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The Governments Rural Strategy And The Draft Natural Environment And Rural Communities Bill
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Book Synopsis The Government's Rural Strategy and the Draft Natural Environment and Rural Communities Bill by : Great Britain. Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
Download or read book The Government's Rural Strategy and the Draft Natural Environment and Rural Communities Bill written by Great Britain. Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2005-05-26 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dated May 2005. Response to the Committee's 5th report, HCP 408-I, session 2004-05 (ISBN 021502334X)
Book Synopsis Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act 2006 by : Great Britain
Download or read book Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act 2006 written by Great Britain and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2006-04-10 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Act is primarily intended to implement key aspects of the Government's Rural Strategy and addresses issues relating to the natural environment. The Act establishes an independent body - Natural England - responsible for conserving, enhancing and managing England's natural environment for the benefit of current and future generations. Natural England brings together the functions of English Nature and certain functions currently performed by the Countryside Agency and the Rural Development Service (a Defra Directorate). The Act also establishes the Commission for Rural Communities ("the Commission"). The Commission will be an independent advocate, watchdog and expert adviser for rural England, with a particular focus on people suffering from social disadvantage and areas suffering from economic under-performance. The Act also reconstitutes the Joint Nature Conservation Committee and renames and reconstitutes the Inland Waterways Amenity Advisory Council (which becomes the Inland Waterways Advisory Council). The Act makes provision in respect of biodiversity, pesticides harmful to wildlife and the protection of birds, and in respect of invasive non-native species. It alters enforcement powers in connection with wildlife protection, and extends time limits for prosecuting certain wildlife offences. It addresses a small number of gaps and uncertainties in relation to the law on sites of special scientific interest. And it amends the functions and constitution of National Park authorities, the functions of the Broads Authority and the law on rights of way.
Author :Great Britain. Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs Publisher : ISBN 13 :9780101646024 Total Pages :76 pages Book Rating :4.6/5 (46 download)
Book Synopsis Draft Natural Environment and Rural Communities Bill by : Great Britain. Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
Download or read book Draft Natural Environment and Rural Communities Bill written by Great Britain. Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and published by . This book was released on 2005-12-01 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This policy document sets out the Government's draft Natural Environment and Rural Communities Bill to implement its agenda for the sustainable development of services to rural communities, as set out in the Rural Strategy 2004 published in July 2004 by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. The publication contains the text of the draft Bill, together with accompanying explanatory notes and a Regulatory Impact Assessment, published for pre-legislative scrutiny and public consultation.
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215034205 Total Pages :64 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (342 download)
Book Synopsis The UK Government's "vision for the Common Agricultural Policy" by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee
Download or read book The UK Government's "vision for the Common Agricultural Policy" written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2007-05-23 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In December 2005 the Government launched a "Vision for the Common Agricultural Policy", which was intended to stimulate debate and show how the Common Agricultural Policy should change in 10-15 years. This report examines the proposals and finds them a lost opportunity. The Government should have directed the debate towards scrapping the existing CAP and replacing it with a Rural Policy for the European Union. There should thus be a new Vision document, launched in a more subtle way so that allies for reform can be enlisted. The credibility of the document depends on the Government providing full and detailed evaluation of the impact of proposals on biodiversity, the environment, markets for agricultural goods and individual farm enterprises. This should be done by mid 2008. The long-term justification of the expenditure of taxpayers' money is the provision of public benefit. These public goods should be measurable and capable of evaluation.
