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registered interest false more like this
date less than 2024-01-24more like thismore than 2024-01-24
answering body
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs more like this
answering dept id 13 more like this
answering dept short name Environment, Food and Rural Affairs more like this
answering dept sort name Environment, Food and Rural Affairs more like this
hansard heading Agriculture: Subsidies more like this
house id 1 more like this
legislature
25259
pref label House of Commons more like this
question text To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the environmental impact of the end of cross-compliance regulations for rural payments on (a) hedgerows, (b) soil cover and (c) watercourse buffer strips. more like this
tabling member constituency Brighton, Pavilion more like this
tabling member printed
Caroline Lucas more like this
uin 11302 more like this
answer
answer
is ministerial correction false more like this
date of answer less than 2024-02-06more like thismore than 2024-02-06
answer text <p>An assessment of the environmental and economic impacts of the removal of direct payments and cross compliance was published in September 2018, during the passage of the Agriculture Bill.</p><p> </p><p>We will seek to regulate to maintain hedgerow protections when parliamentary time allows. The gaps between cross compliance rules and regulatory requirements in regard to water buffer strips and soil cover are either mitigated by regulation such as through generalised provisions in Farming Rules for Water and the Water Resources Act, guidance like the Code of Practice of the use of Plant Protection Products, and standards in the Sustainable Farming Incentive scheme.</p> more like this
answering member constituency Sherwood more like this
answering member printed Mark Spencer more like this
question first answered
less than 2024-02-06T17:21:47.807Zmore like thismore than 2024-02-06T17:21:47.807Z
answering member
4055
label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer more like this
tabling member
3930
label Biography information for Caroline Lucas more like this