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Written Question
Hedges and Ditches: Regulation
Wednesday 15th May 2024

Asked by: Paul Beresford (Conservative - Mole Valley)

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what guidance his Department has issued on how the new regulations on hedge cutting apply to commercial hedgelaying.

Answered by Mark Spencer

Subject to Parliamentary approval, the hedge-cutting rules in the Management of Hedgerows (England) Regulations 2024 will apply to commercial hedge-laying only where it takes place on agricultural land. The Rural Payments Agency as regulator will provide advice and guidance to all those who will need to comply with these new regulations. Full guidance will also be published on gov.uk.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 18 Oct 2018
Oral Answers to Questions

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 18 Oct 2018
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"I think we will continue with the procedures we have used before and pick the suitable candidate to do the suitable work on the basis of a number of measures...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 18 Oct 2018
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"Sorry—this must be something to do with my antipodean background—but could the hon. Gentleman please repeat the question, because I did not follow it?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 18 Oct 2018
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 18 Oct 2018
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 18 Oct 2018
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 18 Oct 2018
Oral Answers to Questions

"My cynicism matches the hon. Lady’s cynicism, but it is a trial. I shall write to her with the actual figures because I was not able to get them, although I was staggered to find out that the service gives parents in the House the opportunity to access 1,450 nurseries, …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 17 May 2018
Plastic Bottles and Coffee Cups

"I congratulate the hon. Member for Wakefield (Mary Creagh) on securing this debate. Incidentally, all the chopsticks that are used in my home are reusable and washed, and most have been going for around 30 years. This debate is overdue; I say that having read some years ago about the …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 15 Nov 2016
Circular Economy: Leftover Paint

"As the hon. Lady may have heard before the start of the debate, the British Coatings Federation is headquartered in my constituency and, unsurprisingly, I have been nailed to the floor several times on this issue. She is right: what we need to do is get a critical mass of …..."
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