The APPG will allow Members to learn more about the world of British Farming. Through engagements and visits to an array of sites across the industry, the APPG will encourage parliamentarians to develop greater understanding and appreciation for the vital role that farming plays to our nation’s health and economy.
1. Organic farming statistics 2019
26/10/2020 - Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
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Found: Organic farming statistics 2019
Annual statistics about the UK organic farming sector.
2. Farming is changing in England from 1 January 2021
30/11/2020 - Natural England
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Found:
Promotional material
Farming is changing in England from 1 January 2021
Information
3. Total income from farming in the UK forecast
11/12/2020 - Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
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Found: income from farming in the UK forecast
Annual forecast of total income from farming in the UK
4. Sustainable Farming Incentive scheme pilot: launch overview
10/03/2021 - Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
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Found:
Policy paper
Sustainable Farming Incentive scheme pilot: launch overview
Defra’s
5. Nature Friendly Farming Network - written evidence
13/02/2019 - Inquiry: Scrutiny of the draft Environment (Principles and Governance) Bill - Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee
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Found: Nature Friendly Farming NetworkWritten evidence submitted by the Nature Friendly Farming Network (NFFN)
1. Direct Payments to Farmers (Reductions and Simplifications) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2021
22/03/2021 - Lords Chamber
1: farmers will be able to apply for grants under the farming investment fund to help them invest in equipment - Speech Link
2: two English Tories not turn up to speak for the farming businesses in their constituencies? I am just amazed - Speech Link
2. Farming Community: Suicide
22/05/2019 - Commons Chamber
1: and on the communities that surround them. The farming community, not just in my constituency but right - Speech Link
2: Adjournment debate. I do not know whether he watches the farming programme on the BBC on Sunday night. On one or - Speech Link
3: when I asked the Minister about suicides in the farming community. I represent Strangford, which is a rural - Speech Link
3. Modern Farming and the Environment
12/03/2019 - Westminster Hall
1: House has considered the interdependence of modern farming and the environment.It is a pleasure to - Speech Link
2: the ultimate consumers of what we produce.Farming is integral to protecting habitats and wildlife - Speech Link
3: talk about this subject, given his expertise. Farming and crofting are crucial to the viability of my - Speech Link
4. Agricultural Transition Plan
08/12/2020 - Lords Chamber
1: payments and new incentives to reward farmers for farming more sustainably, creating space for nature on - Speech Link
2: environmental land management. The sustainable farming incentive will pay farmers for actions that they - Speech Link
3: stewardship scheme and opening the new sustainable farming incentive to every farmer from 2022 onwards. - Speech Link
5. Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations
12/11/2018 - Commons Chamber
1: that my Adjournment debate today is on intensive farming operations in the United Kingdom. I say this because - Speech Link
2: disease from intensive farming settings. According to Compassion in World Farming, there is strong evidence - Speech Link
3: environment in which we support sustainable farming, not over-farming, as we have seen in these concentrated - Speech Link
asked by: Olivia Blake
21/07/2020
... what steps his Department has taken to increase the amount of land which is organically farmed. 2. Dairy Farming
asked by: Lord Jones
17/03/2020
...To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their current estimate of the size of the UK dairy herd. 3. Arable Farming
asked by: Chris Grayling
10/09/2020
... what his policy is on requiring farmers to protect land for wildlife at the edge of fields under cultivation. 4. Hill Farming
asked by: Lord Jones
10/02/2020
...To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to enhance the prospects of hill farmers after Brexit. 5. Hill Farming
asked by: Lord Jones
06/02/2020
...To ask Her Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the number of hill farmers in England and Wales.
6 Current APPG Officers
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Fay Jones
Chair & Registered Contact
Conservative - Brecon and Radnorshire
Joined: 27th January 2021Dark Skies , Environment , Geographically Protected Foods , Wales in the World , Wood Panel Industry
Agroecology for Sustainable Food and Farming , Beer , Celtic Sea , Choice at the End of Life , Cleaning and Hygiene , Compassionate Politics , Energy Security , Fair Business Banking , Forestry and Tree Planting , France , Fuel Poverty and Energy Efficiency , Genetic Haemochromatosis , Geographically Protected Foods , Infant Feeding and Inequalities , Marine Energy , Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) , Netherlands , Reuniting Britain Post-Brexit , Thalidomide , University , Wales in the World , Western Sahara , Wood Panel Industry , Youth Employment
Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the UK (CANZUK) , Coalfield Communities , Infant Feeding and Inequalities , Media , Music Education , Ovarian Cancer , Perpetrators of Domestic Abuse , Premature and Sick Babies , Social Enterprise , State Pension Inequality for Women , Water , Women and Work , Wrestling
Access to Medicines and Medical Devices , Adult Social Care , Alevis , Bahá'í Faith , Beer , Blood Cancer , Carbon Monoxide , Cerebral Palsy , Christianity in the Holy Land , Cleaning and Hygiene , Coastal Communities , Dairy , Diabetes , Disability , Eggs, Pigs and Poultry , Energy Studies , Equitable Life Policyholders , Eye Health and Visual Impairment , Health in all Policies , Healthy Homes and Buildings , Heart Valve Disease , Hong Kong , International Freedom of Religion or Belief , Malawi , Marine Energy , Mentoring , Muscular Dystrophy , Obesity , Pakistani Minorities , Pancreatic Cancer , Pigeon Racing , Pro-Life , Professional Sales , Respiratory Health , Shooting and Conservation , Suicide and Self-Harm Prevention , Terminal Illness , Veterans , Vulnerable Groups to Pandemics , Wood Panel Industry
Contact Details
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Fay Jones MP, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA. Tel: 0207 219 3000.
Email: fay.jones.mp@parliament.uk
Public Enquiry Point:
Jack Evans, Office of Fay Jones MP. Tel: 020 7219 5212
Email: jack.evans@parliament.uk
Benefits in Kind
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PLMR
Secretariat From : 20/12/2017 To : 19/12/2018
£9,001
No direct financial benefits are on record for the Farming APPG
Former APPG Officers
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Julian Sturdy
Chair & Registered Contact
Conservative - York Outer
Joined: 31st January 2018Departed: 5th November 2019
Angela Smith
Vice Chair
Liberal Democrat - Former Member for Penistone and Stocksbridge
Joined: 31st January 2018Departed: 5th November 2019
Baroness Jones of Whitchurch
Vice Chair
Labour - Life peer
Joined: 8th May 2019Departed: 5th November 2019
Art, Craft and Design in Education , Science and Technology in Agriculture , Sustainable Resource
Bill Wiggin
Treasurer
Conservative - North Herefordshire
Joined: 31st January 2018Departed: 5th November 2019
John Lamont
Vice Chair
Conservative - Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk
Joined: 31st January 2018Departed: 5th November 2019
Kirstene Hair
Vice Chair
Conservative - Former Member for Angus
Joined: 31st January 2018Departed: 5th November 2019
Andrew Bowie
Vice Chair
Conservative - West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine
Joined: 31st January 2018Departed: 5th November 2019
Armed Forces Covenant , BBC , Brazil , Foreign Affairs , Green Deal Misselling , Hong Kong , Marine Energy , Montserrat , Pitcairn Islands , Single Parent Families , Sweden , Technology and National Security
Bingo
Baroness Byford
Vice Chair
Conservative - Retired on 5 May 2020
Joined: 31st January 2018Departed: 5th November 2019
Earl of Lindsay
Vice Chair
Conservative - Excepted Hereditary
Joined: 31st January 2018Departed: 5th November 2019
Blockchain , Fair Business Banking , Islamic Finance , Open Banking and Payments , Science and Technology in Agriculture