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date	24/01/2024
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: Subsidies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
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.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	11302
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2024 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> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 06/02/2024 17:21:47 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

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date	12/10/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Action on Smoking and Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the merits of the grant application for funding received by his Department from Action on Smoking and Health; and if he will place in the Library details of the basis on which that assessment was made.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	11302
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2015 answer text <p>Recommendations to Ministers for funding are only made once an assessment of the proposal has been made by officials against standard business case criteria which consist of a Strategic Case, Economic Case, Financial Case, Commercial Case and Project Governance.</p><br /><p>The assessments undertaken in the awarding of grants to Action on Smoking and Health contain policy advice to Ministers and so are not made public.</p><br /><p>A grant application is currently under assessment and a decision on funding has not yet been made.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 20/10/2015 14:48:12 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies