{"id":4355,"date":"2025-03-07T13:14:26","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T13:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=4355"},"modified":"2026-02-18T00:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T00:33:10","slug":"breakfast-meeting-with-maldon-and-southminster-nfu-branch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=4355","title":{"rendered":"Breakfast Meeting with NFU Branch"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"4355\" class=\"elementor elementor-4355\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3bb68475 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"3bb68475\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2c0ed800 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2c0ed800\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<p>Sir John Whittingdale had a breakfast meeting with members of the Maldon and Southminster NFU Branch at the Purleigh Bell.<\/p>\n\n<p>The meeting was attended by NFU Secretary, John Harvey, and County Adviser, Hamish Debnam-Sharp as well as farmers from across the Maldon area and the Dengie Peninsula, chaired by Cllr Jane Fleming. The discussion centred on the Government\u2019s proposed imposition of Inheritance Tax on Farms through the removal of Agricultural Property Relief. Other issues which were raised included the new Environmental Land Management Schemes as well as the challenge of rural crime such as hare-coursing and fly-tipping.<\/p>\n\n<p>Sir John said: \u201cFarming is still an incredibly important industry in the Maldon District and\u00a0 makes a vital contribution to our food security. It was very good to hear from a large number of local farmers and am grateful to the NFU for organising the breakfast. fully understand the deep concern felt locally about the damage that will be done by the Government\u2019s removal of Agricultural Property Relief \u2013 Labour\u2019s\u00a0 Family Farm Tax which will bring an end to many farms that have been worked for generations. I will continue to press the Government to rethink its plans.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"711\" class=\"wp-image-4356\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/thumbnail_Maldon-Southminster-NFU-7-March-2025-1024x711.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Met local NFU members in Purleigh to discuss pressures on farming, including inheritance tax proposals, environmental schemes and rural crime, and to hear concerns from farmers across Maldon and the Dengie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4356,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4355"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5490,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4355\/revisions\/5490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}