Question follow-through · 52615
Agriculture: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will include goat farmers in the eligibility criteria for the Animal Health and Welfare grant in the Farming Equipment and Technology Fund 2025.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 15 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 19 May 2025
- Answer
- 21 May 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Environment and energy
- Litter: Community Development · 30 May 2025
- Litter: Enforcement · 30 May 2025
- Litter: Tourism · 30 May 2025
- Agriculture: Finance · 2 Jun 2025
- Whisky: Origin Marking · 10 Jul 2026
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Votes on this topic
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 5 · 1 Jul 2026
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 4 · 1 Jul 2026
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 2 · 1 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
15 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will include goat farmers in the eligibility criteria for the Animal Health and Welfare grant in the Farming Equipment and Technology Fund 2025.
19 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 May 2025
Answer published
Guidance for grants under the Farming Equipment and Technology Fund 2025 was published on 7 May ahead of opening to applications on 29 May. These grants are available to keepers of pigs, dairy cows, beef cattle, laying chickens, broilers and sheep.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
Strong links require the same MP, department and exact heading. Other same-department questions are shown as unreviewed candidates, not as confirmed follow-ups. No debate link is asserted unless a stable source relationship exists.
Litter: Community Development
30 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to support community groups to (a) tackle littering and (b) promote environmental cleanliness.
Litter: Enforcement
30 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to help improve the enforcement of littering.
Litter: Tourism
30 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to tackle littering in tourist hotspots; and how these steps are tailored to the influx of visitors during peak seasons.
Agriculture: Finance
2 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 21 May 2025 to Question 52615 on Agriculture: Finance, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of not including goats in the eligibility criteri
Whisky: Origin Marking
10 Jul 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she plans to decide on the English Whisky Geographical Indication application.