Asked by: Greg Knight (Conservative - East Yorkshire)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what additional steps her Department plans to take to reduce the risk of flooding in East Yorkshire.
Answered by Rebecca Pow - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
In March 2020, the Government announced a record £5.2 billion investment over six years in flood and coastal erosion schemes to better protect communities across England. An additional funding of £200 million over six years will help over 25 local areas to take forward wider innovative actions that improve their resilience to flooding and coastal erosion. £8 million of the £200 million Flood and Coastal Innovation Programme has been allocated to the four adaptive pathways support work in the Thames and Humber estuaries, the Severn Valley, and Yorkshire to trial and develop ways of planning ahead and making wise investment choices for the decades to come in face of the long-term uncertainties brought by climate change.
The Environment Agency is progressing a wide range of studies, in partnership with other flood risk management authorities and stakeholders, to identify options to further reduce flood risk in the East Yorkshire area, both now and into the future. The outputs will afford a better understanding of the needs, risks and opportunities and shape flood risk management in East Yorkshire and the wider area for decades.
These include the Humber 2100+ study, which is developing an integrated approach to flood risk across the Humber Estuary. Large parts of East Yorkshire, particularly along the north bank of the Humber Estuary, are at risk of tidal flooding – a risk which will only increase with climate change. The Environment Agency and 11 local authorities (including East Riding of Yorkshire Council) are working together and with others to develop the long-term strategic approach for managing tidal flood risk, so safeguarding the future of the Humber area in the face of sea level rise and climate change. Other studies include strategic reviews of flood risk in the upper and middle catchments of the river Hull and in the middle catchment of the river Humber. The Environment Agency is also reviewing its flood models for the River Hull.
Specific to the East Yorkshire parliamentary constituency, much of the land here is predominantly low-lying farmland, drained over hundreds of years and heavily reliant on embankments, land drainage and pumping to manage flood risk. The Environment Agency is working closely with the Rt Hon Member, the Rt Hon Member for Beverley and Holderness, Internal Drainage Boards, landowners and farmers to shape our approach to reducing flood risk.
Asked by: Daniel Zeichner (Labour - Cambridge)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many farm businesses are participating in Environmental Land Management scheme programmes in each (a) constituency, (b) local authority and (c) region of England.
Answered by Mark Spencer - Minister of State (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
There are three new schemes that will reward farmers for their environmental land management; these are the Sustainable Farming Incentive, Local Nature Recovery and Landscape Recovery schemes.
The Sustainable Farming Incentive is the first of the new environmental land management schemes to open for applications. As of 18th October 2022, over 4,450 farmers had started their applications, of which 1,980 had been submitted to the Rural Payments Agency. This figure includes applications received for both the pilot scheme launched in 2021 and early rollout of the scheme in June 2022.
