Written Question
Wednesday 19th April 2023
Asked by:
Peter Bone (Independent - Wellingborough)
Question
to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions she has had with Cabinet colleagues on extending the list of energy and trade intensive industries that are eligible for a higher level of energy support to include horticulture and poultry businesses.
Answered by Mark Spencer
Defra officials and Ministers have worked closely with counterparts across Government on the Energy Bill Relief Scheme and Energy and Trade Intensive Industries (ETII) support since the Government started to support business energy prices in Autumn 2022, raising the energy needs of businesses in our sectors via cross Government discussions on design of the scheme and formal Write Round processes.
Written Question
Wednesday 19th April 2023
Asked by:
Peter Bone (Independent - Wellingborough)
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 with Cabinet colleagues to help support agricultural exports.
Answered by Mark Spencer
We are delivering our commitment to boost UK exports. We want people at home and abroad to be lining up to buy British.
We have expanded our agrifood attaché network from two to eleven locations around the world. They work to resolve market access barriers, reduce the complexity of trading requirements, and raise the profile of British products, enabling U.K. producers to tap into the growing international demand for our quality products.
The attachés work to drive export growth and help deliver on the opportunities created by new Free Trade Agreements.
Written Question
Wednesday 19th April 2023
Asked by:
Peter Bone (Independent - Wellingborough)
Question
to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of biosecurity checks on imported meat.
Answered by Mark Spencer
The Government published the Border Target Operating Model (TOM) ON 05 April 2023. In developing the TOM, we have designed a modern border with a simplified, effective, risk-based system of controls based on current assessments of risks to biosecurity. It will strike the appropriate balance between protecting the UK’s public health, food supply chains and natural environment, and setting a proportionate controls regime. The TOM will operate a more sophisticated approach to risk categorisation than the EU’s 3rd country model, with the intensity of controls calibrated to the level of risk presented by each commodity, and the country of origin. This will be underpinned independent and dynamic risk assessments which respond to changing risks. For high-risk and medium-risk goods, including POAO products in those categories, we will retain health certification and BCP inspection, albeit with frequently lower inspection rates than under the EU model.
Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 16 Mar 2022
South East Strategic Reservoir Option
"I will call Layla Moran to move the motion, and I will then call the Minister to respond. As is the convention for a 30-minute debate, there will not be an opportunity for the Member in charge to wind up...."Peter Bone - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 10 Mar 2022
Oral Answers to Questions
"8. To ask the hon. Member for City of Chester, representing the Speaker’s Committee on the Electoral Commission, if the Committee will make an assessment of the impartiality of the Electoral Commission. ..."Peter Bone - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 10 Mar 2022
Oral Answers to Questions
"I am grateful for the hon. Gentleman’s response. This week the former Speaker of the House of Commons got his comeuppance for being mean and unfair to a number of people, by bullying them and by using his power. The Electoral Commission was also mean and unfair to a number …..."Peter Bone - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 10 Mar 2022
Oral Answers to Questions
"May I say in passing how wonderful it is when we have a question session in which the people who reply are succinct and to the point. Perhaps we should get Ministers here for a lesson in how it is done. Will the Second Church Estates Commissioner tell us more …..."Peter Bone - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 10 Mar 2022
Oral Answers to Questions
"The right hon. Gentleman rightly told us in detail about what has been done, and the environment and roads point is really important. Could the work that has been done be published as soon as possible?..."Peter Bone - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 03 Feb 2022
Northern Ireland Border
"Following on from what the Secretary of State has just said, is it not extraordinary that 20% of the checks that the EU has with third countries are between Great Britain and Northern Ireland? It is even more crazy, because the vast majority of those goods are circulating within the …..."Peter Bone - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 27 Jan 2022
Oral Answers to Questions
"The hon. Gentleman is a serious and well informed person. Is the Bill, and the change in funding that is necessary, an opportunity to split the role of the Electoral Commission? It could concentrate on the administration of all elections, and a separate, independent body could deal with enforcement. That …..."Peter Bone - View Speech
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