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Environment statistics

• air quality and emissions statistics
• biodiversity and wildlife statistics
• business and enterprise and the environment statistics
• environment key facts publication
• environmental protection expenditure survey
• natural environment statistics
• waste and recycling statistics
• water quality and abstraction statistics

Food statistics

• family food statistics
• food chain analysis
• food statistics pocketbook
• food transport indicators
• overseas trade
• sustainable food system indicators

Rural statistics

• rural economy
• rural focus reports
• living in rural areas
• rural maps
• statistical digest of geographies
• statistical digest of rural England

Farming statistics

• agriculture in the United Kingdom
• monthly farming and food brief

Farm management statistics

• aggregate agricultural accounts
• farm business survey
• productivity of the agricultural industry

Commodities and farm-gate prices

• agricultural price indices
• animal feed production
• cattle, sheep and pig slaughter
• cereal usage and stocks
• commodity prices
• egg production and prices
• fruit and vegetable wholesale prices
• milk utilisation by dairies
• milk prices and composition
• poultry and poultry meat statistics

Land management and environmental issues

• agricultural statistics and climate change
• agri-environment indicators
• agri-environment analysis
• farm practices survey
• fertiliser usage
• land under environmental management

Land use and livestock

• animal on-farm welfare inspections
• bovine TB
• horticultural statistics
• non-food crops
• orchard fruit
• organic farming
• structure of the agricultural industry

Fisheries statistics

Statistics on the UK fishing industry and its operations, along with international comparisons, stock assessments and information on fish imports and exports, are available on the Marine Management Organisation’s sea fisheries statistics website.

Forthcoming publications

Planned publication dates of our national and official statistical releases can be found on the UK National Statistics publication hub.

Archived statistics

GOV.UK offers the most recent statistics Defra has published. Our previous statistical releases are available on the National Archives.

Corporate procedures and standards

We produce statistics in accordance with the statutory and other arrangements described in the guide to national and official statistics. Details on how we do this are set out in the publications below.

• Code of practice - compliance statement [PDF, 169KB, 13 pages]
• Statement of revisions and errors [PDF, 76KB, 3 pages]
• Pre-release access compliance [PDF, 132KB, 7 pages]
• List of statistics with pre-release access [PDF, 139KB, 4 pages]
• Statement of administrative sources [PDF, 228KB, 17 pages]
• Breaches of code of practice [PDF, 106KB, 1 page]
• Summary of survey activity (statistical surveys to businesses and local authorities) 2011 to 2012 [PDF, 167KB, 5 pages]
• User feedback 2012 [PDF, 15.5KB, 2 pages]

Contact us

General enquiries

Defra helpline: 08459 33 55 77 (open Mon to Fri: 8am - 6pm)

Environment statistics	enviro.statistics@defra.gsi.gov.uk
Farming statistics	farming-statistics@defra.gsi.gov.uk
Food statistics	familyfood@defra.gsi.gov.uk
Rural statistics	rural.statistics@defra.gsi.gov.uk
Procedures and standards	StatisticsPolicy@defra.gsi.gov.uk
Survey control	surveycontrol@defra.gsi.gov.uk