Tim Farron

19 Dec 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Countryside Stewardship Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to increase payment rates for the (a) Higher Level Stewardship and (b) Upland Entry Level Stewardship schemes.

19 Dec 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Sustainable Farming Incentive

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much his Department spent in sustainable farming incentive payments excluding pilot schemes in the financial year 2022-2023.

8 Dec 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agriculture: Floods

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what financial support is available to farmers who have just lost their harvests due to flooding since 1 January 2023.

8 Dec 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agriculture: Flood Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if his Department will take steps to implement a comprehensive agricultural water management strategy.

8 Dec 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agriculture: Flood Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department has taken to reduce the proportion of Grade 1 agricultural land at high risk of flooding.

8 Dec 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agriculture: Flood Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what proportion of agricultural land at each agricultural land classification grade was at (a) risk and (b) high risk of flooding in each of the last five years.

8 Dec 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agriculture: Flood Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what funding his Department has provided to mitigate flooding on agricultural land in each year since 2018.

8 Dec 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Food Supply: Climate Change

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to help increase food security in the context of trends in the level of flooding brought about by climate change.

8 Dec 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agriculture: Flood Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much funding his Department has provided to farmers for the implementation of flood prevention solutions on their farms in each of the last five years.

8 Dec 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Flood Control: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to his Department's policy statement entitled Flood and coastal erosion risk management, published in July 2020, how much and what proportion of the £5.2 billion of fund

8 Dec 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Food Supply: Committees

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the publication by the Agricultural Industries Confederation entitled Powering productivity for sustainable food security, published on 15 November 2023, whether he p

30 Nov 2023 · Home Office

Asylum: Temporary Accommodation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he plans to take steps to provide women-only accommodation for women seeking asylum.

30 Nov 2023 · Home Office

Asylum: Hotels

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether his Department has published guidance on the treatment of women seeking asylum who are accommodated in hotels.

30 Nov 2023 · Home Office

Asylum: Hotels

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many women seeking asylum are accommodated in hotels as of 30 November 2023.

29 Nov 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Databases

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the award criteria were for the Federated Data Platform contract.

21 Nov 2023 · Home Office

Asylum: Advisory Services

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 20 November 2023 to Question 1324 on Asylum: Advisory Services and with reference to paragraph 2.3 of the Terms and Conditions for the Advice, Issue Reporting and Eligibility

10 Nov 2023 · Home Office

Asylum: Advisory Services

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has taken steps to extend the Advice, Issue Reporting and Eligibility contract beyond August 2023.

8 Nov 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Refugees: Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Answer of 23 October 2023 to Question 201819 on Refugees: Finance, what guidance his Department has issued to Job Centre staff on the ability of a refugee to make a claim for Unive

8 Nov 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Refugees: Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Answer of 23 October 2023 to Question 201819 on Refugees: Finance, whether someone with refugee status may make an application for Universal Credit before they have received their

7 Nov 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Sewage: Waste Disposal

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when her Department last revised permit conditions for storm overflows.

7 Nov 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Biometric Residence Permits

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department has issued guidance to Job Centre staff on the fact that a refugee does not need to have received their Biometric Residence Permit before making a claim for Universal Credit.

7 Nov 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Flood Control: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Answer of 24 January 2023 to Question 123903 on Flood Control: Finance, what assessment her Department has made with the Environment Agency of the potential impac

7 Nov 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Flood Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Answer of 24 January 2023 to Question 123903 on Flood Control: Finance, how many properties have been protected by the Government's flood defence scheme since Apr

7 Nov 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Communication

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many full-time staff worked in Defra Group Communications in each year since 2019.

7 Nov 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Communication

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the cost to the public purse was of her Department's total spend on communications for (a) 2023, (b) 2022, (c) 2021, (d) 2020 and (e) 2019.

7 Nov 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Sewage: Waste Disposal

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many sewage discharges there were by each water firm on days when no rain fell in 2022.

20 Oct 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Prostate Cancer: Health Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what publicity campaigns (a) have taken place and (b) are planned for the prostate cancer risk management programme.

13 Oct 2023 · Home Office

Refugees: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions her Department held with local authorities before the change in practice of calculating the 28 days prior to asylum support ending for new refugees to when the asylum application deci

13 Oct 2023 · Home Office

Refugees: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of starting the move-on period for refugees granted asylum when they receive notice of their asylum decision on (a) refugees and (b) local authorit

13 Oct 2023 · Home Office

Asylum: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's news story of 12 September 2023 entitled New Illegal Migration Act measures and age dispute assessment tests, whether the consultations with local authorities and or