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Question· Written questionUIN 29111open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 11 September 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the forthcoming poultry growth strategy will support a transition away from intensive animal agriculture towards prioritising animal welfare, environmental and public health.
Question· Written questionUIN 28096open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 September 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what is the scope of the Future Rural Payments Service.
Question· Written questionUIN 28147open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 September 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to increase water security for Farmers in Devon during heatwaves.
Question· Written questionUIN 28235open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 September 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she plans to include capital grant options for improving on-farm water supply and storage infrastructure in the grant scheme that will incorporate elements of the Farming Equip
Question· Written questionUIN 28236open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 September 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department will include measures to improve farm water security when determining which items currently supported through the Farming Equipment and Technology Fund will be i
Question· Written questionUIN 26604open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 2 September 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her department has made of the scale of the use of fast-growing chicken breeds in the UK, both in terms of UK farming and UK retail sales.
Question· Written questionUIN 26605open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 2 September 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what further legislative actions her Department is considering to mandate or ban the use of specific breeds of chicken in UK farming.
Question· Written questionUIN 26639open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 2 September 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions she has had with the farming community on the prospect of higher inheritance tax bills if a farm invests in a new farm reservoir or an irrigation system.
Question· Written questionUIN 26669open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 2 September 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her department is taking to support farmers in addressing workforce shortages.
Question· Written questionUIN 26332open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 1 September 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the UK's exposure to a simultaneous collapse of production in two or more global breadbasket regions.
Question· Written questionUIN 22125open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 28 August 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of the water management grant of up to £15 million, within the drought support package.
Question· Written questionUIN 23029open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 28 August 2026
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether it is still his Department's policy to keep the Agricultural and Business Property Reliefs threshold at £2.5m.
Question· Written questionUIN 23200open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 28 August 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what information her Department holds on the number of irrigation restrictions in place to reduce water abstraction by farmers in Huntingdon constituency.
Question· Written questionUIN 23326open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 28 August 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Press release “PM: Farmers should not carry the risk of a changing climate alone” published on 14 August 2026, how will up to £15 million for on-farm reservoirs b
Question· Written questionUIN 24231open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 28 August 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, what recent assessment he has made of the potential impact of UK trade agreements on Scottish agriculture.
Question· Written questionUIN 24345open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 28 August 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of whether rural broadband and mobile connectivity are sufficient to support the deployment of agricultural robotics in Buckinghamshire.
Question· Written questionUIN 24614open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 28 August 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions on the potential impact of apprenticeship assessment reforms on workforce capacity in agriculture, forest
Question· Written questionUIN 25024open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 28 August 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much and what proportion of the agriculture budget is being paid directly to farmers in the 2026–27 financial year.
Question· Written questionUIN 25027open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 28 August 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of changes to farm support payments on farm businesses in West Dorset constituency.
Question· Written questionUIN 25200answered
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 28 August 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of existing (a) education, (b) training and (c) skills provision to support recruitment and retention in the food and farming supply chain.
Question· Written questionUIN 25201answered
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 28 August 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to promote participation in technical, vocational and apprenticeship pathways relevant to careers in the food and farming supply chain.
Question· Written questionUIN 23283answered
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 28 August 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Press release PM: Farmers should not carry the risk of a changing climate alone,published on 14 August 2026, what steps she is taking to improve access to water d
Question· Written questionUIN 23389answered
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 28 August 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps is she taking to support the process of building on-farm irrigation reservoirs.
Question· Written questionUIN 25430answered
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 28 August 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Department's press release entitled New support to help farmers thrive for generations, published on 16 July 2026, what assessment was made of the principal barri
Question· Written questionUIN 25431answered
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 28 August 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate has been made of the number of collaborative farming groups currently operating in England.
Question· Written questionUIN 25026answered
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 28 August 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has had discussions with representatives of the farming sector on the level of funding available under replacement farm support schemes.
