Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department plans to take to help farmers affected by heavy falls of snow in March 2018.
The Government recognises the challenges faced by farmers during the recent adverse weather conditions. The main difficulties appear to have been with feed deliveries, milk collections and collection of fallen stock. To assist farmers, Government authorised extensions to the normal driving time limits and agreed that the collection of fallen stock could be delayed. We continue to monitor the situation with the National Fallen Stock Company.