The Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said:

The UK is watching events in Iran closely. We believe that there should be meaningful debate about the legitimate and important issues the protesters are raising...

There has been a massive public response to the Government’s proposed ban on ivory sales – with over 60,000 responses to the public consultation, making it one of Defra’s most popular ever. Of the responses analysed...

Updated: Replaced licence with new version issued 1 January 2018

As a veterinary surgeon or practitioner you can use this general licence for these wild birds:

honey buzzards golden eagles ...

Updated: Replaced licence with new version issued 1 January 2018

If you’re a land owner, occupier or other authorised person you can use this general licence to carry out a range of otherwise prohibited...

Updated: Replaced licence with new version issued 1 January 2018

If you’re a land owner, occupier or other authorised person you can use this general licence to carry out a range of otherwise prohibited...

Updated: Replaced licence with new version issued 1 January 2018

You need a licence to temporarily possess and transport any species of dead bat that you send for testing under the passive surveillance...

Updated: Replaced licence with new version issued 1 January 2018

As an authorised person, you need a licence to capture, possess or transport live bats for the purpose of testing for European bat lyssavirus...

Updated: Replaced licence with new version issued 1 January 2018

This licence applies to the animals listed in annex IV of the EC Habitats Directive. It applies only to specimens taken from the ...

Updated: Replaced licence with new version issued 1 January 2018

You can sell dead specimens of certain protected species with this licence, as long as they were legally taken from the wild before 30 October...

Updated: Replaced licence with new version issued 1 January 2018

This licence allows you to catch, move and release otters trapped inside fishery fencing as soon as possible to stop them causing serious...

Updated: Replaced licence with new version issued 1 January 2018

You can register to release non-native bumblebee colonies in commercial glasshouses if you own or manage a horticultural business or a research...

Updated: Replaced licence with new version issued 1 January 2018

If you own, manage or assist in a commercial horticultural business or research establishment, you can register to release non-native bumblebee...

Updated: Replaced licence with new version issued 1 January 2018

This licence applies to the plants and animals listed in annex II(b) and IV of the EC Habitats Directive. It allows museums, research...

Updated: Replaced licence with new version issued 1 January 2018

You now need a licence to intentionally disturb water voles by ‘displacement’.

This licence is for employees of internal drainage...

Updated: Replaced licence with new version issued 1 January 2018

This licence applies to police forces in England only.

One employee of each police force (normally the wildlife crime officer) ...

Updated: Replaced licence with new version issued 1 January 2018

This licence allows you to survey great crested newts using:

hand nets torches aquatic funnel traps (including bottle traps...

Updated: Replaced licence with new version issued 1 January 2018

This licence allows you to survey great crested newts using:

pitfall traps - you must notify Natural England before using these ...

Updated: Replaced licence with new version issued 1 January 2018

This licence allows you to disturb nesting barn owls by observation when carrying out surveys to provide information for development proposals...

Updated: Replaced licence with new version issued 1 January 2018

This licence lets you catch wild birds that have become trapped on your premises if you’re the owner or manager of food premises.

<...

Updated: Replaced licence with new version issued 1 January 2018

This licence lets you catch alive or kill wild birds on or around your aerodrome for air safety purposes.

You can only get this ...

Updated: Replaced licence with new version issued 1 January 2018

This licence allows landowners and their representatives to establish and maintain feeding stations near to hen harrier nests, for the purpose...

Updated: Replaced licence, management protocol and registration form with new versions issued 1 January 2018

This licence allows you to maintain drainage ditches and other water bodies inhabited by little...

Updated: Replaced licence with new version issued 1 January 2018

This licence allows you to catch and relocate white-clawed crayfish (also called Atlantic stream crayfish) between 1 July and 30 September...

Updated: Replaced licence with new version issued 1 January 2018

This licence allows you to survey white-clawed crayfish (also called Atlantic stream crayfish) by:

hand hand net dropped net...

Updated: Replaced licence with new version issued 1 January 2018

This licence can only be used by employees or contractors of the internal drainage boards.

This licence allows you to interfere ...

Updated: Replaced licence with new version issued 1 January 2018

Only employees or approved contractors of the Forestry Commission can use this class licence.

If you’re not working for the Forestry...

Updated: Replaced licence with new version issued 1 January 2018.

This licence allows Natural England registered volunteer bat roost visitors (or trainees registered with Natural England accompanying them...

Updated: Replaced licence with new version issued 1 January 2018.

This licence allows Natural England registered volunteer bat roost visitors (or trainees registered with Natural England accompanying them...