The following number of farm businesses in the associated regions have submitted an application to the Rural Payments Agency.
REGION | Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics | PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCY | Total |
East Midlands (England) 225 | Derby | Mid Derbyshire | 1 |
East Derbyshire | Bolsover | 3 | |
North East Derbyshire | 5 | ||
Leicestershire CC and Rutland | Bosworth | 9 | |
Charnwood | 2 | ||
Harborough | 1 | ||
Loughborough | 1 | ||
North West Leicestershire | 6 | ||
Rutland and Melton | 24 | ||
South Leicestershire | 5 | ||
Lincolnshire | Boston and Skegness | 5 | |
Gainsborough | 16 | ||
Grantham and Stamford | 15 | ||
Lincoln | 1 | ||
Louth and Horncastle | 16 | ||
Sleaford and North Hykeham | 17 | ||
South Holland and The Deepings | 7 | ||
North Northamptonshire | Corby | 3 | |
Daventry | 1 | ||
Kettering | 2 | ||
Wellingborough | 2 | ||
North Nottinghamshire | Ashfield | 2 | |
Bassetlaw | 2 | ||
Mansfield | 3 | ||
Newark | 3 | ||
Sherwood | 4 | ||
South and West Derbyshire | Amber Valley | 2 | |
Derbyshire Dales | 19 | ||
High Peak | 11 | ||
Mid Derbyshire | 2 | ||
South Derbyshire | 3 | ||
South Nottinghamshire | Broxtowe | 2 | |
Newark | 3 | ||
Rushcliffe | 4 | ||
West Northamptonshire | Daventry | 15 | |
South Northamptonshire | 8 | ||
East of England 265 | Bedford | Mid Bedfordshire | 1 |
North East Bedfordshire | 4 | ||
Breckland and South Norfolk | Mid Norfolk | 10 | |
South Norfolk | 10 | ||
South West Norfolk | 4 | ||
Cambridgeshire CC | Cambridge | 1 | |
Huntingdon | 3 | ||
North East Cambridgeshire | 10 | ||
North West Cambridgeshire | 12 | ||
South Cambridgeshire | 13 | ||
South East Cambridgeshire | 11 | ||
Central Bedfordshire | Mid Bedfordshire | 4 | |
North East Bedfordshire | 2 | ||
Essex Haven Gateway | Braintree | 10 | |
Clacton | 1 | ||
Harwich and North Essex | 9 | ||
Witham | 2 | ||
Essex Thames Gateway | Basildon and Billericay | 2 | |
Rochford and Southend East | 1 | ||
Heart of Essex | Chelmsford | 1 | |
Maldon | 1 | ||
Saffron Walden | 3 | ||
Hertfordshire | Hemel Hempstead | 1 | |
Hertford and Stortford | 4 | ||
Hertsmere | 3 | ||
Hitchin and Harpenden | 2 | ||
North East Hertfordshire | 8 | ||
St Albans | 1 | ||
Welwyn Hatfield | 1 | ||
North and West Norfolk | Broadland | 3 | |
North Norfolk | 13 | ||
North West Norfolk | 7 | ||
South West Norfolk | 6 | ||
Norwich and East Norfolk | Broadland | 8 | |
Great Yarmouth | 2 | ||
Norwich South | 2 | ||
Peterborough | Peterborough | 1 | |
Suffolk | Bury St Edmunds | 9 | |
Central Suffolk and North Ipswich | 20 | ||
South Suffolk | 11 | ||
Suffolk Coastal | 9 | ||
Waveney | 4 | ||
West Suffolk | 12 | ||
Thurrock | South Basildon and East Thurrock | 1 | |
West Essex | Brentwood and Ongar | 1 | |
Epping Forest | 2 | ||
Harlow | 2 | ||
Saffron Walden | 17 | ||
London 18 | Barking & Dagenham and Havering | Hornchurch and Upminster | 1 |
Barnet | Hendon | 1 | |
Camden and City of London | Holborn and St Pancras | 1 | |
Enfield | Enfield North | 1 | |
Haringey and Islington | Hornsey and Wood Green | 1 | |
Kensington & Chelsea and Hammersmith & Fulham | Hammersmith | 1 | |
Kensington | 2 | ||
Lambeth | Streatham | 1 | |
Merton, Kingston upon Thames and Sutton | Kingston and Surbiton | 4 | |
Mitcham and Morden | 1 | ||
Wimbledon | 1 | ||
Redbridge and Waltham Forest | Walthamstow | 1 | |
Wandsworth | Tooting | 1 | |
Westminster | Westminster North | 1 | |
North East (England) 142 | Darlington | Sedgefield | 3 |
Durham CC | Bishop Auckland | 14 | |
