Question follow-through · 63824
Agriculture: Subsidies
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of a replacement to the Fruit and Vegetables Aid Scheme.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 30 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 2 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 8 Jul 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
30 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of a replacement to the Fruit and Vegetables Aid Scheme.
2 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Jul 2025
Answer published
Legislation was introduced in July 2023 that prevents English Producer Organisations submitting new operational programmes and the extension of existing programmes that would end on or after 1 January 2026. This effectively closed the scheme in England.Ou...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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