| Heading: |
Agriculture: Land Use |
| Question ID: |
1809568 |
| UIN: |
HL8096 |
| House: |
Lords |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-04 |
| Asking Member ID: |
2594 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Lord Cromwell
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Lord Cromwell
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of (1) biodiversity, and (2) the opportunities to intensify agricultural land use where other incentives are deemed uncompetitive, in upland areas relative to lowland areas. |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-17 |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4395 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Baroness Hayman of Ullock
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| Answering Member handle: |
suehayman1
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@suehayman1
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| Answer text: |
The uplands are nationally and internationally important for biodiversity, and have significant agricultural, landscape, archaeological, recreational, cultural and natural resource value. We recognise the unique challenges that upland farmers face. In ord... |
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| Answering body ID: |
13 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs |
| Tweeted: |
true |