Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

– in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 7 July 2016.

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The Secretary of State was asked—

  • Farming Businesses: Resilience (12 speeches)

    What assistance the Government have given farming businesses to increase their resilience.

  • Endangered Species: Hunting Trophies (8 speeches)

    What steps the Government are taking to prevent hunting trophies from threatened or endangered species being imported to the UK.

  • Rural Development Programmes (19 speeches)

    What assessment she has made of the potential effect of the UK leaving the EU on rural development programmes.

  • Data: Public Availability (8 speeches)

    What progress her Department and its agencies have made on making data publicly available in the last 12 months.

  • Regional Food and Drink (18 speeches)

    What recent steps the Great British Food Unit has taken to promote regional food and drink.

  • Badger Culls (4 speeches)

    What assessment she has made of the effectiveness of recent badger culls.

  • Farmers: Support Payments (6 speeches)

    If the Government will underwrite basic payment scheme payments at current levels until the end of 2020.

  • Food Prices (4 speeches)

    What assessment she has made of recent trends in food prices.

  • Apprenticeships (4 speeches)

    What recent steps the Government have taken to work with industry to increase the number of apprenticeships in the food, farming and agri-technology sector.

  • Topical Questions (34 speeches)

    If she will make a statement on her departmental responsibilities.

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