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Select Committee
Open letter from the Chair to a future EFRA Committee outlining its current areas of interest and open inquiries, dated 24 May

Correspondence May. 24 2024

Committee: Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee (Department: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)

Found: -based sectors, Fairness in the food supply chain, and UK trade policy: food and agriculture.


Scottish Government Publication (Impact assessment)
Agriculture and Rural Economy Directorate

Feb. 21 2024

Source Page: Agriculture and Rural Communities (Scotland) Bill Islands Communities Impact Assessment
Document: Islands Communities Impact Assessment - Agriculture and Rural Communities (Scotland) Bill (PDF)

Found: Agriculture and Rural Communities (Scotland) Bill Islands Communities Impact Assessment


Written Question
Agriculture (Delinked Payments) (Reductions) (England) Regulations 2024
Monday 20th May 2024

Asked by: Bill Wiggin (Conservative - North Herefordshire)

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the draft Agriculture (Delinked Payments) (Reductions) (England) Regulations 2024 on the incomes of farmers.

Answered by Mark Spencer - Minister of State (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)

As part of our transition away from Direct Payments, the draft Agriculture (Delinked Payments) (Reductions) (England) Regulations 2024 will apply reductions to delinked payments in 2024. However, this money is not being lost to the sector. The overall farming budget in England is being maintained at an average of £2.4 billion per year across this Parliament. The money released from the reductions is being reinvested in our other schemes for farmers and land managers. This means farmers can access funding which will help reduce costs and improve productivity and resilience, as well as benefitting the environment.

Analysis of the impacts of removing Direct Payments was included in the Government’s 2019 farming evidence compendium and 2021 and 2022 Agriculture in the UK Evidence Packs.


Non-Departmental Publication (Services)
Natural England

Jan. 30 2024

Source Page: Apply for consent to change uncultivated, semi-natural and rural land
Document: (webpage)

Found: Apply for consent to change uncultivated, semi-natural and rural land


Departmental Publication (Research)
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Dec. 22 2023

Source Page: Farm accounts in England data sets
Document: (webpage)

Found: Land and property costs agriculture.property.costs Dairy Part-time 0 c c c 2021/22 2013SO Agriculture


Departmental Publication (Research)
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Dec. 22 2023

Source Page: Farm accounts in England data sets
Document: (webpage)

Found: Land and property costs agriculture.property.costs Cereals Low 61 14,900 11,000 18,900 2021/22 2013SO


Commons Chamber
Farming - Mon 04 Mar 2024
Wales Office

Mentions:
1: Steve Reed (LAB - Croydon North) We need a land use framework to make sure that the many competing demands on our land can work in balance - Speech Link
2: Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con - The Cotswolds) Friend is making an extremely knowledgeable speech about agriculture, as I would expect. - Speech Link
3: Thérèse Coffey (Con - Suffolk Coastal) land management scheme by 2028. - Speech Link
4: Edward Leigh (Con - Gainsborough) We put them on warehouses or inferior land, but not on good agricultural land in Lincolnshire and Norfolk - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Agriculture - Mon 13 May 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Mark Spencer (Con - Sherwood) I beg to move,That the draft Agriculture (Delinked Payments) (Reductions) (England) Regulations 2024 - Speech Link
2: Mark Spencer (Con - Sherwood) Alongside that, we are pushing to improve gene editing and gene technology, to try to make agriculture - Speech Link
3: Steve Reed (LAB - Croydon North) policy—a new dawn for British agriculture post Brexit. - Speech Link
4: Bill Wiggin (Con - North Herefordshire) We need to be competing with Germany and Holland in the way we approach agriculture. - Speech Link
5: George Eustice (Con - Camborne and Redruth) land were able to charge higher rents to those who needed to rent land in order to farm. - Speech Link


Scottish Parliament Debate - Committee
Agriculture and Rural Communities (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1 - Wed 31 Jan 2024

Mentions:
1: None If it sets out to cover all the different types of agriculture and the different types of land use across - Speech Link
2: None building the capacity of women in agriculture. - Speech Link
3: None which pushes land prices through the roof. - Speech Link
4: None Even if they are inheriting land but also to enable access to land, young people need support with what - Speech Link
5: Carson, Finlay (Con - Galloway and West Dumfries) We can open it up to rural or agriculture. - Speech Link


Scottish Parliament Select Committee
Letter from the Convener to the Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs, Land Reform and Islands, 20 December 2023
Agriculture and Rural Communities (Scotland) Bill

Correspondence Dec. 20 2023

Committee: Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee

Found: Agriculture and Rural Communities (Scotland) Bill Letter from the Convener to the Cabinet Secretary for