Found: These certifi cates have a maximum notional value and are traded or sold to energy suppliers.
Jan. 10 2024
Source Page: Carbon capture, usage and storage (CCUS) deployment: Track-1 expansion: HyNet clusterFound: Carbon capture, usage and storage (CCUS) deployment: Track-1 expansion: HyNet cluster
Written Evidence Nov. 28 2023
Inquiry: Education and Careers in Land-based SectorsFound: ECL0044 - Education and Careers in Land-based Sectors Lincoln Institute for Agri-Food and Technology,
Found: We also examine and report on the value for money of how public money has been spent.
Asked by: Lord Framlingham (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask His Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the fall in overall domestic beef production resulting from the proposed changes in agricultural policies and payments.
Answered by Lord Douglas-Miller - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
The British beef sector is highly resilient and plays a significant role in the production of high- quality meat for both the domestic market and for export. It operates in an open market and the value of commodities is established by those in the supply chain. The government continues to work closely with the beef industry and to monitor the impacts of the range of commercial, environmental and market related factors which influence a farmer’s decision to rear beef.
The UK has a high degree of food security, built on supply from diverse sources, strong domestic production as well as imports through stable trade routes. We produce 60% of all the food we need, and 73% of food which we can grow or rear in the UK for all or part of the year. These figures have changed little over the last 20 years: historical production figures, including for the commodities you reference, can be found in “Agriculture in the United Kingdom”, a publication of annual statistics about agriculture in the United Kingdom at GOV.UK. UK consumers have access through international trade to food products that cannot be produced here, or at least not on a year-round basis. This supplements domestic production, and also ensures that any disruption from risks such as adverse weather or disease does not affect the UK's overall security of supply.
Domestically, the Government has committed to broadly maintain the current level of food we produce. This includes sustainably boosting production in sectors where there are post-Brexit opportunities, including horticulture and seafood, and the Agriculture Act imposes a duty on the Secretary of State to have regard to the need to encourage environmentally sustainable food production. Our farming reforms aim to support a highly productive food producing sector by supporting farmers to manage land in a way that improves food production and is more environmentally sustainable, and by paying farmers to produce public goods such as water quality, biodiversity, animal health and welfare and climate change mitigation, alongside food production.
Speaking at the recent National Farmers Union Conference in Birmingham, the Prime Minister and the Environment Secretary announced a range of measures to boost productivity and resilience in the sector, including the largest ever grant offer for farmers in the coming financial year, expected to total £427 million. This includes doubling investment in productivity schemes, bolstering schemes such as the Improving Farming Productivity grant, which provides support for farmers to invest in automation and robotics, as well as solar installations to build on-farm energy security. The Prime Minister also announced a new annual UK-wide Food Security Index, which will capture and present the data needed to monitor levels of food security, and announced plans to hold the Farm to Fork Summit annually.
Jan. 10 2024
Source Page: Carbon capture, usage and storage (CCUS) deployment: Track-1 expansion: HyNet clusterFound: Carbon capture, usage and storage (CCUS) deployment: Track-1 expansion: HyNet cluster
Mentions:
1: Sarah Dyke (LD - Somerton and Frome) That definition is built on four pillars: supply, access, supply stability and nutritional value. - Speech Link
2: Jamie Stone (LD - Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross) Farmers in my constituency have made the point that when a carbon capture audit is done of a farm, the - Speech Link
3: Robbie Moore (Con - Keighley) land through carbon sequestration are taken into account. - Speech Link
4: Robbie Moore (Con - Keighley) Member for Somerton and Frome referred to the land use framework. - Speech Link
May. 15 2024
Source Page: TS10 5QW, Net Zero Teesside Power Limited: environmental permit issued - EPR/PP3501LR/A001Found: “activities”). 2.2 The site 2.2.1 The activities shall not extend beyond the site, being the land
May. 14 2024
Source Page: Board of Commissioners meeting, 12 December 2023Found: UK commercial forest resources may not match future value chains 14.
Written Evidence Nov. 28 2023
Inquiry: Education and Careers in Land-based SectorsFound: ECL0026 - Education and Careers in Land-based Sectors Horticultural Trades Association Written Evidence