Forum Brief: DEFRA
Policy Consultation 20 January 2003
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is facing a programme of spending cuts after overspending during the foot and mouth crisis.
Forum Brief: Hunting Bill
Policy Consultation 7 January 2003
The government's "utility" tests, proposed in the Hunting Bill, would undermine farming, fishing and shooting if applied to other activities, it has been claimed.
Forum Brief: Hunting Bill
Policy Consultation 17 December 2002
MPs last night backed the government's hunting bill with a majority of 213 at second reading.
Forum Brief: Farming strategy
Policy Consultation 12 December 2002
Ministers have unveiled their strategy to revitalise the hard-pressed farming sector.
Forum Brief: Road plans
Policy Consultation 10 December 2002
Alistair Darling has unveiled a major overhaul of the government's road building plans.
Forum Brief: Planning Bill
Policy Consultation 5 December 2002
Lord Rooker has unveiled a new planning bill designed to speed up approval for new business developments.
Forum Brief: Hunting
Policy Consultation 5 December 2002
ePolitix Forum members respond to the government's proposed new hunting legislation.
Forum Brief: Rural post offices
Policy Consultation 3 December 2002
If the Post Office succeeds in keeping rural branches open, it will receive an extra £450 million over three years, Patricia Hewitt announced yesterday.
Forum Brief: Right to roam
Policy Consultation 29 November 2002
Right to roam access has been granted a year early in some areas by rural affairs minister Alun Michael.
Forum Brief: Broadband
Policy Consultation 19 November 2002
Schools and doctors' surgeries across the UK are to get broadband internet access, Tony Blair has announced.
Forum Brief: Queen's Speech - Hunting
Policy Consultation 13 November 2002
The intense battle over hunting with dogs will again be considered by MPs and peers during the forthcoming session.
Forum Brief: Foot and mouth vaccination
Policy Consultation 7 November 2002
An animal vaccination programme will take place in the event of any future foot and mouth outbreak, Margaret Beckett has said.
Rural lobby holds personal data on opponents
Press Review 1 November 2002
Forum Brief: CAP reform
Policy Consultation 14 October 2002
The British government is set to back down on its demands for a radical overhaul of Europe's Common Agricultural policy, according to reports today.
Forum Brief: Fox hunting
Policy Consultation 4 October 2002
Labour MPs are bracing themselves for a strong backlash from rural campaigners over the government's plans to ban hunting with dogs as a field sport.
