Question follow-through · 13590
Genetically Modified Organisms: Crops
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will take steps to ensure that the British Society of Plant Breeders correctly applies the small producer exemption from royalty fees applied to grain crops with diverse genetic
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 11 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 14 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 15 Nov 2024 · 4 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
11 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will take steps to ensure that the British Society of Plant Breeders correctly applies the small producer exemption from royalty fees applied to grain crops with diverse genetic
14 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 Nov 2024
Answer published
The British Society of Plant Breeders (BSPB) is the representative body for the UK plant breeding industry. In the collection of royalty fees and farm saved seed payments, the BSPB are acting as independent agents of various breeders and are not contracte...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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8 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress she has made on developing an improved plant health alert system; and whether the new system will include real time updates on border holds.
Plants: Import Controls
8 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to improve border infrastructure for importing (a) large plants and (b) trees.
Foot and Mouth Disease: Disease Control
13 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to (a) protect the livestock sector from the confirmed outbreak of foot and mouth disease in Germany and (b) prevent the disease entering the UK.
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Deer: Conservation
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Quarrying: Air Pollution
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Quarrying: Air Pollution
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