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215033383 Total Pages :74 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (333 download)
Book Synopsis The Rural Payments Agency and the implementation of the Single Payment Scheme by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee
Download or read book The Rural Payments Agency and the implementation of the Single Payment Scheme written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2007-03-29 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The EU Single Payment Scheme replaced 11 previous subsidies to farmers based on agricultural production with one payment for land management. The European Commission gave some discretion to Member States over how to implement the scheme, and the Rural Payments Agency (RPA), which is responsible for administering the scheme in England, opted for the dynamic hybrid model which incorporates elements of previous entitlement and new regionalised area payments based on a flat rate per hectare. A NAO report (HCP 1631, session 2005-06, ISBN 9780102943399), published in October 2006, found that the RPA underestimated the risks and complexities involved in implementing the hybrid model, and the IT system was never tested as a whole before the scheme was introduced. It failed to adequately pilot land registration, and underestimated the amount of work involved in both mapping the land and processing each claim, having to rely on often inexperienced temporary and agency staff to clear the backlog. The difficulties were not picked up early enough, neither by the RPA nor Defra, for corrective action to be taken in time, resulting in the RPA's failure to meet its own payment targets. Delayed payments have cost farmers money in additional interest and bank charges, and caused distress to a significant minority of farmers, particularly hill farmers. The cost of implementing the scheme was budgeted at £76 million but rose to £122 million by March 2006, with further cost increases likely. Following on from a previous Committee report on the RPA (HCP 840, session 2005-06, ISBN 9780215027115), published in January 2006 and in light of the NAO findings, this report focuses on aspects of policy decision-making and political accountability raised by the problems with the Single Payment Scheme. The Committee concludes the Scheme has been a catastrophe for some farmers and a serious and embarrassing failure for Defra and the RPA, and Defra's fundamental failure to carry out one of its core tasks (that is to pay farmers their financial entitlements on time) differentiates this issue from the myriad of botched Government IT projects. There is a need for greater expertise within government in the delivery of such complex IT projects, and the report also criticises the quality of advice given by the Office of Government Commerce and the IT system designed by Accenture as the principal IT contractor. Defra determined the policies which it required the RPA to implement and Defra leadership was at fault for accepting RPA statements that implementing the complex hybrid model to deadline was "do-able". The Committee argues that responsibility for this failure goes wider than the dismissal of the RPA chief executive, and ministers and senior Defra officials should also be held to account, particularly Margaret Beckett (the then Defra Secretary of State), Sir Brian Bender, (the former Defra Permanent Secretary) and Andy Lebrecht (the Director General for Sustainable Farming, Food and Fisheries). It concludes that a departmental failure as serious as this should result in the removal from office of those responsible for faulty policy design and implementation, and it recommends that new guidance on Ministerial accountability is needed in the event of such serious departmental failure.
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :0215026756 Total Pages :32 pages Book Rating :4.2/5 (15 download)
Book Synopsis The Departmental Annual Report 2005 by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee
Download or read book The Departmental Annual Report 2005 written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2005-12-20 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: departmental annual Report 2005 : Fourth report of session 2005-06, Vol. 1: Report, together with formal minutes, and lists of oral and written Evidence
Author :Great Britain: House of Commons Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215025227 Total Pages :344 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (252 download)
Book Synopsis Sessional Returns by : Great Britain: House of Commons
Download or read book Sessional Returns written by Great Britain: House of Commons and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2005-06-23 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With corrigendum slip dated June 2005 (1 sheet).
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :0215028767 Total Pages :316 pages Book Rating :4.2/5 (15 download)
Book Synopsis The Environment Agency by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee
Download or read book The Environment Agency written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2006-05-11 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With correction slip dated May 2006.
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :0215034910 Total Pages :212 pages Book Rating :4.2/5 (15 download)
Book Synopsis Draft Climate Change Bill by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee
Download or read book Draft Climate Change Bill written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2007-07-05 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report examines the draft Climate Change Bill, which published in March 2007 as Command paper Cm 7040 (ISBN 9780101704021). Target setting alone cannot deliver policy objectives, but enshrining one in law will strengthen the Government's resolve to achieve it, ensure greater public accountability, and give confidence to the business community whose investment decisions are central to meeting the target. The Committee recommends a number of changes to the bill. Inconsistency in language, with "UK carbon account" and "UK carbon dioxide emissions" seemingly used interchangeably, should be addressed. There should not be an upper limit on the 2020 target (26-32 per cent reduction in carbon dioxide emission), and the Bill should make provision for both the 2020 and 2050 targets to be revised, though only in an upwards direction. The provision to amend a budget more than a year after the end of a budgetary period is seen as making a nonsense of the concept of budgetary periods, and should be removed completely. The proposed Committee on Climate Change, rightly composed of experts, should not appear to give more representation to economic interests over environmental ones. The resources proposed for the Committee may prove inadequate. The Committee recommends that the impact of climate change on biodiversity should be added to the Bill.
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215026248 Total Pages :68 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (262 download)
Book Synopsis Reform of the EU Sugar Regime by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee
Download or read book Reform of the EU Sugar Regime written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2005-11-17 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The current system of prices, production and import quotas for the EU sugar market, which has remained largely unchanged since its inception in 1968, is due to expire in June 2006. It has attracted criticism for its anomalous structure, especially given the reforms to other aspects of the CAP in 2003, and the fact that some elements have been declared illegal by the WTO has added to the pressure for change. Following on from an earlier Committee report on this topic (HCP 550-I, session 2003-04, ISBN 0215018257), this report examines the recent proposals by the European Commission to reform the regime, in the context of the wider Doha round of trade negotiations, focusing on the likely impact on sugar producers and processors in the UK and the wider EU, and the development of the UK Government's position on the proposals. The Committee's conclusions include support for the Commission's reform proposals to secure price reductions in order to bring the European sugar market into balance; and that the UK, in its role as EU President, should support the Commission in minimising any attempts to dilute the reforms.