City of Durham | 2 | ||
Easington | 1 | ||
North Durham | 2 | ||
North West Durham | 2 | ||
Sedgefield | 4 | ||
Hartlepool and Stockton-on-Tees | Hartlepool | 1 | |
Stockton South | 1 | ||
Northumberland | Berwick-upon-Tweed | 73 | |
Blaydon | 1 | ||
Blyth Valley | 2 | ||
Hexham | 27 | ||
Wansbeck | 2 | ||
South Teesside | Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland | 1 | |
Tyneside | Blaydon | 1 | |
Newcastle upon Tyne Central | 2 | ||
Newcastle upon Tyne East | 1 | ||
Newcastle upon Tyne North | 2 | ||
North West (England) 204 | Cheshire East | Congleton | 3 |
Crewe and Nantwich | 1 | ||
Eddisbury | 3 | ||
Macclesfield | 6 | ||
Tatton | 1 | ||
Cheshire West and Chester | City of Chester | 1 | |
Eddisbury | 11 | ||
Weaver Vale | 2 | ||
Chorley and West Lancashire | Chorley | 3 | |
South Ribble | 2 | ||
West Lancashire | 7 | ||
East Cumbria | Barrow and Furness | 4 | |
Carlisle | 2 | ||
Penrith and The Border | 47 | ||
Westmorland and Lonsdale | 19 | ||
East Lancashire | Burnley | 2 | |
Pendle | 1 | ||
Rossendale and Darwen | 2 | ||
East Merseyside | St Helens North | 1 | |
Greater Manchester North East | Bury South | 1 | |
Heywood and Middleton | 1 | ||
Greater Manchester North West | Bolton West | 2 | |
Wigan | 4 | ||
Greater Manchester South East | Stalybridge and Hyde | 3 | |
Greater Manchester South West | Altrincham and Sale West | 1 | |
Lancaster and Wyre | Lancaster and Fleetwood | 19 | |
Morecambe and Lunesdale | 2 | ||
Wyre and Preston North | 8 | ||
Mid Lancashire | Fylde | 4 | |
Ribble Valley | 10 | ||
South Ribble | 1 | ||
Wyre and Preston North | 1 | ||
Sefton | Sefton Central | 2 | |
Warrington | Warrington South | 1 | |
West Cumbria | Barrow and Furness | 2 | |
Copeland | 13 | ||
Penrith and The Border | 1 | ||
Workington | 10 | ||
Scotland 1 | Lochaber, Skye and Lochalsh, Arran and Cumbrae and Argyll and Bute | Argyll and Bute | 1 |
South East (England) 245 | Berkshire | Maidenhead | 1 |
Newbury | 7 | ||
Windsor | 2 | ||
Wokingham | 2 | ||
Brighton and Hove | Brighton, Pavilion | 1 | |
Buckinghamshire CC | Aylesbury | 4 | |
Beaconsfield | 3 | ||
Buckingham | 16 | ||
Chesham and Amersham | 2 | ||
Wycombe | 2 | ||
Central Hampshire | East Hampshire | 1 | |
Meon Valley | 10 | ||
New Forest East | 1 | ||
New Forest West | 6 | ||
North West Hampshire | 1 | ||
Romsey and Southampton North | 7 | ||
Winchester | 2 | ||
East Kent | Canterbury | 4 | |
Dover | 2 | ||
Folkestone and Hythe | 2 | ||
South Thanet | 3 | ||
East Surrey | East Surrey | 2 | |
Reigate | 1 | ||
East Sussex CC | Bexhill and Battle | 5 | |
Hastings and Rye | 2 | ||
Lewes | 3 | ||
Wealden | 10 | ||
Isle of Wight | Isle of Wight | 14 | |
Kent Thames Gateway | Faversham and Mid Kent | 3 | |
Gravesham | 1 | ||
Medway | Rochester and Strood | 2 | |
Mid Kent | Ashford | 14 | |
Faversham and Mid Kent | 5 | ||
Folkestone and Hythe | 1 | ||
Maidstone and The Weald | 1 | ||
Milton Keynes | Milton Keynes North | 3 | |
North Hampshire | North East Hampshire | 5 | |
North West Hampshire | 6 | ||
Oxfordshire | Banbury | 10 | |
Henley | 13 | ||
Wantage | 6 | ||
Witney | 15 | ||
South Hampshire | Havant | 1 | |
West Kent | Maidstone and The Weald | 3 | |
Sevenoaks | 3 | ||
Tonbridge and Malling | 1 | ||
Tunbridge Wells | 7 | ||
West Surrey | Guildford | 4 | |
Runnymede and Weybridge | 1 | ||
South West Surrey | 3 | ||
Woking | 2 | ||
West Sussex (North East) | Arundel and South Downs | 1 | |
Horsham | 3 | ||
Mid Sussex | 2 | ||
West Sussex (South West) | Arundel and South Downs | 4 | |
Bognor Regis and Littlehampton | 2 | ||
Chichester | 6 | ||