Updated: Replaced licence with new version issued 1 January 2018

This licence allows you to disturb bats (but not hibernating bats) using torches.

To carry out other survey techniques you need a...

Updated: Replaced licence with new version issued 1 January 2018

This licence allows you to disturb or capture bats by hand or by using:

torches endoscopes static hand-held nets

You can...

Updated: Replaced licence with new version issued 1 January 2018.

This licence allows you to disturb or capture bats using:

torches endoscopes hand nets static hand-held nets mist nets for...

Updated: Replaced licence with new version issued 1 January 2018

This licence allows you to disturb or capture bats using:

torches endoscopes hand nets static hand-held nets acoustic lures...

Updated: Replaced licence with new version issued 1 January 2018

This licence allows you to trap edible dormice (also known as fat dormice) to preserve public health and safety and to prevent serious damage...

Updated: Replaced licence with new version issued 1 January 2018

This licence allows you to survey hazel dormice by hand, including handling them in:

nests nest tubes nest boxes

You must...

Updated: Replaced licence with new version issued 1 January 2018

This licence allows you to temporarily mark dormice by fur-clipping and to handle dormice in:

nests nest tubes nest boxes <...

Updated: Replaced licence with new version issued 1 January 2018. New monitoring form added.

You need a licence to displace water voles to allow development.

This licence allows you to intentionally...

Updated: Revised due to the ongoing roll out of Universal Credit full service, this means live service areas stopped taking new claims from 1 January 2018.

This guide explains:

Universal Credit ...

Updated: PDF updated. For more information about the amendments made, see page 2 of the PDF.

The medical standards of fitness to drive for medical professionals. This guidance is available as HTML

Updated: The recognised overseas pension schemes notification list has been updated with 11 schemes added and 1 removed.

This list contains pension schemes that have told HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) that...

Updated: Information about disclosure of tax avoidance schemes for VAT and other indirect taxes ‘DASVOIT’, which came into force on 1 January 2018 has been added to this notice.

This notice cancels and ...

Two individuals named on 2018’s New Year’s Honours List have been recognised for their work at the Department for International Development.

Dr Phil Evans has been made a Commander of the Order of the...

Updated: Replaced licence with new version issued 1 January 2018

This licence lets you hold biological samples (including blood, DNA and other tissue) from birds and wild animals taken as part of an investigation...

Updated: Replaced licence with new version issued 1 January 2018

As a veterinary surgeon or practitioner you can use this general licence for these wild birds:

honey buzzards golden eagles ...

Updated: Replaced licence with new version issued 1 January 2018

As an authorised person, this general licence lets you keep these birds for up to 15 days without registering:

honey buzzards ...

Updated: Replaced licence with new version issued 1 January 2018

If you’re a land owner, occupier or other authorised person you can use this general licence to carry out a range of otherwise prohibited...

Updated: Replaced licence with new version issued 1 January 2018

If you’re a land owner, occupier or other authorised person you can use this general licence to carry out a range of otherwise prohibited...

Updated: Replaced licence with new version issued 1 January 2018

You need a licence to temporarily possess and transport any species of dead bat that you send for testing under the passive surveillance...

Updated: Replaced licence with new version issued 1 January 2018

As an authorised person, you need a licence to capture, possess or transport live bats for the purpose of testing for European bat lyssavirus...

Updated: Replaced licence with new version issued 1 January 2018

This licence applies to the animals listed in annex IV of the EC Habitats Directive. It applies only to specimens taken from the ...

Updated: Replaced licence with new version issued 1 January 2018

You can sell dead specimens of certain protected species with this licence, as long as they were legally taken from the wild before 30 October...

Updated: Replaced licence with new version issued 1 January 2018

This licence allows you to catch, move and release otters trapped inside fishery fencing as soon as possible to stop them causing serious...

Updated: Replaced licence with new version issued 1 January 2018

You can register to release non-native bumblebee colonies in commercial glasshouses if you own or manage a horticultural business or a research...

Updated: Replaced licence with new version issued 1 January 2018

If you own, manage or assist in a commercial horticultural business or research establishment, you can register to release non-native bumblebee...

Updated: Replaced licence with new version issued 1 January 2018

This licence applies to the plants and animals listed in annex II(b) and IV of the EC Habitats Directive. It allows museums, research...

Updated: Replaced licence with new version issued 1 January 2018

You now need a licence to intentionally disturb water voles by ‘displacement’.

This licence is for employees of internal drainage...

