To match an exact phrase, use quotation marks around the search term. eg. "Parliamentary Estate". Use "OR" or "AND" as link words to form more complex queries.


View sample alert

Keep yourself up-to-date with the latest developments by exploring our subscription options to receive notifications direct to your inbox

Westminster Hall
Energy Support for Farms - Tue 21 Mar 2023
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) The UK does not produce enough fruit and vegetables for its population to get the recommended five portions - Speech Link
2: Patricia Gibson (SNP - North Ayrshire and Arran) include horticulture and poultry in the energy and trade intensive industries scheme. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Poverty: Food Costs - Wed 01 Mar 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lee Anderson (CON - Ashfield) picking fruit and vegetables. - Speech Link
2: Lee Anderson (CON - Ashfield) They were struggling to cook a vegetable properly—to batch cook, to freeze stuff. - Speech Link
3: Tim Farron (LDEM - Westmorland and Lonsdale) We need to pause the phase-out of the basic payment scheme, so we can protect our farmers and stop the - Speech Link
4: Daniel Zeichner (LAB - Cambridge) The trial resulted in 85% more fruit and vegetables reaching frontline charities and community groups - Speech Link
5: Mark Spencer (CON - Sherwood) I have also asked them to look again at how they work with our farmers and how they buy fruit and vegetables - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
National Food Strategy and Food Security - Thu 27 Oct 2022
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (CON - The Cotswolds) Members have said, the price of staple foods including bread, tea, potatoes and vegetable oil has absolutely - Speech Link
2: Ben Lake (PC - Ceredigion) However, the figure stands at only 54% for fresh vegetables and 16% for fresh fruit. - Speech Link
3: Pete Wishart (SNP - Perth and North Perthshire) it is so bad that fruit and vegetable growers face inflation rates of up to 24%. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Tributes to Her Late Majesty The Queen - Fri 09 Sep 2022
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Oliver Heald (CON - North East Hertfordshire) year as an MP, she came to open a new housing development at Beech Hill and a sheltered housing scheme - Speech Link
2: Gary Streeter (CON - South West Devon) a monarch, she would want us to recognise the significance of the gospel message that produced such fruit - Speech Link
3: Barry Gardiner (LAB - Brent North) But the virtues which, in my view, her life so manifestly displayed are what Christians call the fruit - Speech Link
4: Duncan Baker (CON - North Norfolk) This story involves Christmas and why our supplier was late one year with the Christmas vegetable delivery.One - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Free School Meals and Child Poverty - Thu 08 Sep 2022
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Kim Johnson (LAB - Liverpool, Riverside) on free school meals and tackling child poverty. - Speech Link
2: Kim Johnson (LAB - Liverpool, Riverside) It increases the amount of fruit and vegetables and reduces the amount of sugar and salt consumed by - Speech Link
3: Kelly Tolhurst (CON - Rochester and Strood) We are also funding breakfast clubs in more than 2,000 schools, and the school fruit and vegetable scheme - Speech Link
4: Kelly Tolhurst (CON - Rochester and Strood) Local authorities also have the household support grant scheme, which is accessible by people who are - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Health Improvement and Food Production - Thu 07 Jul 2022
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Baroness Walmsley (LDEM - Life peer) The Government set up the Healthy Start scheme and the holiday food scheme, on which they should be congratulated - Speech Link
2: Baroness Merron (LAB - Life peer) of fruit and vegetables. - Speech Link
3: Lord Kamall (CON - Life peer) of fruit and vegetables. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Government Food Strategy - Mon 13 Jun 2022
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: George Eustice (CON - Camborne and Redruth) the vegetable industry. - Speech Link
2: George Eustice (CON - Camborne and Redruth) For the high-fruit season later in the year and for the poultry season at the end of the year, we judge - Speech Link
3: Roger Gale (CON - North Thanet) The Isle of Thanet has produced, historically, some of the finest fruit and vegetables in the country - Speech Link
4: Munira Wilson (LDEM - Twickenham) in struggling households a free school meal? - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Government Food Strategy - Mon 13 Jun 2022
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Benyon (CON - Life peer) the vegetable industry. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Walmsley (LDEM - Life peer) and food scheme would help to get fruit and vegetables into the diets of poor families, yet there are - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (GRN - Life peer) Why, when we are talking about fruit and vegetables, do we focus on tomatoes and lettuces? - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Agriculture Sector: Recruitment Support - Wed 25 May 2022
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Wendy Chamberlain (LDEM - North East Fife) East Fife is famed for its soft fruitand for flowers and plants for our gardens and homes. - Speech Link
2: Deidre Brock (SNP - Edinburgh North and Leith) and soft fruit providers in Perthshire and near Dundee. - Speech Link
3: Daniel Zeichner (LAB - Cambridge) Vegetable growers are planning to switch out of vegetables to go into cereals, which is exactly the opposite - Speech Link
4: Wendy Chamberlain (LDEM - North East Fife) As consumers, we are picky about our soft fruit, and we are right to be. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Food Price Inflation - Thu 19 May 2022
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Benyon (CON - Life peer) Vegetables, including potatoes, rose at a lower level of 1.3%, and fruit remained broadly stable. - Speech Link
2: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (CON - Life peer) My Lords, does my noble friend share my concern that fruit and vegetable prices may increase because - Speech Link
3: Lord Benyon (CON - Life peer) fruit and vegetables will be harvested and available for our domestic market. - Speech Link
4: Lord Benyon (CON - Life peer) There are very defined standards on school meals and I would want to know more details about how or why - Speech Link