Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Paul Marsden (Labour), on Wednesday, 8 December 1999, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 27 members in total.

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RURAL DEVELOPMENT FUNDING

That this House welcomes the Government's announcement on the Rural Development Regulation which increases rural development and environmental investment to ??1.6 million over the next seven years and which is a 60 per cent. increase; believes that this demonstrates the Government's commitment to agriculture, rural communities and the rural economy; particularly welcomes the 229 per cent. increase in funding for the organic conversion scheme amounting to ??140 million and an extra ??500 million for the countryside stewardship scheme; recognises the full match funding agreed by the Government for the modulated element; which is new money; congratulates the Minister of Agriculture and his team for securing this deal with EU partners; notes the last Tory Government's failure to achieve any comparatively significant funding for agr-environment schemes; and urges farmers, rural communities and the Government to maximise the potential of this new investment.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

173 

Session

1999-00

Other sponsors

Peter Bradley

David Kidney

Gordon Prentice

David S Borrow

David Leslie Taylor

Subjects

Finance EU grants and loans Regulation Rural areas

Link

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