Updated: Replaced licence with new version issued 1 January 2018

This licence applies to police forces in England only.

One employee of each police force (normally the wildlife crime officer) ...

Complete this form if you:

have used a disguised remuneration tax avoidance scheme which the 2019 loan charge will apply to want to make an application to postpone your loan charge until a later date...

Updated: Replaced licence with new version issued 1 January 2018

This licence allows you to survey great crested newts using:

hand nets torches aquatic funnel traps (including bottle traps...

Updated: Replaced licence with new version issued 1 January 2018

This licence allows you to survey great crested newts using:

pitfall traps - you must notify Natural England before using these ...

Updated: Replaced licence with new version issued 1 January 2018

This licence allows you to disturb nesting barn owls by observation when carrying out surveys to provide information for development proposals...

Updated: Replaced licence with new version issued 1 January 2018

This licence lets you catch wild birds that have become trapped on your premises if you’re the owner or manager of food premises.

<...

Updated: Replaced licence with new version issued 1 January 2018

This licence lets you catch alive or kill wild birds on or around your aerodrome for air safety purposes.

You can only get this ...

Updated: Replaced licence with new version issued 1 January 2018

This licence allows landowners and their representatives to establish and maintain feeding stations near to hen harrier nests, for the purpose...

Updated: Replaced licence, management protocol and registration form with new versions issued 1 January 2018

This licence allows you to maintain drainage ditches and other water bodies inhabited by little...

Updated: Replaced licence with new version issued 1 January 2018

This licence allows you to catch and relocate white-clawed crayfish (also called Atlantic stream crayfish) between 1 July and 30 September...

Updated: Replaced licence with new version issued 1 January 2018

This licence allows you to survey white-clawed crayfish (also called Atlantic stream crayfish) by:

hand hand net dropped net...

Updated: Replaced licence with new version issued 1 January 2018

This licence can only be used by employees or contractors of the internal drainage boards.

This licence allows you to interfere ...

Updated: Replaced licence with new version issued 1 January 2018

Only employees or approved contractors of the Forestry Commission can use this class licence.

If you’re not working for the Forestry...

Updated: Replaced licence with new version issued 1 January 2018.

This licence allows Natural England registered volunteer bat roost visitors (or trainees registered with Natural England accompanying them...

Updated: Replaced licence with new version issued 1 January 2018.

This licence allows Natural England registered volunteer bat roost visitors (or trainees registered with Natural England accompanying them...

Updated: Replaced licence with new version issued 1 January 2018

This licence allows you to disturb bats (but not hibernating bats) using torches.

To carry out other survey techniques you need a...

Updated: Replaced licence with new version issued 1 January 2018

This licence allows you to disturb or capture bats by hand or by using:

torches endoscopes static hand-held nets

You can...

Updated: Replaced licence with new version issued 1 January 2018.

This licence allows you to disturb or capture bats using:

torches endoscopes hand nets static hand-held nets mist nets for...

Updated: Replaced licence with new version issued 1 January 2018

This licence allows you to disturb or capture bats using:

torches endoscopes hand nets static hand-held nets acoustic lures...

Updated: Replaced licence with new version issued 1 January 2018

This licence allows you to trap edible dormice (also known as fat dormice) to preserve public health and safety and to prevent serious damage...

Updated: Replaced licence with new version issued 1 January 2018

This licence allows you to survey hazel dormice by hand, including handling them in:

nests nest tubes nest boxes

You must...

Updated: Replaced licence with new version issued 1 January 2018

This licence allows you to temporarily mark dormice by fur-clipping and to handle dormice in:

nests nest tubes nest boxes <...

Updated: Replaced licence with new version issued 1 January 2018. New monitoring form added.

You need a licence to displace water voles to allow development.

This licence allows you to intentionally...

Updated: Revised due to ongoing roll out of Universal Credit full service, this means live service areas stopped taking new claims from 1 January 2018.

If a tenant is having difficulty paying their rent...

Updated: Revised due to the ongoing roll out of Universal Credit full service, this means live service areas stopped taking new claims from 1 January 2018.

This guide explains:

Universal Credit ...

Updated: PDF updated. For more information about the amendments made, see page 2 of the PDF.

The medical standards of fitness to drive for medical professionals. This guidance is available as HTML

Updated: A new fee structure for PCT applications is in effect from today 1 January 2018.

The Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) fee structure changed on 1 January 2018 and are as follows:

Transmittal...

The Office for Students (OfS), the new regulator designed to champion the interests of students, promote choice and help to ensure that students are receiving a good deal for their investment in higher education...