Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 02 Nov 2022
Water Companies: Pollution
"My Lords, by no means wanting to excuse the water companies anything, I say that, certainly in the west of England, a lot of the river pollution comes from industrial food farming, particularly chickens and nitrates. What are the Government doing to fine it for its contribution to the pollution …..."Baroness Boycott - View Speech
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Written Question
Wednesday 26th October 2022
Asked by:
Baroness Boycott (Crossbench - Life peer)
Question
to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to replace the single farm payment.
Answered by Lord Benyon
- Lord Chamberlain (HM Household)
We intend to phase out untargeted Direct Payments in England by the end of 2027.
We are making a range of offers available to suit all farm types. Everything we are offering contributes to our 3 goals: supporting viable businesses; maintaining food production at its current level; and achieving animal health, welfare and climate outcomes.
We are offering a range of environmental land management schemes. In addition, we are offering other schemes and grants to help achieve our 3 goals. We launched funding for equipment, technology, and infrastructure that improves farm productivity and benefits the environment through the Farming Investment Fund.
Through the Farming Innovation Programme, we intend to unlock further innovation within the farming sector and contribute towards growth by supporting the development and adoption of new innovation by farmers and growers to ensure it can make a real difference.
Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 25 Oct 2022
Growth Plan 2022
"My Lords, recent data from the Food Foundation, of which I am proud to be a trustee, points out that, this September, 18% of households —over 10 million adults—had food insecurity. Some 58% of those households had cut down on buying fruit and 48% had cut down on buying vegetables, …..."Baroness Boycott - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 24 Oct 2022
Food: Imports and Security
"My Lords, the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit report last week found that the combined impacts of climate change as well as oil and gas prices have driven up food prices by £11.4 billion—that is £407 per household. Obviously, that is much more serious for those on lower incomes. Of …..."Baroness Boycott - View Speech
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Written Question
Monday 24th October 2022
Asked by:
Baroness Boycott (Crossbench - Life peer)
Question
to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask His Majesty's Government whether they can provide an update on the current status of the roll-out of the environmental land management schemes; and when they expect the schemes to be fully rolled out.
Answered by Lord Benyon
- Lord Chamberlain (HM Household)
The first Sustainable Farming Incentive pilot agreements started in 2021. We started to roll out core elements of the Sustainable Farming Incentive from June 2022, and we will expand those elements until we have the full offer available in 2025.
In February 2022, farmers and land managers were invited to apply for funding for Landscape Recovery, and following a competitive application process, Defra confirmed the 22 selected projects on Friday 2 September 2022. We will release more information on round 2 in due course. We will also publish more information on Local Nature Recovery by the end of the year.
Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 08 Sep 2022
Climate Change and Biodiversity: Food Security
"To move that this House takes note of the impact of climate change and biodiversity loss on food security...."Baroness Boycott - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 08 Sep 2022
Climate Change and Biodiversity: Food Security
"My Lords, I am very pleased to introduce this debate today. It was topical when I first tabled it, and it is even more so now. I thank all noble Lords who have signed up to speak, and I especially welcome the noble Baroness, Lady Willis of Summertown, who will …..."Baroness Boycott - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 08 Sep 2022
Climate Change and Biodiversity: Food Security
"My Lords, I thank the Minister for his reply. As I think he knows, I have a great deal of time and respect for his points of view. I am afraid I do not completely share his optimism that we are getting it all right and looking at green and …..."Baroness Boycott - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Fri 08 Jul 2022
Clean Air (Human Rights) Bill [HL]
"It is a pleasure, as always, to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Brinton, and I hugely congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Jones, on getting to No. 1 on the Bill list and on getting this Bill going. I honour the presence of Rosamund here in the House—it seems wrong to …..."Baroness Boycott - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 07 Jul 2022
Food Strategy White Paper
"To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they will take to monitor the delivery of the proposals in their food strategy white paper, published on 13 June...."Baroness Boycott - View Speech
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