Written Question
Tuesday 24th May 2016
Asked by:
Graham Stuart (Conservative - Beverley and Holderness)
Question
to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to speed up the process enabling UK pig producers to export trotters to China.
Answered by George Eustice
Defra has submitted detailed information required by the Chinese authorities, which they are reviewing. The UK Agriculture, Food and Drink Counsellor, based in Beijing, has met with the Chinese authorities to raise the importance of this agreement and we continue to press for expeditious consideration of the UK application to allow exports of UK pigs’ trotters to commence as soon as possible.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 06 Jan 2016
Flooding
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 06 Jan 2016
Flooding
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 06 Jan 2016
Flooding
"Does the hon. Lady not agree that my hon. Friend the Member for Brigg and Goole (Andrew Percy) is right? It does not matter who is in government, the pressure for flood defence goes away when there has not been flooding for a while and there is competition with schools …..."Graham Stuart - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 06 Jan 2016
Flooding
"There has been a rather tedious backwards and forwards about the money. The fundamentals are that this Government are spending more on flood defence. Once we get over that attempt at point scoring, which sadly comes relentlessly from the Labour party, we can move on to the more important question, …..."Graham Stuart - View Speech
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Written Question
Monday 21st December 2015
Asked by:
Graham Stuart (Conservative - Beverley and Holderness)
Question
to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she plans to take to make the certification process for the Basic Payment Scheme more efficient for farmers; and if she will include further accountability bodies who are able to certify active farmer status to improve efficiency of that scheme.
Answered by George Eustice
We are considering what changes are required to the administration of the Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) next year, taking into account the feedback we have received from farmers and experience from the first year of implementation.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 15 Dec 2015
Climate Change and Flooding
"I apologise to my right hon. Friend for returning to the subject of flooding when she has—rightly—just moved on to the subject of climate change, but does she agree that it is now time for a radical change in the way in which we fund our flood infrastructure and maintenance? …..."Graham Stuart - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 15 Dec 2015
Climate Change and Flooding
"My right hon. Friend knows that local MPs supported a proposal to the Department seeking about £1 billion to help the Humber area, which faces the second greatest strategic risk in the country, after London. What plans does the Department have to work on coming up with a viable programme …..."Graham Stuart - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 15 Dec 2015
Climate Change and Flooding
"It is a pleasure to take part in this debate, following as it does the excellent news from Paris and the rather more depressing news of recent flooding.
I have just lost two of my favourite Ministers from the Front Bench—although they are staying for a moment—but I have another …..."Graham Stuart - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 15 Dec 2015
Climate Change and Flooding
"The hon. Gentleman is right to make those points. Quite a lot of the progress that has been made in the past five or six years was built on that, but in the 13 years of Labour Government remarkably little progress was made. If we compare the investment environment in …..."Graham Stuart - View Speech
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