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51 records in UK in 2023
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 19 December 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to ensure that farmers are able to (a) access and (b) use capital grants.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 18 December 2023
To ask His Majesty's Government what consideration they have given to permitting farmers transitioning from Basic Payments to Delinked Payments to discount one or more of the years in the reference period as a result of (1) events outside their control, o
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 18 December 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent progress his Department has made towards developing a new regulatory regime to be implemented once cross-compliance ends in 2024.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 18 December 2023
To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, who will represent the UK at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s Inter Governmental Group meeting on Tea taking place between 31 January and 2 February 2024 in India; and w
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 13 December 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many recipients of the Basic Payments Scheme there are in Suffolk Coastal constituency.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 12 December 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make it his policy to dis-apply Regulation (EU) No 2017/893.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 December 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what proportion of agricultural land at each agricultural land classification grade was at (a) risk and (b) high risk of flooding in each of the last five years.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 December 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what funding his Department has provided to mitigate flooding on agricultural land in each year since 2018.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 December 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what financial support is available to farmers who have just lost their harvests due to flooding since 1 January 2023.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 December 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if his Department will take steps to implement a comprehensive agricultural water management strategy.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 December 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department has taken to reduce the proportion of Grade 1 agricultural land at high risk of flooding.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 December 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much funding his Department has provided to farmers for the implementation of flood prevention solutions on their farms in each of the last five years.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 7 December 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to work with (a) the agriculture sector and (b) farmers to (i) raise awareness of cyber security and (ii) tackle cyber crime.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 4 December 2023
To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to assist farmers transitioning towards net zero; and what steps, if any, they are taking to (1) support carbon auditing on farms, (2) standardise carbon calculators, and (3) invest in water manag
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 4 December 2023
To ask His Majesty's Government whether they will, in line with previous commitments, publish a land use framework for England in 2023.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 29 November 2023
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the role of farmland in mitigating potential flood damage by retaining excess water on fields in times of floods, and whether they have plans to reward farmers in this regard.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 27 November 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of extending the seasonal agricultural worker scheme on a multi-year basis.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 27 November 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of publishing an annual assessment of the potential impact of international trade deals on agriculture.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 November 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the guidance on cross compliance updated on 14 February 2023, which (a) cross compliance standards and (b) rules for participants in the Basic Payments Scheme or Coun
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 22 November 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what recent estimate he has made of the acreage of farm land used for (a) housing development, (b) commercial development, (c) solar panels and (d) battery storage in each of the las
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 November 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to his Department's publication entitled Environmental Improvement Plan 2023, published 31 January 2023, (a) how the target for 65% to 80% of farmers to adopt nature fri
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 November 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the UK Visas and Immigration seasonal workers team was established; how many visits it has made to farms since its establishment; whether it found evidence of underpayment of workers on its visit
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 November 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will undertake a review of the seasonal workers scheme.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 20 November 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many emergency authorisations were granted to certified organic producers to use non-organic seed in each of the last five years; and if he will make an assessment of the reasons f
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 November 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps to extend the livestock production syllabus of the agriculture land management and production T-level to include (a) pigs and (b) sheep.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 November 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to support farmers in areas recently affected by flooding.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 13 November 2023
To ask His Majesty's Government whether, in formulating rules for the natural capital markets, farmers and landowners will be permitted to ‘stack’ trades, that is to sell credits in different markets from the same operation; if so, whether carbon credits
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 November 2023
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the Barnett consequentials for Northern Ireland are of the Farming Innovation Programme's support for innovations in the countryside.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 November 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the impact of fireworks on farms and farming.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 7 November 2023
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 7 November 2023
To ask His Majesty's Government what is their estimate of the impact of the (1) Sustainable Farming Incentive, (2) Countryside Stewardship, and (3) Landscape Recovery schemes on (a) reductions in carbon emissions, (b) increased species abundance, and (c)
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 7 November 2023
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the contribution that the (1) Sustainable Farming Incentive, (2) Countryside Stewardship, and (3) Landscape Recovery schemes will make to delivering (a) the fifth carbon budget, and (b) the
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 7 November 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure that workers employed by a seasonal workers scheme license holder do not face barriers to employment when action is taken against the holder of the s
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 24 October 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 23 October 2023 to Question 200936 on Visas: Skilled Workers, how many allegations of exploitation investigated by the Seasonal Agricultural Compliance team resulted in (a) r
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 October 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism's report into the Seasonal Worker scheme, published on 22 October 2023.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 October 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when her Department plans to publish updated guidance for Seasonal Worker visa scheme operators where workers are at risk of exploitation.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 October 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many allegations raised by seasonal workers during farm inspections conducted by her Department were formally investigated in (a) 2022 and (b) 2023.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 October 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress his Department has made on implementing recommendations made by (a) the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration and (b) the Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner in report
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 19 October 2023
To ask His Majesty's Government what current action they are taking to work with (1) major supermarket chains, and (2) fruit and vegetable farmers, to protect the future of British food and farming for the long term, and to ensure that farmers have job se
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 18 October 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department is taking steps to help reduce the transition costs for farmers moving to regenerative agricultural methods.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 18 October 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of regenerative agriculture on achieving the Government's climate goals while increasing UK food security; and whether her
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 October 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will introduce a comprehensive decarbonisation strategy for the agriculture sector which helps to support farmers and their supply chain partners to (a) restore nature, (b) cut
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 13 October 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of different domestic farm support regimes in England, Scotland and Wales on farmers who operate (a) on and (b) near the
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 13 October 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department is taking steps to support farmers to store slurry.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 13 October 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board spent on equality and diversity training in the 2022-23 financial year.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 September 2023
To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to support regenerative agriculture.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 19 September 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department (a) conducts monitoring of and (b) has commissioned research on the (i) presence of (A) PFAS, (B) microplastics, (C) bisphenols and (D) other chemicals in treate
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 19 September 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to support agricultural export businesses in Essex.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 12 September 2023
To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to support farmers experiencing seasonal worker shortages.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 7 September 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the accuracy of the on-farm calculations undertaken by (a) farmers and (b) her Department of on-farm (i) carbon cycling and (ii) sequestration.