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  • Labour Party conference

    I'm in Manchester at the moment for the Labour Party conference and I've just spent the last few hours following DEFRA secretary Hilary Benn to various fringe meetings and Q&A sessions. It felt like he said a lot in all that time, but now I'm writing my notes back I've realised there...
    Posted to Talking Point (Forum) by caroline stocks on Sun, Sep 21 2008

  • Re: OFC views

    Hi TeslaCoils Great to meet you and the other Debate ticket winners at the OFC. As a new director of the OFC, I suppose I'm biased but I thought it was another excellent event. The best thing about it was the large number of younger farmers present this year. It was lively, thought provoking and...
    Posted to Talking Point (Forum) by Jane King on Thu, Jan 10 2008

  • Re: Is Defra really outstanding?

    [quote user="kansasfarmer"]I wonder how farmers would rate our FSA. I also wonder if FWi should mail or email the results to DEFRA and Parliament. [/quote] I think we might. The reason we asked the question was because of Hilary Benn's In the Hot Seat interview in the 4 Jan issue where...
    Posted to Talking Point (Forum) by Isabel Davies on Mon, Jan 7 2008

  • Hilary Benn at the Oxford Farming Conference 2008

    Knowing how you all enjoyed Mr Benn's last 'future of farming speech' I thought I'd give you the link for today's at the Oxford Farming Confernce: http://www.defra.gov.uk/corporate/ministers/speeches/hilary-benn/hb080103.htm There are really more questions raised than answered but...
    Posted to Talking Point (Forum) by Isabel Davies on Thu, Jan 3 2008

  • DEFRA officials being offered 'golden handshakes' of more than £150k

    Hundreds of DEFRA officials are being offered early redundancy as part of the department's emergency cost-saving measures. The package, which includes pensions of £40,000 a year for life, a lump sum of three times their pension and an additional lump sum of up to £30,000, is being used to tempt 300...
    Posted to Talking Point (Forum) by emily on Tue, Nov 27 2007

  • Re: Hilary Benn's vision for agriculture

    Here is the full speech for those that are interested. Speech by Rt Hon Hilary Benn MP at the Farming for the Future Conference, London - 19 November 2007 Thank you Don. Can I extend a warm welcome to everyone who has taken the time to join us here at the Oval today. The five months since I arrived at...
    Posted to Talking Point (Forum) by Isabel Davies on Fri, Nov 23 2007

  • Re: Letters to Hilary Benn button

    [quote user="Isabel Davies"]....I'll see what I can do. It might not be until next week, but I'll defeintly have a go. Any requests about the sort of contacts people would like to see?...[/quote] I wouldn't get too exited about this idea. I'm not saying it's not worth trying...
    Posted to Talking Point (Forum) by KPA on Sat, Nov 3 2007

  • Should farmers be faced with a £40m animal disease bill?

    DEFRA secretary of state Hilary Benn announced yesterday (Thursday 25 October) English livestock farmers will face a future bill of £40m a year as their contribution to the cost of animal disease outbreaks ( see FWi's article ). The announcement has been met with strong opposition from both government...
    Posted to Talking Point (Forum) by emily on Fri, Oct 26 2007

  • DEFRA's priorities. What should they be?

    An email has just landed in my inbox from the environment, food and rural affairs select committee which I thought was interesting. The MPs on the goup are going to quiz Hilary Benn on 17 October about what DEFRA's priroties are. It will be interesting to see how far farming appears up that list...
    Posted to Talking Point (Forum) by Isabel Davies on Mon, Oct 8 2007

  • FMD disease outbreak caused by severe biosecurity lapses - is DEFRA hypocritical?

    A combination of unique and unhappy circumstances led to the foot and mouth disease outbreak, DEFRA secretary, Hilary Benn has announced at a press conference today. Leaky pipes, damaged by tree roots and first reported four years ago, and a failure to allocate funds for repair are all listed as reasons...
    Posted to Talking Point (Forum) by emily on Fri, Sep 7 2007
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