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215027894 Total Pages :120 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (278 download)
Book Synopsis Bovine TB by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee
Download or read book Bovine TB written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2006-03-15 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bovine TB : Badger culling, sixth report of session 2005-06, Vol. 2: Oral and written Evidence
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :0215030591 Total Pages :267 pages Book Rating :4.2/5 (15 download)
Book Synopsis Climate Change by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee
Download or read book Climate Change written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2006-09-18 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215522030 Total Pages :48 pages Book Rating :4.5/5 (22 download)
Book Synopsis Draft Marine Bill by : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee
Download or read book Draft Marine Bill written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2008 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Government published its Draft Marine Bill on 3 April 2008 as Cm 7351 (ISBN 9780101735124). The Government proposes to legislate to give people right of access on foot all around the English coast. The Committee remains dissatisfied about the uncertainty that surrounds the process of pre-legislative scrutiny as exemplified by this case. The Committee was surprised at the vague and uncommunicative way that the Government deals with the House in preparing for such scrutiny. When the Government is preparing draft bills in the future, it should inform the Liaison Committee which should recommend, in consultation with the relevant departmental select committee, how pre-legislative scrutiny should be conducted. The Bill places too much emphasis on trusting Natural England to "get it right" in terms of determining the alignment of the route and extent of spreading room; landowners and occupiers, in particular, are entitled to more concrete safeguards especially as the Government intends to strike a "fair balance" between public and private interests. The lack of a formal appeal process is a fundamental weakness of the Bill. The Committee is still to be convinced that £5 million a year for 10 years is enough to create access land all around England. The Government should also clarify responsibility for long-term maintenance before the Bill is introduced. The more detail Natural England can provide early on about how it intends to implement the policy in common coastal scenarios will reduce concerns. Natural England should produce a detailed draft of its Scheme before Parliament starts to consider the Bill. Natural England should have a statutory duty written into the Bill to conduct a review of the lessons it has learned from early implementation of the proposals.
Download or read book Planning written by and published by . This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Great Britain: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780101808224 Total Pages :84 pages Book Rating :4.8/5 (82 download)
Book Synopsis The natural choice by : Great Britain: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Download or read book The natural choice written by Great Britain: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2011-06-07 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This white paper sets out proposals for a detailed programme of action to repair damage done to the environment in the past, and urges everyone to get involved in helping nature to flourish at all levels - from neighbourhoods to national parks. The plans are directly linked to the groundbreaking research in the National Ecosystem Assessment that showed the strong economic arguments for safeguarding and enhancing the natural environment. They also act on the recommendations of 'Making Space for Nature', a report into the state of England's wildlife sites, led by Professor John Lawton and published in September 2010, which showed that England's wildlife sites are fragmented and not able to respond to the pressures of climate change and other pressures we put on our land. Key measures proposed include: i) Reconnecting nature with New Nature Improvement Areas (NIAs) with a £7.5 million fund for 12 initial NIAs, biodiversity offsetting, New Local Nature Partnerships with £1 million available this year, phasing out peat, ii) Connecting people and nature for better quality of life with Green Areas Designation, better urban green spaces; more children experiencing nature by learning outdoors, strengthening local public health activities, the new environmental volunteering initiative "Muck in 4 Life" to improve places in towns and countryside for people and nature to enjoy and iii) Capturing and improving the value of nature with a Natural Capital Committee; an annual statement of green accounts for UK Plc, a business-led Task Force to expand the UK business opportunities from new products and services which are good for the economy and nature alike.
Book Synopsis Journals of the House of Commons by : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Download or read book Journals of the House of Commons written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215035639 Total Pages :60 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (356 download)
Book Synopsis British Waterways by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee
Download or read book British Waterways written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2007-07-31 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This inquiry into British Waterways covers the following topics: the improvements to the network over the past decade; the impact of recent grant reductions; funding levels in the Comprehensive Spending Review 2007; changes to the financial and regulatory framework; commercial activities; growth in the waterways network for leisure; potential growth of freight; the relationship with users; partnership working; the relationship with Government. The inquiry showed that the relationship between British Waterways and its sponsor department have been tense in recent months, with a former minister criticising them in public. The Committee hope that it is time for a fresh start. The Committee fully support the case for a longer-term funding contract and believe there is a strong case for other Government department to also make direct contributions to the funding. Government should rule out any plans for privatisation.
