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Written questions

Daniel Zeichner

1,768 written questions tabled, most recent first.

2 Sep 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agricultural Products: Imports

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what body has responsibility for testing produce that enters the UK.

2 Sep 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agricultural Products: Imports

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many Border Control Points are planned to be (a) approved or (b) developed in the next 12 months; and where those points will be located.

2 Sep 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agricultural Products: Imports

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many Border Control Points were operational on 2 September 2022; where each of those points was located; and whether those points were fully staffed and funded.

13 Jul 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Environmental Land Management Schemes

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much and what proportion of his Departmental budget has been allocated to (a) the Environmental Land Management Scheme, (b) the Sustainable Farming Incentive, (c) Local Nature Reco

11 Jul 2022 · Treasury

Individual Savings Accounts

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of raising the £450,000 property value limit for the Lifetime ISA in line with house prices.

6 Jul 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Bovine Tuberculosis: Disease Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much the Government has spent on (a) bovine TB cattle vaccination programme and (b) all other bovine TB-related work.

4 Jul 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Food: Public Sector

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the public sector is spending 50 per cent of its food budget on sustainable, organic and locally grown produce that meets animal welf

4 Jul 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Landscape Recovery Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what budget has been allocated to the Landscape Recovery scheme.

29 Jun 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Parish and Town Councils

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment his Department has made of the number of inquorate parish councils as of 29 June 2022.

29 Jun 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Bovine Tuberculosis: Disease Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 23 June 2022 to Question 19626 on Bovine Tuberculosis: Disease Control, how that expenditure was allocated in each financial year since 2013-14.

29 Jun 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Bovine Tuberculosis: Disease Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the impact of controlled shootings of badgers on the welfare of that animal population.

29 Jun 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Bovine Tuberculosis: Disease Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the impact the badger cull on levels of bovine tuberculosis among cattle.

29 Jun 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Sustainable Farming Incentive

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the total amount of Sustainable Farming Incentive payments to farmers in 2022.

29 Jun 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agriculture: Subsidies

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the answer of 26 April to question 9907, what estimate he has made of the value of payments in excess (a) £100,000 (b) £200,000 (c) £250,000 (d) £500,000 in Basic Payments

28 Jun 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Sustainable Farming Incentive: Organic Food

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what his planned timetable is for introducing the advanced level of the Sustainable Farming Incentive organic standard.

28 Jun 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Sustainable Farming Incentive: Organic Food

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with representatives of the organic food sector on the Sustainable Farming Incentive's organic standard.

28 Jun 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Sustainable Farming Incentive: Organic Food

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, for what reason the date of introduction for the Sustainable Farming Incentive organic food standard is not until 2025.

27 Jun 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agriculture: Seasonal Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department has taken to promote seasonal agricultural work to UK citizens.

27 Jun 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agriculture: Seasonal Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions on promoting seasonal agricultural work to UK citizens.

27 Jun 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Horticulture and Poultry: Seasonal Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the evidential basis is for his Department's decision that the appropriate number of operators for the seasonal worker visa route is five horticultural operators and two poultry o

27 Jun 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agriculture: Seasonal Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential effect of current trends in the supply of seasonal workers on domestic food production.

27 Jun 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agriculture: Seasonal Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential financial effect of current trends in the supply of seasonal workers on agricultural businesses.

27 Jun 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agriculture: Seasonal Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an estimate of the potential effect of current trends in the supply of seasonal agricultural workers on crop yields this summer.

27 Jun 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agriculture: Seasonal Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate his Department has made of the number of seasonal worker vacancies in the UK as of 27 June 2022.

27 Jun 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agriculture: Seasonal Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of making 40,000 visas available for seasonal workers on the labour needs of the agricultural sector.

27 Jun 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agriculture: Seasonal Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will publish the research his Department conducted to determine that approximately 50,000 workers are employed seasonally on UK farms.

27 Jun 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Horticulture: Seasonal Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the answer of 17 June 2022 to Question 9902, on what basis his Department estimated that between 50,000 and 60,000 seasonal workers are needed annually across the horticult

27 Jun 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agriculture: Seasonal Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many workers had successfully obtained visas through the 2021 Seasonal Worker visa route as of 27 June 2021; and how many of those workers were residing in the UK.

27 Jun 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agriculture: Seasonal Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many workers have successfully obtained visas through the 2022 Seasonal Workers visa route as of 27 June 2022; and how many of those workers are residing in the UK.

24 Jun 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agriculture: Subsidies

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much funding his Department paid to farmers in (a) direct payments, (b) Countryside Stewardship funding, (c) Environmental Stewardship Scheme funding, (d) other payments and (e) in

Source: official written-questions record.