Written Evidence Dec. 13 2023
Inquiry: Cyber resilience of the UK's critical national infrastructureFound: CYB0004 - Cyber resilience of the UK's critical national infrastructure Spydr Network Written Evidence
Mentions:
1: Mark Spencer (Con - Sherwood) resilience within the context of its licence and broader statutory obligations. - Speech Link
2: Mark Spencer (Con - Sherwood) Where it has been determined that financial resilience needs to be strengthened, a wide range of options - Speech Link
Asked by: Baroness Kennedy of Cradley (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to support UK farmers to increase the production of wheat, barley, oats, and other cereals.
Answered by Lord Douglas-Miller - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
Our fantastic British farmers are world-leaders and carefully plan their planting to suit the weather, their soil type, and their long-term agronomic strategy.
It is not Government policy to determine which crops farmers should prioritise to include in their crop rotation, but we will continue to support farmers, so they can make the right decisions for them and the productivity of their land.
At the NFU conference, the Government announced a range of measures to boost productivity and resilience in the farming sector, including the largest ever grant offer for farmers in the coming financial year, expected to total £427 million. This includes doubling investment in productivity schemes, bolstering schemes such as the Improving Farming Productivity grant, the Water Management grant, the adding Value grant. Lastly the Farming Equipment and Technology fund can fund productivity items from a specified list of equipment, including eligible drills, fertiliser applicators, and grain dryers, which is due to open in the coming weeks.
Defra’s Genetic Improvement Networks (GINs) on Wheat, Oilseed Rape and Pulses crops aim to improve the main UK crops by identifying genetic traits to improve their productivity, sustainability and resilience. Across the GINs we have already successfully identified genetic traits that have improved resilience to climate change and common pests and diseases, and we are working with breeders to incorporate these traits into elite UK crop varieties.
Report Apr. 19 2024
Committee: Public Accounts CommitteeFound: Twenty-Seventh Report - Government resilience: extreme weather HC 454 Report
Apr. 29 2024
Source Page: I. Universal Credit Programme Board Papers from November and December 2021 and January, February, March and April 2022 [redacted] (58 docs). II. Letter dated 15/04/2024 from Jo Churchill MP to the Deposited Papers Clerk regarding documents for deposit in the House libraries. 3p.Found: purpose of the UC Programme Board (UC PB) is to provide advice and support to the SRO (the Change and Resilience
Apr. 16 2024
Source Page: Pandemic preparedness: FOI releaseFound: Part 1 Total spending on pandemic preparedness, by financial year, from 2017-18 to 2024-25.
May. 02 2024
Source Page: Academic Advisory Panel – 4 March 2024 - SummaryFound: data generated by these projects will support adaptation efforts and contribute to improving long-term resilience
Written Evidence Jan. 17 2024
Committee: Public Accounts CommitteeFound: balanced against the value preserved or gained by controlling losses, securing savings and building resilience
Sep. 01 2023
Source Page: Financial resilience appeal 2023Found: Financial resilience appeal 2023
Sep. 01 2023
Source Page: Financial resilience appeal 2023Found: Financial resilience appeal 2023