Agriculture, Energy and Environment

This theme covers statistics on food and farming, the natural environment, animal and plant health, flooding and water, fisheries, and environmental quality. Energy statistics include prices, fuel poverty and energy sources, such as coal or oil.

Current regulatory work

• Systemic review of approaches to user engagement in the Defra Group. The aims of the review are to understand and document the range of approaches to user engagement currently adopted, and to identify key features of effective and impactful user engagement.
• Series of compliance checks of household waste statistics produced by Defra, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA), the Welsh Government and the Northern Ireland Department for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA).
• Compliance check of Timber Price Indices, produced by Forest Research.
• Compliance check of Rural Scotland Key Facts statistics, produced by the Scottish Government.

You can find details of our recently published regulatory work on agriculture, energy and environment statistics below.

Contact: Job de Roij