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Lords Chamber
Biosecurity and Infectious Diseases - Thu 18 Jan 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Trees (XB - Life peer) The movement of humans, animals and plants, and of animal and plant products, is now at a speed and scale - Speech Link
2: Earl of Cork and Orrery (XB - Excepted Hereditary) and movement, such as forestry and horticulture. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Walmsley (LD - Life peer) The committee agreed with that and called on the Government to improve recruitment of people into horticulture - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Employment: Disabled People - Mon 06 Mar 2023
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Viscount Younger of Leckie (CON - Excepted Hereditary) support and manage health and disability in the workplace. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Thornton (LAB - Life peer) benefits and the challenges regarding the working conditions, employment and retention of personal assistants - Speech Link
3: Viscount Younger of Leckie (CON - Excepted Hereditary) health and disability. - Speech Link
4: Viscount Younger of Leckie (CON - Excepted Hereditary) the gardening sector. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Horticultural Sector - Thu 13 Oct 2022
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Baroness Fookes (CON - Life peer) My Lords, I declare my interest as co-chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Gardening and - Speech Link
2: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (LAB - Life peer) and drive the growth of high-tech horticulture. - Speech Link
3: Lord Benyon (CON - Life peer) and Horticulture, which she so ably co-chairs. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II - Fri 09 Sep 2022
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Walmsley (LDEM - Life peer) She was at the heart of her family and the nation, and supported us all in good times and in bad. - Speech Link
2: None She smiled at young and old, rich and poor—especially poor. - Speech Link
3: Lord Hastings of Scarisbrick (CB - Life peer) He looked at me and said, “You’re—”, and I said, “Yes, and you’re—”. I was still in my early 20s. - Speech Link
4: Lord Taylor of Holbeach (CON - Life peer) Although gardening does not compete with horses or dogs, it comes a very close second, and you have only - Speech Link
5: Lord Dobbs (CON - Life peer) sandwiches and, oh, that smile, and even shouts of joy—yes, she loved her horses, and winning. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Tree Health in England - Thu 09 Jun 2022
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Baroness Young of Old Scone (LAB - Life peer) Will he support—as he is already doing—and promote even more firmly the UK and Ireland Sourced and Grown - Speech Link
2: Baroness Fookes (CON - Life peer) My Lords, I must first declare my interest as co-chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Gardening and - Speech Link
3: Lord Benyon (CON - Life peer) , at the border and inland, to reduce the risks of pests and diseases entering the country and to manage - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Mavisbank House - Tue 07 Dec 2021
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Steve McCabe (LAB - Birmingham, Selly Oak) Please give one another and members of staff space when seated, and when entering and leaving the room - Speech Link
2: Owen Thompson (SNP - Midlothian) of distinctly Scottish arts and culture and a renaissance of the Scots language. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Sustainability and Climate Change (National Curriculum) - Wed 27 Oct 2021
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Nusrat Ghani (CON - Wealden) Please give each other and members of staff room when seated, and when entering and leaving the room. - Speech Link
2: Nadia Whittome (LAB - Nottingham East) It is confined to small parts of science GCSE, or optional subjects such as horticulture and environmental - Speech Link
3: Jeremy Corbyn (IND - Islington North) they do to ensure that there are gardening projects in every school, however small the space, and that - Speech Link
4: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) , and we must not fail them in their education and teaching. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Environment Bill
Committee stage - Mon 05 Jul 2021
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (LAB - Life peer) cans and thereby cut back on litter and landfill. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Sheehan (LDEM - Life peer) start and therefore fewer finer particulates from tyre and brake wear and road dust. - Speech Link
3: None and construction and agricultural machinery. - Speech Link
4: None and targeting, and hence reduce the total volume of inorganic chemical pesticides and exposure. - Speech Link
5: Lord Forsyth of Drumlean (CON - Life peer) and he said, “Three and a half tonnes a day, and there are two of them and there are many like them.” - Speech Link


General Committees
Draft Plant Health etc. (Fees) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 Draft Plant Health etc. (Miscellaneous Fees) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2021 - Mon 17 May 2021
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Victoria Prentis (CON - Banbury) We should remember that most serious plant pests and diseases that arrive and spread in this country - Speech Link
2: Daniel Zeichner (LAB - Cambridge) As ever, the substance has been explained carefully and eloquently by the Minister, and the Committee - Speech Link
3: Victoria Prentis (CON - Banbury) , tested and can be operationalised. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Queen’s Speech - Mon 17 May 2021
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Lord Taylor of Holbeach (CON - Life peer) My entry in the register of interests tells of my family business in agriculture and horticulture. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Pinnock (LDEM - Life peer) and improving the opportunities and prosperity of both people and places. - Speech Link
3: Lord Morse (CB - Life peer) , and welfare and benefits. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Benjamin (LDEM - Life peer) and consider a career in horticulture? - Speech Link
5: Lord Mawson (CB - Life peer) and the public sector, and the calibre of their people and their limited insights and skills, actually - Speech Link