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Fruit and Vegetables: Horticulture

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department has undertaken a review of the accessibility of the Fruit and Vegetable aid scheme.

answeredDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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Answering body
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Tabled
23 Jul 2024
Target answer date
25 Jul 2024
Answer
25 Jul 2024 · 2 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 23 Jul 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department has undertaken a review of the accessibility of the Fruit and Vegetable aid scheme.

  2. 25 Jul 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 25 Jul 2024

    Answer published

    The Fruit and Vegetable Aid Scheme is an EU legacy scheme and legislation is in place which will close it on the 31st of December 2025. The Government has committed to championing British farming, whilst protecting the environment, and is currently consid...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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