Organisation: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 12 March 2024

Animal Welfare Committee opinion on the implications of castration and tail docking for the welfare of lambs.

• Document type: Independent report
• Part of a collection: AWC advice to government
• Organisation: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 12 March 2024

Reporting against VMD published standards up to 31 March 2024.

• Document type: Official Statistics
• Organisation: Veterinary Medicines Directorate
• Updated: 7 March 2024

Animal Sentience Committee’s views on whether the government has all due regard to the welfare of animals as sentient beings in relation to the Veterinary Medicines Regulation (2013) revisions.

• Document type: Independent report
• Organisation: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 1 March 2024

Preliminary outbreak assessments for Aujeszky’s disease in Europe.

• Document type: Research
• Part of a collection: Animal diseases: international and UK monitoring
• Organisation: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 27 February 2024

Animal Welfare Committee opinion on the welfare implications of different methods and systems for the catching, carrying, collecting and loading of poultry.

• Document type: Independent report
• Part of a collection: AWC advice to government
• Organisation: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 22 February 2024

Animal Sentience Committee’s views on the Animals (Low Welfare Activities Abroad) Act.

• Document type: Independent report
• Organisation: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 19 February 2024

Animal Sentience Committee’s views on whether the government has all due regard to the welfare of animals as sentient beings.

• Document type: Independent report
• Organisation: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 9 February 2024

Annual figures on local sites in positive conservation management in England.

• Document type: Statistical data set
• Part of a collection: Biodiversity and wildlife statistics
• Organisation: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 6 February 2024

An annual publication on local sites across England in positive conservation.

• Document type: Official Statistics
• Part of a collection: Biodiversity and wildlife statistics
• Organisation: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 6 February 2024

Quarterly reports about new and emerging diseases in pigs.

• Document type: Research
• Part of a collection: APHA animal disease surveillance reports
• Organisation: Animal and Plant Health Agency
• Updated: 5 February 2024

Trends in butterflies: habitat specialists and species of the wider countryside in the UK.

• Document type: Official Statistics
• Part of a collection: Biodiversity and wildlife statistics
• Organisation: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 2 February 2024

Trends in butterflies in England: species of the wider countryside on farmland and in woodland.

• Document type: Official Statistics
• Part of a collection: Biodiversity and wildlife statistics
• Organisation: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 2 February 2024

Updated outbreak assessment for African swine fever in wild boar and domestic pigs in Eastern Europe, Belgium and Sweden.

• Document type: Research
• Part of a collection: Animal diseases: international and UK monitoring
• Organisation: Animal and Plant Health Agency and 1 others
• Updated: 30 January 2024

Veterinary risk assessment on the importation of ovine and caprine unpasteurised milk and dairy products from Spain to Great Britain during a sheep pox and goat pox outbreak.

• Document type: Research
• Organisation: Animal and Plant Health Agency and 1 others
• Updated: 26 January 2024

Quarterly reports about new and emerging diseases in cattle.

• Document type: Research
• Part of a collection: APHA animal disease surveillance reports
• Organisation: Animal and Plant Health Agency
• Updated: 4 January 2024