Rural Affairs

With 12 months to go until the 2026 Senedd Elections, Welsh Conservatives Leader Darren Millar has announced a reshuffle in the Shadow Cabinet

Cllr Alastair Redman, Isle of Islay, Argyll and Bute, writes about the continued decline of and 'serious investment' needed in rural services

Minister pledges to maintain the Basic Payment Scheme ceiling at £238m

Secretary of State Steve Reed said: "Assuming these projections from HMRC validated by Office for Budget Responsibility [OBR] and Institute for Fiscal Studies [IFS] are correct, than many of them, probably happily are wrong"

In a debate led by Conservative MP for Chester South and Eddisbury, Aphra Brandreth, she said the cause of stress for farmers, particularly more recently, has been Government policy

The committee said it wanted to ensure it is hearing from people and organisations that are affected by Defra's responsibilities

Industry experts start to unpick what the changes to Inheritance Tax (IHT) reliefs mean for the farming sector

Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and Climate Change Huw Irranca-Davies confirmed the carbon sequestration evidence panel would be reporting its findings to the ministerial roundtable 'anytime soon'

NFU president Tom Bradshaw warned the Farming Minister that in light of the £358 million pound underspend of the farming budget, Defra was a department ‘very close to failure' if it was not careful