Information between 18th February 2024 - 19th May 2024
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Parliamentary Debates |
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Renters (Reform) Bill
66 speeches (36,628 words) 2nd reading Wednesday 15th May 2024 - Lords Chamber Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities Mentions: 1: Earl of Lytton (XB - Excepted Hereditary) carving out an exemption for agricultural and forestry workers fails to address the wider diversified rural - Link to Speech |
West Midlands: Transport
34 speeches (9,837 words) Wednesday 8th May 2024 - Westminster Hall Home Office Mentions: 1: Helen Morgan (LD - North Shropshire) difficult for people living in deprived, very rural areas.In 2023, the all-party parliamentary group on rural - Link to Speech |
Budget Resolutions
140 speeches (45,032 words) Monday 11th March 2024 - Commons Chamber Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport Mentions: 1: Helen Morgan (LD - North Shropshire) of rural businesses have a stable 4G connection, according to the all-party parliamentary group for rural - Link to Speech |
Off-road Biking
32 speeches (10,036 words) Tuesday 20th February 2024 - Westminster Hall Home Office Mentions: 1: Alex Norris (LAB - Nottingham North) talked about the damage that can be done to fields, crops or livestock, which would also frustrate those rural - Link to Speech |
Select Committee Documents |
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Tuesday 16th April 2024
Correspondence - Correspondence from Landex, regarding updates on its work with the Department for Education and Higher Education partners, dated 11 April 2024 Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee Found: Supporting rural business sustainability, resilience & productivity to drive a thriving rural economy |
Written Answers |
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Rural England Prosperity Fund
Asked by: Alex Sobel (Labour (Co-op) - Leeds North West) Monday 26th February 2024 Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department plans to extend the funding period for the Rural England Prosperity Fund. Answered by Robbie Moore - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) The Government is committed to helping rural businesses prosper. The Rural England Prosperity Fund is a rural top-up to the UK Shared Prosperity Fund, providing allocations for eligible local authorities in England to help address the additional needs and challenges facing rural areas.
Overall, the fund will provide up to £110 million in funding to eligible local authorities between April 2023 and March 2025.
To date the fund is providing capital funding to support new and existing rural businesses to develop new products and facilities that will be of wider benefit to the local economy.
This includes small scale investment in micro and small enterprises in rural areas to create leisure and tourism facilities, the capital funding of net zero infrastructures for rural business, and the diversification of farm businesses outside of agriculture to encourage start up, expansion or scale up of these businesses where this involves converting farm buildings into other commercial or business uses.
The Government intends to monitor and evaluate the impact of the fund, with any decision on additional funding a matter for a future Spending Review. |
Department Publications - Transparency |
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Monday 13th May 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Source Page: Defra: spending over £25,000, February 2024 Document: (Excel) Found: 77DEFRADEFRA2024-02-12 00:00:00EXP - CURRENT GRANTS TO CENTRAL GOVERNMENTINNOVATIVE SUSTAINABLE FARMINGTHE RURAL |
Department Publications - Policy paper |
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Monday 18th March 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Source Page: Delivering rural opportunity Document: Delivering rural opportunity: third report on rural proofing (PDF version) (PDF) Found: allocations were confirmed to local authorities in April 2023, and local authorities are now working with rural |
Monday 18th March 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Source Page: Delivering rural opportunity Document: Delivering rural opportunity (webpage) Found: Delivering rural opportunity Third rural proofing report setting out how the government supports rural |
Department Publications - News and Communications |
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Wednesday 13th March 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities Source Page: Recovered appeal: land at Milton Road, Gayton, Northampton (ref: 3314266 - 13 March 2024) Document: Recovered appeal: land at Milton Road, Gayton, Northampton (ref: 3314266 - 13 March 2024) (PDF) Found: relates to the diversific ation of an existing farm, agricultural estate, or other land- based rural |
Department Publications - Statistics |
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Wednesday 21st February 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities Source Page: National non-domestic rates collected by councils in England: forecast 2024 to 2025 Document: (ODS) Found: business relief to be provided (BA) dr_smlrural_da Forecast of small rural business relief to be provided |
Scottish Select Committee Publications |
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Monday 18th March 2024
Report - This report sets out the Rural Affairs and Islands Committee's consideration of the Agriculture and Rural Communities (Scotland) Bill at Stage 1. Stage 1 report on the Agriculture and Rural Communities (Scotland) Bill Rural Affairs and Islands Committee Found: technically be very broad in scope, and more generally posted the question of whether support for general rural |
Monday 18th March 2024
Report - This report sets out the Rural Affairs and Islands Committee's consideration of the Agriculture and Rural Communities (Scotland) Bill at Stage 1. Stage 1 report on the Agriculture and Rural Communities (Scotland) Bill Rural Affairs and Islands Committee Found: technically be very broad in scope, and more generally posted the question of whether support for general rural |
Thursday 15th February 2024
Correspondence - A submission from the John Muir Trust, February 2024 NPF4 annual review 2024 Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee Found: Small -scale development directly linked to a rural business, farm or croft; …’ We also ask Committee |
Scottish Government Publications |
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Wednesday 28th February 2024
Local Government and Housing Directorate Source Page: Investing in Planning A consultation on resourcing Scotland's planning system Document: Investing in Planning A consultation on resourcing Scotland's planning system (webpage) Found: We must recognise the importance of delivering housing and supporting rural business in our rural island |
Wednesday 28th February 2024
Local Government and Housing Directorate Source Page: Investing in Planning A consultation on resourcing Scotland's planning system Document: Investing in Planning A consultation on resourcing Scotland’s planning system (PDF) Found: We must recognise the importance of delivering housing and supporting rural business in our rural island |
Scottish Parliamentary Debates |
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Agriculture and Rural Communities (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2
284 speeches (210,960 words) Wednesday 8th May 2024 - Committee Mentions: 1: Gougeon, Mairi (SNP - Angus North and Mearns) The positive intent behind amendment 26 is not in question, but there are a myriad reasons why a rural - Link to Speech |