East Worthing and Shoreham | 1 | ||
South West (England) 444 | Bath and North East Somerset, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire | North East Somerset | 4 |
North Somerset | 4 | ||
Thornbury and Yate | 5 | ||
Weston-Super-Mare | 3 | ||
Bournemouth and Poole | Bournemouth West | 1 | |
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly | Camborne and Redruth | 6 | |
North Cornwall | 13 | ||
South East Cornwall | 18 | ||
St Austell and Newquay | 3 | ||
St Ives | 14 | ||
Truro and Falmouth | 8 | ||
Devon CC | Central Devon | 37 | |
East Devon | 4 | ||
Exeter | 1 | ||
Newton Abbot | 4 | ||
North Devon | 25 | ||
South West Devon | 7 | ||
Tiverton and Honiton | 28 | ||
Torridge and West Devon | 32 | ||
Totnes | 12 | ||
Dorset CC | Christchurch | 1 | |
Mid Dorset and North Poole | 1 | ||
North Dorset | 12 | ||
South Dorset | 4 | ||
West Dorset | 31 | ||
Gloucestershire | Forest of Dean | 3 | |
Stroud | 5 | ||
Tewkesbury | 3 | ||
The Cotswolds | 14 | ||
Plymouth | South West Devon | 1 | |
Somerset | Bridgwater and West Somerset | 19 | |
Somerton and Frome | 15 | ||
Taunton Deane | 16 | ||
Wells | 15 | ||
Yeovil | 8 | ||
Swindon | South Swindon | 1 | |
Wiltshire | Chippenham | 6 | |
Devizes | 9 | ||
North Wiltshire | 13 | ||
Salisbury | 20 | ||
South West Wiltshire | 18 | ||
Wales 3 | Powys | Brecon and Radnorshire | 1 |
Montgomeryshire | 2 | ||
West Midlands (England) 196 | Coventry | Coventry North East | 1 |
Dudley | Halesowen and Rowley Regis | 1 | |
Herefordshire, County of | Hereford and South Herefordshire | 16 | |
North Herefordshire | 19 | ||
Shropshire CC | Ludlow | 26 | |
North Shropshire | 21 | ||
Shrewsbury and Atcham | 11 | ||
The Wrekin | 1 | ||
Solihull | Meriden | 4 | |
Staffordshire CC | Burton | 5 | |
Cannock Chase | 1 | ||
Lichfield | 10 | ||
South Staffordshire | 5 | ||
Stafford | 3 | ||
Staffordshire Moorlands | 3 | ||
Stone | 15 | ||
Tamworth | 2 | ||
Telford and Wrekin | The Wrekin | 6 | |
Walsall | Aldridge-Brownhills | 1 | |
Warwickshire | Kenilworth and Southam | 3 | |
North Warwickshire | 2 | ||
Nuneaton | 1 | ||
Rugby | 6 | ||
Stratford-on-Avon | 12 | ||
Wolverhampton | Wolverhampton South East | 1 | |
Worcestershire | Bromsgrove | 2 | |
Mid Worcestershire | 5 | ||
Redditch | 2 | ||
West Worcestershire | 8 | ||
Wyre Forest | 3 | ||
Yorkshire and The Humber 235 | Barnsley, Doncaster and Rotherham | Barnsley East | 1 |
Don Valley | 3 | ||
Doncaster North | 1 | ||
Penistone and Stocksbridge | 3 | ||
Rother Valley | 1 | ||
Wentworth and Dearne | 1 | ||
Bradford | Keighley | 3 | |
Calderdale and Kirklees | Calder Valley | 3 | |
Colne Valley | 4 | ||
Dewsbury | 2 | ||
East Riding of Yorkshire | Beverley and Holderness | 16 | |
Brigg and Goole | 2 | ||
East Yorkshire | 20 | ||
Haltemprice and Howden | 10 | ||
Leeds | Elmet and Rothwell | 4 | |
North and North East Lincolnshire | Brigg and Goole | 10 | |
Cleethorpes | 4 | ||
Scunthorpe | 2 | ||
North Yorkshire CC | Harrogate and Knaresborough | 6 | |
Richmond (Yorks) | 32 | ||
Scarborough and Whitby | 13 | ||
Selby and Ainsty | 11 | ||
Skipton and Ripon | 43 | ||
Thirsk and Malton | 31 | ||
Sheffield | Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough | 1 | |
Sheffield, Hallam | 1 | ||
Wakefield | Hemsworth | 1 | |
Wakefield | 3 | ||
York | York Outer | 3 | |
Unknown 2 | Unknown | Unknown | 2 |
Grand Total | 1980 | ||
Asked by: David Davis (Conservative - Haltemprice and Howden)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to support farmers in (a) Haltemprice and Howden constituency and (b) Yorkshire and the Humber.
