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.
Feb. 21 2024
Source Page: Agriculture and Rural Communities (Scotland) Bill Islands Communities Impact AssessmentFound: Agriculture and Rural Communities (Scotland) Bill Islands Communities Impact Assessment
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.
Jan. 30 2024
Source Page: Apply for consent to change uncultivated, semi-natural and rural landFound: Apply for consent to change uncultivated, semi-natural and rural land
Dec. 22 2023
Source Page: Farm accounts in England data setsFound: Land and property costs agriculture.property.costs Dairy Part-time 0 c c c 2021/22 2013SO Agriculture
Dec. 22 2023
Source Page: Farm accounts in England data setsFound: Land and property costs agriculture.property.costs Cereals Low 61 14,900 11,000 18,900 2021/22 2013SO
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
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
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
Correspondence Dec. 20 2023
Committee: Delegated Powers and Law Reform CommitteeFound: Agriculture and Rural Communities (Scotland) Bill Letter from the Convener to the Cabinet Secretary for