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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) and predators) that present a threat, and supporting rare native breeds”.Given all the international agreements - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) The Government have been doing trade deals, letting into the UK food with standards considerably below - Speech Link
3: Lord Sewell of Sanderstead (Con - Life peer) those farmers who are moving innovation and doing things that are different, adding value to their products - Speech Link
4: Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville (LD - Life peer) 18 months to negotiate a Commons agreement, so if the detail is not available until summer 2024, new agreements - Speech Link
5: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (Lab - Life peer) average 10% uplift in payments, increased payment frequency and a commitment to double the number of agreements - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Groceries Supply Code of Practice - Mon 22 Jan 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Christina Rees (Ind - Neath) supermarkets.The current GSCP contains provisions that are meant to protect suppliers, but allows supply agreements - Speech Link
2: Ben Lake (PC - Ceredigion) Others are finding that their contracts or verbal agreements are being changed with little notice. - Speech Link
3: Mark Spencer (Con - Sherwood) The Government want all farmers to receive a fair price for their products, and we are committed to tackling - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Building Societies Act 1986 (Amendment) Bill
2nd reading - Fri 19 Jan 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Julie Elliott (Lab - Sunderland Central) building societies were created as terminating societies, which meant that the building society terminated trade - Speech Link
2: George Freeman (Con - Mid Norfolk) It is an agricultural community, with many retirees and pensioners moving to quiet rural Norfolk. - Speech Link
3: Natalie Elphicke (Con - Dover) flexibility and allow them to better manage their funding streams and the price and availability of products - Speech Link
4: Nigel Huddleston (Con - Mid Worcestershire) that, since last summer, credit unions in Great Britain have been able to offer a greater range of products - Speech Link


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 Caithness (Con - Excepted Hereditary) innovation is critical in providing potential solutions.I am glad to say the UK ranks third in the world in agricultural - Speech Link
3: Earl of Cork and Orrery (XB - Excepted Hereditary) that.On the other hand, the value to the national balance sheet of our plant stock, both trees and the agricultural - Speech Link
4: Lord de Clifford (XB - Excepted Hereditary) agreements with other nations whose biosecurity policies may not be as robust as the UK’s, we need to - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Second sitting)
Committee stage: 2nd sitting - Tue 16 Jan 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Matthew Pennycook (Lab - Greenwich and Woolwich) documentation—previously, they have not been—and that insurers and brokers, when creating and selling products - Speech Link
2: Mike Amesbury (Lab - Weaver Vale) Matt Brewis: Our new rules around ensuring that these products are fair value came into force on 31 December - Speech Link
3: Barry Gardiner (Lab - Brent North) It is not public until it is made public through section 106 agreements with the council. - Speech Link
4: None , which was 6,000 individuals with qualifications to manage buildings, and ARMA, which used to be a trade - Speech Link
5: None We have participants who are practitioners, as well as all the trade bodies, regulators and redress schemes - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [HL]
Report stage - Tue 16 Jan 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: None Free trade agreements and bilateral agreements are often subject to parliamentary approval. - Speech Link
2: Lord Hamilton of Epsom (Con - Life peer) The fact is that all trade agreements are a compromise. - Speech Link
3: Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park (Con - Life peer) Nearly 90% of deforestation is caused by agricultural expansion. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Boycott (XB - Life peer) to some increase in agricultural imports to the UK. - Speech Link
5: None It is not necessarily effective to link this to the free trade agreements in terms of monitoring relating - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Animal Welfare (Livestock Exports) Bill   - Mon 15 Jan 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Ruth Jones (Lab - Newport West) inspired by Labour’s track record of delivering on animal welfare, from ending the testing of cosmetic products - Speech Link
2: Sammy Wilson (DUP - East Antrim) I hope there will not be a loophole, because unfortunately, as a result of the agreements that the Government - Speech Link
3: Rachel Hopkins (Lab - Luton South) In fact, Labour has a track record of doing so in government, from ending the testing of cosmetic products - Speech Link
4: Mark Spencer (Con - Sherwood) The Bill deals with the export of live animals, not the import of products. - Speech Link
5: Ruth Jones (Lab - Newport West) Labour was in government, we made progress on animal welfare, including ending the testing of cosmetic products - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Climate Change: Impact on Developing Nations - Thu 11 Jan 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Whitty (Lab - Life peer) in line, but there are large areas of other countries, such as low-lying areas of Bangladesh, where agricultural - Speech Link
2: Lord Hannan of Kingsclere (Con - Life peer) Indeed, autocrats are as much products as sponsors of economic protectionism.What can we do if not use - Speech Link
3: Baroness Chakrabarti (Lab - Life peer) supervise and monitor their application; otherwise, nations that accept and abide by environmental agreements - Speech Link
4: Lord Benyon (Con - Life peer) investment in development, while strengthening and reforming the international system to improve action on trade - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [HL]
Committee stage: Minutes of Proceedings - Thu 14 Dec 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Earl of Clancarty (XB - Excepted Hereditary) New Zealand, through separate trade agreements. - Speech Link
2: Lord McNicol of West Kilbride (Lab - Life peer) for all 77 new products. - Speech Link
3: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) If we have trade preference agreements, they must be protected, and we have to ensure that there is no - Speech Link
4: None We have trade agreements with most of them already. - Speech Link
5: Lord Davies of Brixton (Lab - Life peer) The UK did not include ISDS in its recent trade agreements with Australia, New Zealand and Japan, and - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [HL]
Committee stage - Thu 07 Dec 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) They raised a slight concern: if there are further trade agreements where we offer equivalence of other - Speech Link
2: Lord Lansley (Con - Life peer) As we develop trade relations and as we develop free trade agreements, eliminating technical barriers - Speech Link
3: Lord Johnson of Lainston (Con - Life peer) attachés and the importance of making the most of our free trade agreements. - Speech Link