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Updates for 2024-25

Chapter 9

A major update to Chapter 9 – Appraisal of Flood Risk Managament for Agriculture has been undertaken:

• Revisions to the text on policy and updating of tables to 2024 values;
• The production of supporting read off tables consistent with other sectoral treatment of asset depth /damage estimation (and production losses);
• Asset damage and production losses for flooding on agricultural land (£/ha) by:
  • Land use type/farm type;
  • ALC grade;
  • Drainage classes (groundwater);
  • Seasonal distribution of flood impact;
  • Salinity;
  • Duration/depth;
• Update to the data used to estimate the contents of Table 9.5 (Estimated Financial and Economic Gross Margins and Net Margins for wheat and selected farm types in England), based on Defra 5-year time series results from the annual farm business management surveys, GDP adjusted. These estimates feed into the data provided in Tables 9.7 and 9.8 within the Chapter.

Chapter 5

Table 5.4 (Business floor space: rateable value per m² of floor space) has been amended to reflect the new latest published data as the previous dataset found here https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/business-floorspace-rateable-value-per-square-metre-summary-by-region-and-sector has been removed from publication.