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45 records in UK in 2014
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 December 2014
The next Agriculture and Fisheries Council will be on 15 and 16 December in Brussels. My hon. friend, the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (George Eustice), will represent the UK. Richard Lochhead MSP and Mich...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 December 2014
My Right Hon Friend the Secretary of State (Elizabeth Truss) has today made the following statement.The next Agriculture and Fisheries Council will be on 15 and 16 December in Brussels. My hon. friend, the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Enviro...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 11 December 2014
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the likely annual reduction in CAP subsidies to farmers arising from the change to disallow grazing under a solar farm.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 10 December 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment she has made of the value for money of payments to farmers under the Common Agricultural Policy.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 25 November 2014
My Noble Friend, the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Lord de Mauley), represented the UK at the EU Agriculture and Fisheries Council on 10 November in Brussels. Richard Lochhead MSP was also present.Fisherie...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 25 November 2014
My Right Hon Friend the Secretary of State (Elizabeth Truss) has today made the following statement.My Noble Friend, the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Lord de Mauley), represented the UK at the EU Agricult...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 20 November 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much of the Farming Recovery Fund to cover the cost of restoration of agricultural land following the winter floods has been received by farmers and businesses to date.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 11 November 2014
To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether the Scottish Fisheries Minister, Richard Lochhead MSP, was invited to attend the European Council on Fishing on 10 November; and if not, why not.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 4 November 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when the replacement of the Rural Development Programme for England's Farming and Forestry Improvement Scheme will be announced; and when funding applications will be invited.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 4 November 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much farmers in each local authority area in Wales have received in Common Agricultural Payments in each year for which data is available.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 3 November 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she next plans to meet farming organisations in Wales.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 30 October 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she next plans to meet farming organisations in Northern Ireland.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 30 October 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much in Single Farm Payment was paid to farm businesses in each county of Northern Ireland in the last year for which data is available.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 29 October 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to her Department's press release of 19 October 2014 entitled Subsidies for solar farms to be cut to help safeguard farmland, whether her Department holds evidence that
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 27 October 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress she is making in reducing the burden of regulation on farmers.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 24 October 2014
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what are the latest figures they have of the number of fatal and serious accidents occurring in the farming industry.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 14 October 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate she has made of the financial return from her Department's investment in agricultural research and development since 2010.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 14 October 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department has taken to reduce carbon dioxide release from agricultural practices while maintaining and increasing crop yields.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 26 September 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much (a) her Department, (b) the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council and (c) other public bodies spent on each category of agricultural research in each of the l
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 12 September 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will make it his policy to establish an agricultural technology catapult centre.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 12 September 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much her Department spent on agricultural research in each year from 1997-98 to 2009-10.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 12 September 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much funding from the (a) research councils and (b) Technology Strategy Board was allocated to agricultural research in the financial years 2005-06 to 2013-14.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 5 September 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will discuss with her counterparts in the devolved administrations the need for discussions with the European Commission on the development of a relief package for farmers and t
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 5 September 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many of the Macdonald Review's recommendations for regulation reduction have been implemented to date.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 1 September 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps the UK is taking to monitor the effect of the UK food industry on greenhouse gas emissions.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 29 August 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many farms in Cumbria which received payments under the (a) Hill Livestock Compensatory Allowance, (b) Sheep Annual Premium Scheme, (c) Hill Farm Allowance and (d) Uplands Entry Le
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 July 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to restrict the use of antibiotics on farms to the treatment of sick animals.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 July 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to encourage investment in agricultural technologies to increase the efficiency of food production.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 July 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many businesses in England were registered as agricultural businesses in each of the last five years.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 7 July 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to encourage farmers to extend the seasonal production of fresh fruit and vegetables.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 7 July 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his officials consulted their counterparts in the Northern Ireland Executive in preparation for the EU Agriculture and Fisheries Council on 16 and 17 June 2014.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 30 June 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what alternative proposals on the capping of payments to farmers in England were considered beyond the five per cent reduction for basic payments above £150,000.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 30 June 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will estimate the effect on farmers in England of capping direct payments to farmers and initiating a 15 per cent reduction on payments over £150,000 and a complete cap at paymen
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 24 June 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what appeals process is available for farmers who are subject to deductions from single farm payments for (a) cattle passport contraventions and (b) breaches of the conditions of the R
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 June 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much his Department spent on business support to farmers, excluding Common Agricultural Policy payments, in each financial year from 2010-11 to 2013-14.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 June 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the effect on UK food production of the recent flooding in Somerset; and if he will make a statement.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 June 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans he has to reduce regulation in the agricultural industry; and if he will make a statement.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 June 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much his Department spent on agricultural research in each financial year since 2010-11.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 June 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much his Department spent on business support to farmers, excluding Common Agricultural Policy payments in each financial year since 2010-11.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 June 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much his Department spent on agricultural research in each financial year since 2010-11.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 June 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what progress he is making in increasing exports of UK agricultural technologies; and if he will make a statement.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 June 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent discussions she has had with Kellogg's about its working relationships with small-scale farmers.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 June 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent discussions she has had with (a) UK-based companies and (b) companies selling products in the UK about the effect of their sourcing practices on small-scale farmers in developing cou
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 June 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will request UK-based companies to make publicly available impact studies on how their sourcing practices affect small-scale farmers in developing countries.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 June 2014
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Newby on 6 May (WA 314), what is their estimate of the average additional weekly cost of food to United Kingdom families arising from membership of the Common Agricultural Policy.