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101 records in UK in 2016
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 19 October 2016
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans he has for the funding of agri-environment projects in receipt of EU funding signed after the Autumn Statement.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 18 October 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many farmers had still not received the money they are due from the Rural Payments Agency under the 2015 Basic Payment Scheme by the end of 14 October 2016 in (a) England, (b) Cumb
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 13 October 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department plans to respond formally to the Soil Association's Save Our Anti-Biotic campaign.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 12 October 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment the Government has made of the public health danger posed by the use of antibiotics for agricultural purposes.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 12 October 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what proportion of applications to the Farming Recovery Fund have been paid to farmers affected by flooding since December 2015.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 10 October 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the implications of the outcome of the EU referendum for future employment levels in the agricultural sector.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 10 October 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps the Government has taken with the food, farming and agri-tech industries to treble the number of apprenticeships in those sectors.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 10 October 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if her Department will commission research into the economic, social and environmental contributions of small farms in England to inform policy and funding of this sector once the UK l
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 10 October 2016
To ask Her Majesty’s Government which department will lead the Brexit negotiations on food and farming, including negotiations about the UK's future relationship with the EU.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 10 October 2016
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what process they propose for deciding which EU legal instruments on food and farming are maintained, amended or repealed after the UK leaves the EU.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 10 October 2016
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their forecast timetable for negotiations on the UK’s future relationship with the EU as regards food and farming.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 7 October 2016
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the effect leaving the EU will have on the level of Welsh farming subsidies.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 7 October 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what funding she plans to make available to replace payments made under the Common Agricultural Policy.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 7 October 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans she has to consult stakeholders in the development of proposals for a post-Common Agricultural Policy system of farm support.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 September 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that farmers continue to have access to sufficient seasonal labourers after the UK leaves the EU.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 September 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what representations she has made to the (a) Soil Association, (b) Rivers Trust and (c) RSPCA on running eco-friendly accreditation schemes for farmers.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 14 September 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she plans to publish the 25 year plan for food and farming.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 September 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of proposals to make funding to farmers after the UK has left the EU dependent on implementing measures against flooding.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 September 2016
To ask Her Majesty’s Government when they will pay the outstanding payments to farmers affected by storms Eva and Desmond last December.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 7 September 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans she has to recruit additional staff to meet the additional workload arising from preparations to leave the EU and the development of new arrangements for a system of post-Co
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 6 September 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what her policy is on the devolution of the policy and administration of agricultural subsidies to the devolved administrations once the UK exits the Common Agricultural Policy.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 5 September 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps the Government is planning to take to assist farmers in the (a) North West and (b) Ribble Valley constituency with transitional funding after the UK leaves the EU.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 5 September 2016
To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they plan to continue to include the current requirements for cross compliance within continuing farm payments up to 2020 following the UK leaving the EU including (1) the protection of watercourses and groundwater,
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 July 2016
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the reply by Lord Gardiner of Kimble on 20 July (HL Deb, col 640), whether the UK is going to be fined by the EU as a result of making late payments under the Single Farm Payment Scheme.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 20 July 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the Government plans to devolve agricultural subsidies to the devolved administrations once Britain exits the Common Agricultural Policy.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 18 July 2016
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if she will take steps to ensure that women in the agricultural sector receive equal pay to men.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 18 July 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make it her policy that payments delivered through the Common Agricultural Policy will in future be delivered at the same level by the Government in the event of the UK lea
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 14 July 2016
My Noble friend, the Lords Spokesman for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Lord Gardiner), represented the UK at the Agriculture and Fisheries Council on 27-28 June in Luxembourg.Commissioner Hogan made a short presentation with an o...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 14 July 2016
My Right Hon Friend the Secretary of State (Elizabeth Truss) has today made the following statement.My Noble friend, the Lords Spokesman for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Lord Gardiner), represented the UK at the Agriculture and ...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 12 July 2016
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answers by Lord Gardiner of Kimble on 17 June (HL446) and 27 June (HL808), whether when providing those answers they were aware that the payment window had already been extended to October, and if so
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 12 July 2016
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Gardiner of Kimble on 1 October 2015 (HL2378), in the light of the fact that a substantial number of Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) payments have not yet been made and that no date for com
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 11 July 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress her Department has made on supporting access to mobile digital technology for farmers.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 11 July 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what her policy is on compensation for farmers of the loss of CAP payments after the UK has withdrawn from the EU.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 11 July 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the effect of the outcome of the EU referendum on future levels of migrant labour from other EU countries in the farming industry.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 11 July 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department has taken to support agriculture in South Wales since May 2015.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 7 July 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential effect of future tariffs on trade with EU countries on the food and farming industry.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 7 July 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department has amended its draft of the 25 year plan on food and farming as a result of the outcome of the EU referendum.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 7 July 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress she has made on publishing the Food and Farming Plan.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 7 July 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential effect of the UK leaving the EU on the amount of regulation on farming.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 7 July 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how her Department plans to encourage more farmers to submit their Basic Payment Scheme payments applications online.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 7 July 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of imposing fines on the Rural Payments Agency for late Basic Payment Scheme payments to farmers.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 7 July 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions she has had with the Rural Payments Agency to resolve the backlog of 2015 Basic Payment Scheme payments.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 6 July 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she plans to publish her Department's 25 year plan on food and farming.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 5 July 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what her policy is on making all outstanding back payments to commoners entitled to payments under the Single Farm Payment Scheme; and if she will make a statement.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 5 July 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the potential effect of the UK leaving EU on financial support for the farming industry.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 4 July 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential effect of the UK leaving the EU on subsidies to farmers.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 4 July 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the effect of the abolition of the Agricultural Wages Board in 2013 on the proportion of migrants working in the agricultural sector; and if she will make a state
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 4 July 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the main reasons for delays in basic farm payments were in the most recent year for which information is available; and if she will make a statement.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 4 July 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she plans to take to encourage more women to work in the food and farming industries.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 1 July 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the effect of the UK leaving the EU on rural payments.