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90837

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	date	05/09/2014
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	hansard heading	Agriculture
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will discuss with her counterparts in the devolved administrations the need for discussions with the European Commission on the development of a relief package for farmers and the UK beef industry; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	South Down
	tabling member printed	Ms Margaret Ritchie
	uin	208444
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Defra Ministers have been in regular contact with their colleagues in the devolved administrations. My officials discuss and agree a negotiating position with each of the devolved administrations prior to any EU discussions on the current unpredictability of beef markets.</p><p><br></p><p>In July, I hosted a “beef summit”. This was a positive meeting with senior representatives from across the UK’s food and farming industry, including Northern Irish, Scottish and Welsh farming industry bodies, to ensure that we have a sustainable and profitable UK beef industry for the future. The outcomes included the decision by producers and processors to work together on a voluntary code of conduct on improving transparency of the charges that some abattoirs make for handling carcases and notice periods for changes to product specifications. The European Commission Short Term Outlook expects beef prices to remain firm although below the 2013 record highs.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 11/09/2014 15:38:55 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice previous answer version 19395 answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
	tabling member	4130 label Biography information for Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick

90839

	registered interest
	date	05/09/2014
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	hansard heading	Agriculture: Bureaucracy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many of the Macdonald Review's recommendations for regulation reduction have been implemented to date.
	tabling member constituency	North Herefordshire
	tabling member printed	Bill Wiggin
	uin	208436
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2014 answer text <p>In its final report published on 9 April, the independent Farming Regulation Task Force noted that Defra had made “significant” progress against the 137 commitments made by the Government in 2012. Building on these commitments, Defra has also announced through the Red Tape Challenge programme its intention to simplify agricultural regulation by scrapping 156 regulations and improving 134 others. Work is also underway to identify further opportunities to reduce the burden on compliant farmers, including through improving risk based targeted farm inspections. I expect the majority of this work to be completed by the end of this year, with implementation proposals for consideration by Ministers.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 13/10/2014 15:22:33 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice previous answer version 19394 answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
	tabling member	1428 label Biography information for Sir Bill Wiggin