To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to extend farm tenancies under the Agricultural Holdings Act 1986 and the Agricultural Tenancies Act 1995.
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Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Farms: Tenancy Agreements
Asked 6 February 2023
Answered 15 February 2023
By Lord Benyon (Conservative, Life peer)
Answered
Lords
Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Farms: Tenancy Agreements
To ask His Majesty's Government when the Tenancy Reform Industry Group (TRIG) will report on farm tenancy agreements.
Asked 6 February 2023
Answered 15 February 2023
By Lord Benyon (Conservative, Life peer)
Answered
Lords
Question for Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Broadband and Mobile Phones: Rural Areas
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of (1) broadband, and (2) mobile phone, connectivity in rural areas.
Asked 25 January 2023
Answered 8 February 2023
By Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (Conservative, Life peer)
Answered
Lords
Question for Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
5G
To ask His Majesty's Government what proportion of (1) rural, and (2) non-rural, areas have 5G network coverage.
Asked 25 January 2023
Answered 8 February 2023
By Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (Conservative, Life peer)
Answered
Lords
Question for Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Electricity: Prices
To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have (1) to reduce the standing charge on domestic household bills, and (2) to charge this to the recent profits announced by electricity distribution companies.
Asked 31 January 2023
Answered 8 February 2023
By Lord Callanan (Conservative, Life peer)
Answered
Lords
Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Horses: Exports
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the requirements placed on the movement of horses between the UK and France; and what progress they have made on negotiating a tripartite agreement for the free movement of horses between I...
Asked 25 January 2023
Answered 3 February 2023
By Lord Benyon (Conservative, Life peer)
Answered
Lords
Question for Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Energy: Meters
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of (1) the impact of the severe cold weather on vulnerable households, and (2) the ability of those residents on pre-payment meters to pay their energy bills.
Asked 16 January 2023
Answered 30 January 2023
By Lord Callanan (Conservative, Life peer)
Answered
Lords
Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Farms: Tenants
To ask His Majesty's Government how many farms were in tenanted occupation in each of the last five years.
Asked 12 January 2023
Answered 26 January 2023
By Lord Benyon (Conservative, Life peer)
Answered
Lords
Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Environmental Land Management Schemes
To ask His Majesty's Government how tenant farms will benefit under the Environmental Land Management Schemes.
Asked 12 January 2023
Answered 26 January 2023
By Lord Benyon (Conservative, Life peer)
Answered
Lords
Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Land Drainage
To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to bring into force Schedule 3 of the Flood and Water Management Act 2010.
Asked 11 January 2023
Answered 25 January 2023
By Lord Benyon (Conservative, Life peer)
Answered
Lords
Question for Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Housing: Construction
To ask His Majesty's Government how many (1) one, and (2) two, bedroom homes have been built in (a) urban, and (b) rural, areas in each of the last three years in England.
Asked 16 January 2023
Answered 24 January 2023
By Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Conservative, Life peer)
Answered
Lords
Question for Department for International Trade
Overseas Trade
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the most recent UK trade figures published by the ONS on 12 October; and in particular, the decrease in imports and exports with non-EU countries.
Asked 21 December 2022
Answered 12 January 2023
By Lord Johnson of Lainston (Conservative, Life peer)
Answered
Lords
Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Environmental Land Management Schemes
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the ability of tenant farmers to benefit from Environmental Land Management Schemes.
Asked 5 December 2022
Answered 30 December 2022
By Lord Benyon (Conservative, Life peer)
Answered
Lords
Question for Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Energy: Meters
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of the severe cold weather on (1) vulnerable households, and (2) the ability of those residents on pre-payment meters to access Government help with household bills; and what ste...
Asked 13 December 2022
Answered 29 December 2022
By Lord Callanan (Conservative, Life peer)
Answered
Lords
Question for Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Buildings: Energy
To ask His Majesty's Government what progress they have made using building regulations to improve the energy resilience of properties.
Asked 14 December 2022
Answered 28 December 2022
By Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Conservative, Life peer)
Answered
Lords
Question for Department for Transport
Railways: Repairs and Maintenance
To ask His Majesty's Government whether the planned improvements by Network Rail over the Christmas period will still take place given the industrial action at that time.
Asked 20 December 2022
Answered 22 December 2022
By Baroness Vere of Norbiton (Conservative, Life peer)
Answered
Lords
Question for Treasury
Bank Services: Rural Areas
To ask His Majesty's Government what data they collect on the average distances a resident in a rural community must travel to access (1) a bank, and (2) a cash machine.
Asked 15 December 2022
Answered 21 December 2022
By Lord Harlech (Conservative, Excepted Hereditary)
Answered
Lords
Question for Treasury
Cash Dispensing: Rural Areas
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the access to cash in rural areas for (1) vulnerable residents, such as the elderly and infirm, and (2) small businesses.
Asked 15 December 2022
Answered 21 December 2022
By Lord Harlech (Conservative, Excepted Hereditary)
Answered
Lords
Question for Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Groceries Code Adjudicator
To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they will take to ensure the continuation of the independent Groceries Code Adjudicator; and whether they plan to extend the role to allow the adjudicator to open an investigation on their own initiative.
Asked 5 December 2022
Answered 19 December 2022
By Lord Callanan (Conservative, Life peer)
Answered
Lords
Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Land Drainage
To ask His Majesty's Government when they intend to bring fully into force Schedule 3 to the Flood and Water Management Act 2010.
Asked 24 November 2022
Answered 8 December 2022
By Lord Benyon (Conservative, Life peer)
Answered
Lords