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101 records in UK in 2023
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 5 September 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to support (a) low carbon farming and (b) agricultural innovation.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 5 September 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to (a) improve the sustainability of and (b) increase the use of regenerative farming practices.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 1 September 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to Government grants statistics 2020 to 2021, published on 31 March 2022, what assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of the Future Farming Resilience F
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 1 September 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether his Department is taking steps to ensure (a) peri-urban land and (b) high-quality rural land is protected for food growing through the planning system.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 1 September 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, pursuant to the Answer of 24 July 2023 to Question 194553 on Planning: Agriculture, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of consulting on proposals to help support
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 1 September 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reason her Department has made it compulsory for farmers to provide photographic ID when buying ammonium nitrate.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 1 September 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reason her Department has made 16 per cent the concentration level above which it is compulsory for farmers to provide photographic ID when buying ammonium nitrate.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 1 September 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what information her Department holds on the proportion of farmers that are engaged with rewilding.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 1 September 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to Government grants statistics 2020 to 2021, published on 31 March 2022, what assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of the Sustainable Land and Soils
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 25 July 2023
To ask His Majesty's Government how many seasonal agricultural workers there have been in 2023 so far through the seasonal agricultural workers scheme; and from which countries those workers originated.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 18 July 2023
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 18 July 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the agricultural investment policies of the World Bank on trends in the level of global (a) poverty and (b) food secu
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 18 July 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has made an assessment of the implications for his policies of the World Bank’s support for sustainable agricultural production in low-income countries.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 18 July 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if the Government will (a) make impact assessments on all species reintroduction proposals in England mandatory and (b) require those impact assessments to assess the potential effects
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 18 July 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of introducing a compensation scheme for farming businesses adversely impacted by species reintroductions.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 18 July 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of rewilding agricultural production on food security.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 July 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of providing continued professional development training for each farming sector.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 July 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much funding through the Basic Payment Scheme has reduced in each year since 2020; and by how much she plans to reduce payments in each of the next three years.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 July 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps he is taking to ensure that (a) peri-urban and (b) high-quality rural land used for food growing is protected within the planning system.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 14 July 2023
To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to upgrade three-phase power supply to support British farmers with the uptake of renewables.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 4 July 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her response to the Inspection of the immigration system by the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration, published in December 2022, if she will publish (a) her propos
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 29 June 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to balance the regulatory burden on the agricultural sector with the protection of environmental, welfare and food standards.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 28 June 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of using drones instead of mechanical spraying equipment on steep hillsides.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 28 June 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what his Department's policy is on the use of drones to spray bracken.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 28 June 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to regulate the use of agricultural drones.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 27 June 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to incentivise (a) the rewilding of non-productive agricultural land and (b) nature-friendly farming practices.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 27 June 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment she has made of the effect of the abolition of the Agricultural Wages Board on agricultural workers' wages.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 26 June 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department routinely undertakes assessments of the potential impacts of restrictions to water for the (a) agriculture and (b) horticulture sectors by water companies on the
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 26 June 2023
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the evidence of Alan Law, Deputy Chief Executive, Natural England, to the Built Environment Select Committee on 20 June that “there is a less onerous regulatory regime in place currently in
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 22 June 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she (a) received and (b) plans to publish the report of the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, commissioned by Natural England pursuant to the Agri-Environment Schemes Species M
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 22 June 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of requiring dogs to be on a leash when on agricultural land.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 June 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the report by the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development entitled Sowing the Seeds of Poverty:
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 19 June 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies on a fully integrated, multi-sector, catchment based approach to water systems planning of the conclusions of the repo
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 14 June 2023
To ask His Majesty's Government whether the forthcoming national land use frameworks will balance the competing demands for agriculture, development, energy, and infrastructure in a way that actively promotes the installation of solar panels on suitable b
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 12 June 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what funding his Department provides to the World Bank to support a shift to sustainable agricultural production in low-income countries.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 12 June 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the impact of World Bank (a) policies on and (b) investment in agriculture on (i) reducing poverty and (ii) increasing food securit
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 6 June 2023
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 6 June 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to protect agricultural land from development that reduces the availability of land for food production.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 25 May 2023
To ask His Majesty's Government what is their latest assessment of the effectiveness of the Prevention of Accidents to Children in Agriculture Regulations 1998.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 24 May 2023
To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to strengthen the long-term (1) resilience, and (2) sustainability, of the agricultural sector in the UK.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 22 May 2023
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the potential for using Grade 5 agricultural land for carbon capture.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 22 May 2023
To ask His Majesty's Government how many acres of agricultural land which were previously being farmed were set aside for rewilding in (1) 2018, (2) 2019, (3) 2020, (4) 2021, and (5) 2022.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 22 May 2023
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the number of acres of Grade 4 agricultural land that could be used for planting trees; and what consideration they have given to providing incentives to owners to use such land for that pu
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 22 May 2023
To ask His Majesty's Government how many acres of agricultural land which were previously being farmed were given over to solar farms in (1) 2018, (2) 2019, (3) 2020, (4) 2021, and (5) 2022.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 22 May 2023
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact on UK food security of giving over farm land to solar farms.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 19 May 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of over-grazing on (a) biodiversity and (b) flood management.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 18 May 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has had recent discussions with (a) growers and (b) growers associations on the potential merits of extending the length of the seasonal workers visa for the harvesting of
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 18 May 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made with Cabinet colleagues of the potential impact of the Seasonal Worker visa on the adequacy of the number of people available to fill seasonal farming role
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 May 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department has made an assessment of how the cost of any difference in the usage of utilities by workers in the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Scheme can be (a) accounted fo
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 May 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) arrests and (b) prosecutions for theft of agricultural machinery there have been in each year since 2020.