Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 35348

Agriculture: Subsidies

Tabled: 4 March 2025
Answered: 11 March 2025

Question

Andrew Bowie

ConservativeWest Aberdeenshire and Kincardine

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of not extending the Fruit and Vegetable Aid Scheme in England and Wales.

Answer

Daniel Zeichner
The Fruit and Vegetable Aid Scheme is an EU legacy scheme, and in England, legislation is in place to close the scheme to English POs on 31 December 2025. The Government has committed to championing British farming, whilst protecting the environment, and ...

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