Answered by George Eustice
Farmers currently have access to a range of support measures, including direct payments under the CAP. We have published the Agriculture Bill that sets out how we will support the industry as we leave the EU and this includes rewarding farmers for delivering public goods.
We would expect farmers in Yorkshire and Humber to participate in the scheme and to be able to apply for the wider support we intend to make available to farmers through the Bill.
Asked by: David Davis (Conservative - Haltemprice and Howden)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to support the farming and agriculture industry in (a) the UK, (b) Yorkshire and the Humber and (c) Haltemprice and Howden constituency.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
Farming has a bright future outside the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy. The Great Yorkshire Show demonstrated the strengths that British farming has to offer with a record-breaking number of entries for sheep and cattle, and great produce from Wensleydale cheese to North Yorkshire game.
I know very well the importance of supporting these farmers in Yorkshire and Humber, home to my own constituency and farm, as well as my Rt Hon friend’s constituency, Haltemprice and Howden. As we prepare to leave the EU, the UK Government is taking a number of steps to support our farmers and industry in England and across the UK.
For the UK as a whole, the Government has pledged to continue to commit the same cash total in funds for farm support until the end of this Parliament, expected in 2022; this includes all funding provided for farm support under both Pillar 1 and Pillar 2 of the current Common Agricultural Policy.
The Government has also guaranteed that any projects where funding has been agreed before the end of 2020 will be funded for their full lifetime. This means, in the event the UK leaves the EU with no deal, the UK Government would fund any remaining payments to farmers, land managers and rural businesses due after October 2019. This would ensure continued funding for these projects until they finish. The guarantee also means that Defra and the devolved administrations can continue to sign new projects after the UK leaves the EU during 2019 and 2020.
As agriculture is devolved, each administration will have the flexibility to develop agricultural policy suited to their own unique circumstances, once the UK has left the EU. It is for the Scottish, Welsh and future Northern Ireland Governments to decide upon future agricultural policies for their respective nations.
For farmers in England, the Agriculture Bill marks a decisive shift in our support. We will create an ambitious new system based on paying “public money for public goods”. Public goods will include improving air and water quality, and habitats for wildlife. By paying for things the public value, we can also improve animal welfare and reduce the use of antibiotics in our food chain. Financial support for innovations like precision farming can help farmers become more productive, reduce the use of expensive chemicals and protect the environment.
Critically, our Agriculture Bill also includes a seven year transition period of 2021–2027 for Direct Payments to help farmers in England to plan for the future. In the meantime direct payments for 2019 and 2020 will be made on the same basis as they are now, with simplifications where possible.
Asked by: David Davis (Conservative - Haltemprice and Howden)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent steps his Department has taken to support farming in Yorkshire and the Humber.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
The Government has pledged to continue to support farmers financially by committing the same cash total in funds for farm support until the end of this Parliament, expected in 2022. This includes all funding provided for farm support under both Pillar 1 and Pillar 2 of the current Common Agricultural Policy. We are working across Government to develop future funding arrangements.
Our plans for farming and for supporting farmers as the UK leaves the EU are underpinned by the Agriculture Bill. The Bill is a central part of the Government’s programme of legislation to deliver as smooth a departure as possible and achieve a green withdrawal from the EU. At the heart of our new policy in England will be a system that pays public money for public goods, rewarding farmers such as those in Yorkshire and Humber for creating habitats for wildlife while improving air and water quality.