Question· Written questionUIN 23119answered
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 28 August 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority Major Projects Annual Report 2025 to 2026, Tables, Farming and Countryside Programme, what was the ou
Question· Written questionUIN 23253answered
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 28 August 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to her Department's press release entitled PM: Farmers should not carry the risk of a changing climate alone, published on 14 August 2026, what existing schemes within D
Question· Written questionUIN 23121answered
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 28 August 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, on what date was the Farming Directorate created.
Question· Written questionUIN 24342answered
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 28 August 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the barriers to adoption of agricultural robotics by small and medium-sized farms.
Question· Written questionUIN 24341answered
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 28 August 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that farmers in Buckinghamshire can benefit from Government funding in agricultural robotics.
Question· Written questionUIN 24343answered
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 28 August 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what metrics her Department will use to assess the success of Government investment in agricultural robotics.
Question· Written questionUIN 24344answered
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 28 August 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of agricultural robotics on the future agricultural workforce.
Question· Written questionUIN 24424answered
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 28 August 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to support farmers in diversifying and expanding businesses in the context of the publication of the Farming Roadmap.
Question· Written questionUIN 19884answered
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 28 August 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what data her Department collects on (a) animal welfare breaches identified during farm inspections and (b) subsequent enforcement action taken; and whether she plans to publish those
Question· Written questionUIN 19885answered
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 28 August 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what information from individual farm animal welfare inspections is routinely published, and what assessment she has made of whether those arrangements provide adequate public scrutiny
Question· Written questionUIN 19742open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 July 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, what actions, programmes and investment vehicles will be used to support agri-tech as a frontier industry under the Industrial Strategy.
Question· Written questionUIN 19410answered
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 July 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what documentary evidence does UK Visas and Immigration normally expect to see from self-employed farmers applying for Standard Visitor Visas, where income is not received on an a regular monthly basi
Question· Written questionUIN 19411answered
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 July 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, What assessment has been made of whether applicants employed in the agriculture sector face particular difficulties in evidencing their financial circumstances for the purposes of obtaining a Standard
Question· Written questionUIN 19488answered
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 July 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, much money has been awarded through the Water Management Grant between its inception and 4 July 2024.
Question· Written questionUIN 19489answered
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 July 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much money has been awarded through the Water Management Grant since 5 July 2024.
Question· Written questionUIN 19490answered
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 July 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much money is left in the Water Management Grant Fund.
Question· Written questionUIN 19739answered
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 July 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to support farmers to improve water resilience through on-farm reservoirs.
Question· Written questionUIN 19740answered
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 July 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the answer of 29 April 2026 to Question HL16697 on Agriculture: Reservoirs, what assessment she has made of whether the current rate of large raised reservoir construction
Question· Written questionHL HL2161answered
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 July 2026
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the answer by Baroness Hayman of Ullock on 1 July (HL Deb col 1066), whether they have asked for an exception carve-out for precision breeding and gene editing in the UK-EU Sanitary and Phytosanitary agreement n
Question· Written questionHL HL2162answered
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 July 2026
To ask His Majesty's Government whether they are seeking legal advice about potential litigation risks from other international trade counterparties resulting from a future UK–EU Sanitary and Phytosanitary Agreement; and if so, to which departments will t
Question· Written questionUIN 19287answered
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 July 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to improve the publication of farmed animal welfare inspections; and if she will consider extending transparency requirements across farmed animal sectors, inc
Question· Written questionUIN 18930answered
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 14 July 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how much public funding has been allocated through the Industrial Strategy to support agri-tech as a frontier industry; and how this compares with the funding allocated to each other frontier industry
Question· Written questionUIN 18931answered
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 14 July 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department has designated a team responsible for agri-tech as a frontier industry under the Industrial Strategy.
Question· Written questionUIN 17977answered
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 13 July 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of Greenpeace's report entitled Our Poisoned Land and its calls for the Government to help farmers to (a) reduce agric