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51 records in UK in 2019
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 20 December 2019
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what discussions he has had with (a) the Secretary State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and (b) the Northern Ireland Administration on the provision of financial support to Northern Ireland's fa
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 19 December 2019
To ask Her Majesty's Government when the Agriculture Bill will be introduced to Parliament.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 19 December 2019
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will review the seasonal agricultural workers scheme before the 2020 harvest; and if she will ensure that the parameters of any limit on the number of migrant workers employed under that scheme
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 19 December 2019
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will extend the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Scheme to allow the recruitment of seasonal labour for work in the non-edible horticulture sector.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 31 October 2019
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment her Department has made of the potential effect of the Withdrawal Agreement, published on 19 October 2019 on the farming industry.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 31 October 2019
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the remarks by Lord Morris of Aberavon on 17 October (HL Deb, col 198), when they will be in a position to reply to the issues raised about agricultural support after Brexit, particularly in relation to Wales.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 29 October 2019
Katrina Williams, Deputy Permanent Representative to the European Union, represented the UK at Agriculture and Fisheries Council in Luxembourg on 14-15 October. The main item on fisheries policy was fixing the 2020 fishing opportunities in the Baltic Sea....
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 29 October 2019
My Hon Friend the Minister of State for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (George Eustice) has today made the following statement: Katrina Williams, Deputy Permanent Representative to the European Union, represented the UK at Agriculture and Fisheries Counc...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 24 October 2019
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps will she take to ensure farmers are supported in the event of the UK leaving the EU without a deal.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 October 2019
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 22 October 2019 to Question 1779 on Agriculture: Seasonal Workers, whether her Department plans to publish data from the seasonal workers pilot scheme prior t
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 October 2019
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 22 October 2019 to Question 1779 on Agriculture: Seasonal Workers, whether her Department plans to publish data from the seasonal workers pilot scheme prior to the conclusion
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 October 2019
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many inspections the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority has undertaken on farms employing workers under the seasonal workers pilot scheme.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 22 October 2019
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what financial support the Government will provide to farmers in Northern Ireland in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 22 October 2019
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether it is his policy that payments to farmers in Northern Ireland will be comparable to Common Agricultural Policy payments after 2022.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 22 October 2019
To ask Her Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the amount of unpicked fruit on UK farms due to a lack of labour; and what plans they have to ensure that there is enough labour to pick winter vegetables on UK farms.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 October 2019
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Answer of 8 October to Question 293609, what (a) programmes and (b) deliverables were included in the Food, sustainable and competitive farming programme under th
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 October 2019
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many workers have (a) entered and (b) left the UK under the seasonal workers pilot scheme.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 October 2019
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make an assessment of the outcomes of the seasonal workers pilot scheme since that scheme opened; and if she will make a statement.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 October 2019
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the geographical distribution by region is of workers that have entered the UK under the seasonal workers pilot scheme.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 October 2019
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many inspections the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority has undertaken on farms employing workers under the seasonal workers pilot scheme.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 October 2019
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department has received all information that operators are required to provide from the Seasonal Workers Pilot Scheme.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 October 2019
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much funding his Department has allocated to support (a) food aid programmes and (b) agricultural development in each country in (i) sub-Saharan Africa and (ii) Asia in each of the last five
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 October 2019
To ask Her Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the tonnage of UK fruit and vegetables that were not harvested and left in the fields as a result of a shortage of seasonal workers.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 October 2019
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what (a) advice and (b) guidance his Department has issued to agri-food (i) farmers and (b) producers in Northern Ireland on that industry.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 October 2019
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the Agriculture Flat Rate Scheme is applied equally across the UK; and if not, why not.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 October 2019
To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking in regard to the Shields & Sons Partnership v HMRC [2017] C262-16 ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 October 2019
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union in Shields and Sons Partnerships v HMRC [2017] C262-16 that found that HMRC cannot exclude farming businesses from the Agriculture F
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 October 2019
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Prime Minister's oral contribution of 25 July 2019, Official Report, column 1497, what the timescale is for the allocation of £160 million funding for farming to
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 October 2019
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications to the seasonal workers pilot scheme were (a) successful and (b) unsuccessful.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 October 2019
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications to the seasonal workers pilot scheme from businesses operating in Scotland were (a) made and (b) successful.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 October 2019
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications under the seasonal workers pilot scheme were allocated but not filled with a seasonal worker.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 October 2019
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what criteria her Department plans to use to evaluate the seasonal workers pilot scheme.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 October 2019
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many places on the seasonal workers pilot scheme were allocated to (a) operators and (b) businesses in (i) Angus, (ii) Perth and North Perthshire, (iii) Stirling, (iv) Ochil and South Perthshire a
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 October 2019
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many places on the seasonal workers pilot scheme were allocated to (a) operators and (b) businesses in (i) Mcray, (ii) Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey, (iii) Banff and Buchan, (iv) Gordo
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 October 2019
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many places on the seasonal workers pilot scheme were allocated to (a) operators and (b) businesses in (i) Ayr Carrick and Cumnock, (ii) Dumfries and Galloway, (iii) Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 October 2019
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department has taken to establish (a) a baseline for existing carbon dioxide emissions from agriculture (b) an agreed methodology for measuring emissions and (c) a pathw
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 14 October 2019
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the effect of integrating trees into productive land management systems through agroforestry on (a) land management and (b) tackling climate change.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 14 October 2019
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans her Department has to increase the number of trees integrated into productive land management systems through agroforestry.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 14 October 2019
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans his Department has to incentivise farmers to use more sustainable farming methods.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 14 October 2019
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of whole farm agroecological systems.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 14 October 2019
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make it her policy to support the recommendation of the Royal Society of Arts Food, Farming and Countryside Commission report published on 16 July 2019 that the UK transiti
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 October 2019
Agriculture and Fisheries Council takes place in Luxembourg on 14-15 October.As the provisional agenda stands, the main item for fisheries will be fixing the fishing opportunities in the Baltic Sea for 2020. Member States will also discuss the Regulation ...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 October 2019
My Hon Friend George Eustice (Minister of State for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food) has today made the following statement: Agriculture and Fisheries Council takes place in Luxembourg on 14-15 October.As the provisional agenda stands, the main item for f...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 7 October 2019
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 3 October 2019
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps the Government is taking to support developing countries to make their agricultural practices more environmentally friendly.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 2 October 2019
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent advice her Department has issued to the farming sector in the event that the UK leaves the EU (a) with a deal and (b) without a deal.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 2 October 2019
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether pilots, or other tests and trials, of the proposed Environmental Land Management Schemes have taken place; and if so, when they will publish the results.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 2 October 2019
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much her Department has budgeted for (a) payments to farmers, (b) administration apparatus for payments and (c) civil service hours to process claims and payments to replace Common
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 2 October 2019
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answers of 6 and 9 September to Questions 282507, 282510, 282514, 282515, 282516, 282517, 282518, 282519, 282520, 282521, 282522, 282523, 282524, 282525, 282527, 282528
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 30 September 2019
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure the poultry meat sector has access to the labour it needs in any future scenario.