Question follow-through · 109874
Animal Feed: Costs
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what support she plans to provide to farmers in a) Newcastle-under-Lyme and b) Staffordshire facing increases in the average costs of a bale of hay.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 30 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 3 Feb 2026
- Answer
- 9 Feb 2026 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
30 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what support she plans to provide to farmers in a) Newcastle-under-Lyme and b) Staffordshire facing increases in the average costs of a bale of hay.
3 Feb 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Feb 2026
Answer published
The UK's agricultural sectors, including those farming in Newcastle-under-Lyme and Staffordshire, operate in an open market with the value of commodities established by those in the supply chain including farmers, processors, wholesalers, retailers and co...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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