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Westminster Hall
Land Use Change: Food Security - Tue 18 Nov 2025
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Wendy Morton (Con - Aldridge-Brownhills) What happens to roads, GP access and school places? - Speech Link
2: Jess Brown-Fuller (LD - Chichester) The NFU has raised concerns about the fruit and veg scheme, which ends in December without a replacement - Speech Link
3: Robbie Moore (Con - Keighley and Ilkley) The end of the fruit and vegetables scheme—it was disbanded with no announcement beyond the end of this - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Fresh and Nutritious Food: Inequality of Access - Wed 05 Nov 2025
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Perran Moon (Lab - Camborne and Redruth) is closely linked to limited access to fresh fruit and nutritious food. - Speech Link
2: Jim Dickson (Lab - Dartford) could redeem for fresh fruit and veg at the local market. - Speech Link
3: Ben Coleman (Lab - Chelsea and Fulham) And school food standards are not properly enforced. - Speech Link
4: David Chadwick (LD - Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe) wrong messages to families at a time when fruit and vegetable consumption is already falling, especially - Speech Link
5: Angela Eagle (Lab - Wallasey) A free, nutritious meal every school day helps our children and young people to access healthy food and - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 23 Oct 2025
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Jesse Norman (Con - Hereford and South Herefordshire) The first is the imminent closure of the fruit and vegetables aid scheme. - Speech Link
2: Alan Campbell (Lab - Tynemouth) Gentleman raises—the food and vegetable aid scheme—he is a strong advocate for the industry and particularly - Speech Link
3: Tom Gordon (LD - Harrogate and Knaresborough) school nursing services across much of the north of England, helping children and families to get the - Speech Link
4: Liz Twist (Lab - Blaydon and Consett) The clocks turn back this Sunday and many children will soon go to school in the dark. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - Thu 19 Jun 2025
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: None in households earning less than £10,000 per year meet the dietary recommendations for fruit and vegetable - Speech Link
2: None This is a crucial scheme, which helps ease food insecurity and boosts nutrition during the school holidays - Speech Link
3: Lord Moynihan (Con - Excepted Hereditary) play and sports, including walking to and from school. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Smith of Malvern (Lab - Life peer) , school food standards, the Healthy Start scheme and the holiday activities and food programme, and - Speech Link
5: Baroness Smith of Malvern (Lab - Life peer) school food improvement scheme and to update the school food standards. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 19 Jun 2025
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Luke Evans (Con - Hinckley and Bosworth) What assessment he has made of the potential impact of the closure of the fruit and vegetables aid scheme - Speech Link
2: Daniel Zeichner (Lab - Cambridge) The fruit and vegetables aid scheme is an EU legacy scheme, and it closes in England on 1 January 2026 - Speech Link
3: Luke Evans (Con - Hinckley and Bosworth) It uses the fruit and vegetables aid scheme, which is due to run out at the end of 2025, in order to - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Employment Rights Bill
Committee stage part one - Tue 03 Jun 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Roborough (Con - Excepted Hereditary) fruit and vegetable growing industry, the fruit and vegetables need to be picked when ripe and when - Speech Link
2: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) Trial shifts can therefore open doors for young people, school leavers and those coming back into work.If - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Farming and Rural Communities - Thu 03 Apr 2025
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Harlech (Con - Excepted Hereditary) When the scheme was abruptly closed, he was left with no support and his business is now at risk of collapse - Speech Link
2: Lord Carrington (XB - Excepted Hereditary) and vegetable aid scheme. - Speech Link
3: Lord Best (XB - Life peer) The Government are committed to a registration scheme, and they have consulted on the creation of a new - Speech Link
4: Lord Bellingham (Con - Life peer) The wife is involved with the school as a governor and is a PCC.Farm B is a 600-acre farm that is owned - Speech Link
5: Lord Fuller (Con - Life peer) the school is often the largest employer, and the cook, the cleaner and the groundsman—not highly paid - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Free School Meals - Tue 18 Mar 2025
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Liz Jarvis (LD - Eastleigh) one.Providing universal free school meals for primary school children is a good social and economic - Speech Link
2: Ian Byrne (Lab - Liverpool West Derby) meals consume more fruit and vegetables. - Speech Link
3: Claire Young (LD - Thornbury and Yate) The school I visited currently has to have two sittings for lunch and it has one of the larger school - Speech Link
4: Damian Hinds (Con - East Hampshire) In addition to the school fruit and vegetable scheme, there is also the holiday activities and food programme - Speech Link
5: Liz Jarvis (LD - Eastleigh) cap and to have auto-enrolment for free school meals. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Cleve Hill Solar Park - Tue 10 Dec 2024
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Helen Whately (Con - Faversham and Mid Kent) security, and that includes solar. - Speech Link
2: Helen Whately (Con - Faversham and Mid Kent) fumes and water contamination. - Speech Link
3: Kerry McCarthy (Lab - Bristol East) In previous years, we worked together on the all-party parliamentary group for fruit and vegetable farmers - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Valedictory Debate - Fri 24 May 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Robert Halfon (Con - Harlow) An Essex MP came to my school, although I was brought up in north London, and said that the Houses of - Speech Link
2: Tracey Crouch (Con - Chatham and Aylesford) My parents were not interested in politics and I did not go to private school. - Speech Link
3: Andrew Percy (Con - Brigg and Goole) has had a real impact on our pre-school literacy rates.I also set up a first-responder scheme and have - Speech Link
4: Tim Loughton (Con - East Worthing and Shoreham) so the way was clear.Sussex is where I was born, grew up and went to school. - Speech Link