Statutory guidance: Gamebirds: licence to release common pheasants or red-legged partridges on special areas of conservation or within 500m of their boundary (GL43)

Owners or occupiers of land, or people authorised by them, can use this general licence to release common pheasants or red-legged partridges on special areas of conservation and within their 500m buffer zones.




Guidance: Bird flu: rules on meat produced from poultry and farmed game birds originating in disease control zones

Rules food businesses should follow for any meat produced from poultry or farmed game birds originating within a disease control zone.




Guidance: Natural mineral waters: lists of recognised products

Lists of all natural mineral waters recognised in the UK, and English, Scottish and Welsh waters recognised by the EU, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein (EEA).




Transparency data: Defra: workforce management information September 2025

Reports on departmental staff numbers and costs.




Accredited official statistics: Latest poultry and poultry meat statistics

Monthly statistics on the activity of UK hatcheries and UK poultry slaughterhouses.