Written Evidence Apr. 23 2024
Inquiry: City Region and Growth DealsFound: -2025 Total investment: £1,499.3 £12,944.0 Source: UK Government - March 2024 Notes: *The Digital Dairy
Asked by: Helen Morgan (Liberal Democrat - North Shropshire)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to Table 1.2 of his Department's national statistics entitled Farm business income in England 2023/24 forecast, updated on 14 March 2024, whether his Department plans to provide financial support to dairy farmers in the context that their average farm business income in real terms is forecast to decrease by the greatest percentage among all farm types from financial year 2022-23 to financial year 2023-24.
Answered by Mark Spencer - Minister of State (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
The UK has a resilient and dynamic dairy sector which operates in an open market where the value of dairy commodities, including farmgate milk price, is established by those in the supply chain. The average Farm Business Income is at a 20-year high in 2022/23 following a previous 20-year high in 2021/22. The forecast decrease for 2023/24 would bring average Farm Business Income for dairy farm businesses back closer to historic trends. Through a range of government schemes, there is support for investment in dairy businesses through the Sustainable Farming Incentive, the animal health and welfare pathway and various productivity and innovation grants.
We have also recently introduced new legislation, The Fair Dealing Obligations (Milk) Regulations 2024, which creates new rules for dairy contracts covering issues such as pricing provisions, unilateral changes to contracts and notice periods. Ensuring fairer contracts will provide greater certainty for farmers and help the dairy industry thrive into the future.
Laid - 22 Apr 2024 In Force 28 Apr 2024
These Regulations make changes to the operation of official controls during the transitional staging period (“the TSP”), established under Annex 6 to Regulation (EU) 2017/625 of the European Parliament and of the Council on official controls and other official activities performed to ensure the application of food and feed law, …
Found: health and veterinary certification conditions for the introduction into the European Union of raw milk, dairy
Apr. 19 2024
Source Page: DN37 9TG, Seachill UK Limited: environmental permit issued - EPR/ZP3436LV/V006Found: emission levels (BAT -AELs) for direct emissions to a receiving water body Note: 125mg/l COD for dairy
Mentions:
1: Lord Curry of Kirkharle (XB - Life peer) Government have already committed to and are in the process of establishing an adjudicator for the dairy - Speech Link
Found: Commission1986 Commerce Act 1986 Fair T rading Act 1986 Credit Contracts and Consumer Finance Act 2003 Dairy
Mentions:
1: Rachel Maclean (Con - Redditch) What we really need are more wheat and dairy farms so that we can be sustainable as a population.There - Speech Link
Correspondence Apr. 18 2024
Committee: Net Zero, Energy and Transport CommitteeFound: future support can recognise uptake of these products as well as encouraging pioneering Scottish dairy
Apr. 17 2024
Source Page: Immigration Rules archive: 11 March 2024 to 3 April 2024Found: Factory worker (food products mfr) • Meat processor • Process worker (brewery) • Process worker (dairy
Published - Tuesday 16th April 2024
Department: Department for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsThese Regulations make provision for the protection of hedgerows on agricultural land.
Found: In these Regulations— “agriculture” includes— (a)horticulture, fruit growing, seed growing, dairy farming