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Lords Chamber
Farming Families - Thu 21 Nov 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Viscount Goschen (Con - Excepted Hereditary) the habitats it contains in what is, as we must recognise, particularly in the hill-farming world, a - Speech Link
2: Lord Taylor of Holbeach (Con - Life peer) investment in farming and farmers prepared to back the Government’s policy. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (Lab - Life peer) Farming and food security are the foundations of a healthy and resilient economy, the local community - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Income Tax (Charge) - Tue 05 Nov 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Tom Tugendhat (Con - Tonbridge) taxed halfway through.The point is seen most obviously in the tax on farming and on the inheritability - Speech Link
2: Alex Easton (Ind - North Down) That contradicts the Government’s projections and puts the future of farming in jeopardy. - Speech Link
3: Tom Morrison (LD - Cheadle) For 14 years they sat back and watched as Stepping Hill, like many other hospitals, crumbled. - Speech Link
4: Steve Witherden (Lab - Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr) Investing properly in farming and addressing farmers’ concerns is essential for the industry’s future - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Farming and Food Security - Tue 08 Oct 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Steve Barclay (Con - North East Cambridgeshire) will be used in full and without delay, that no reduction to the farming budget will be made and that - Speech Link
2: Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) loves Langdale, will he please prove it by ensuring that we invest in hill farmers and in farming more - Speech Link
3: Andrew Pakes (LAB - Peterborough) Does he agree that if we are to invest in food and farming, and to bring jobs and prosperity to rural - Speech Link
4: Robbie Moore (Con - Keighley and Ilkley) , fight for the farming budget in full and deliver for farmers up and down the country. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Sheep Farming - Wed 04 Sep 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) Sheep farming is huge in the uplands that we both share and love, and 41% of upland farmers are tenants - Speech Link
2: David Smith (Lab - North Northumberland) The climate and topography lend themselves well to sheep farming, especially hill farming, which we have - Speech Link
3: Daniel Zeichner (Lab - Cambridge) case sheep farmers and everyone who has a stake in our food and farming system. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Ben Wallace (Con - Wyre and Preston North) and policies, and by communicating. - Speech Link
2: Jo Churchill (Con - Bury St Edmunds) Rural Affairs was a Brexit bonus to me, and hopefully it will serve as a lasting legacy to farming. - Speech Link
3: Robert Neill (Con - Bromley and Chislehurst) I wish both Charlie Davis in Chislehurst and Eltham and Peter Fortune in Bromley and Biggin Hill every - Speech Link
4: Stephen Hammond (Con - Wimbledon) People should, if possible, talk about hope and the sunny uplands and what they want to do for their - Speech Link
5: Steve Brine (Con - Winchester) present—Alice Hammond, Toby Colehan, Alex Pinney and Helen Hilland of the past, especially Russ Norton - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Farming - Mon 04 Mar 2024
Wales Office

Mentions:
1: Fay Jones (Con - Brecon and Radnorshire) Our commitment to farming is absolutely solid and every penny of England’s £2.4 billion annual farming - Speech Link
2: Steve Reed (LAB - Croydon North) The Minister for Food, Farming and Fisheries, the right hon. - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) He is a dairyman, and he does beef, sheep and arable farming. - Speech Link
4: Daniel Zeichner (Lab - Cambridge) Farming is a hard business, and times are difficult. - Speech Link
5: Robbie Moore (Con - Keighley) farming businesses can thrive, and so that farming continues to attract the very best and the brightest.Let - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [Lords]
2nd reading - Mon 29 Jan 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Kemi Badenoch (Con - Saffron Walden) Member for Birmingham, Hodge Hill (Liam Byrne), raised questions about China, and I promised to address - Speech Link
2: Gareth Thomas (LAB - Harrow West) Friend the Member for Birmingham, Hodge Hill (Liam Byrne), the Chair of the Business and Trade Committee - Speech Link
3: Neil Hudson (Con - Penrith and The Border) and farming and in how we regard animal health. - Speech Link
4: Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Lab - Slough) surrounding farming and China. - Speech Link
5: Greg Hands (Con - Chelsea and Fulham) Member for Birmingham, Hodge Hill (Liam Byrne) and the hon. Member for Walthamstow (Stella Creasy). - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Sustainable Farming Incentive: Species Management and ELMS - Thu 25 Jan 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Earl of Caithness (Con - Excepted Hereditary) just too simplistic and naive to blame all the failure on farming operations. - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Norwich (Bshp - Bishops) Finally, ELMS is just one side of the coin when it comes to nature and farming. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville (LD - Life peer) farming initiative, local nature recovery and landscape recovery. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Farming on Dartmoor - Tue 18 Apr 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Geoffrey Cox (CON - Torridge and West Devon) trust and confidence that should exist between the statutory regulator and the farming communities that - Speech Link
2: Luke Pollard (LAB - Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport) I want them to be sustainable and benefit all the different types of farming. - Speech Link
3: Tim Farron (LDEM - Westmorland and Lonsdale) for all of us who care about the future of Britain’s vital uplands and moorlands. - Speech Link
4: Gary Streeter (CON - South West Devon) Thirdly, there are the interests and needs of the farmers and commoners whose families have been farming - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Direct Payments to Farmers (Reductions) (England) Regulations 2023 - Tue 28 Mar 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville (LDEM - Life peer) and landowners through both the countryside stewardship and the sustainable farming incentive schemes - Speech Link
2: Lord Taylor of Holbeach (CON - Life peer) in a horticultural and farming business. - Speech Link
3: Duke of Wellington (CB - Excepted Hereditary) It was a small family farm, and she was farming with her son. - Speech Link
4: None If we want farming and food production to be resilient and sustainable over the long term, farming and - Speech Link