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Penrith and The Border MP has quizzed the preferred candidate of new water regulator Ofwat.

Scottish red meat processors have accused Westminster of leaving them to "fight a lone battle" to find enough skilled workers.

The warning comes amid claims that International Trade Secretary Liz Truss is trying to railroad the controversial agreement through before a promised watchdog is up and running.

Penrith MP Neil Hudson A committee of MPs has written to the Government calling for clarification and scrutiny of the Australia trade agreement which it says is causing distress and concern in the farming community. The chairman of the House of Commons Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee has today written to the International Trade Secretary Liz Truss, calling for any agreement in principle with Australia to be published as soon as it is signed off.  The committee highlight ...

MEMBERS of Parliament have called for urgent action to remove export barriers four months into the disastrous hard Brexit engineered and executed by Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his associates. The MPs wrote that “businesses exporting seafood and meat to the European Union have faced substantial new red tape requirements and checks at the border, known as non-tariff barriers, where previously there were none”. It is lamentable that the border records system is not digitised, and t...

By Henry Sandercock2021-04-29T08:50:00+01:00 Source: Seafish Parliament’s Efra committee said the major barriers to trade could see meat and seafood jobs exported to the EU The government has been urged by MPs to adopt a pragmatic approach in discussions with the EU in a bid to reduce the red tape faced by British seafood and meat exporters. In a new report, the Commons Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee said the “substantive” and costly barriers to trade since Brexit...

BBC News Published image copyrightReuters The government should create a food security minister to ensure continued progress in helping feed poverty-hit people, according to MPs. A report from the Commons Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee says progress made during the pandemic should be maintained as lockdown eases. Ministers mobilised their departments during the pandemic, "but this impetus needs to be sustained," MPs say. And the government should consider enshrining in law a "rig...

Lacks ambition: MPs urge government to step up efforts to tackle air pollution Public Health England has classified air pollution as the top environmental threat to public health Latest report from the House of Commons Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (EFRA) Committee warns the UKs current strategy to combat air pollution needs to be beefed up MPs have today urged the government to set tougher air pollution targets to help tackle widespread health inequalities and address the risk of a surge...

Farmers should be 'appropriately incentivised' when participating in natural flood management initiatives such as allowing land to flood, MPs say.

MPs accuse Government of lacking clear flood-resilience targets Local authority leaders have welcomed a call from MPs urging the Government to provide councils with the resources they need to protect vulnerable communities from flooding. A report from the House of Commons Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee (EFRA) has accused the Government of lacking clear flood-resilience targets, which it says leaves England ‘playing catch-up’ with climate change. Published today, the re...