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Lords Chamber
UK-EU Common Understanding Negotiations - Thu 18 Dec 2025
Northern Ireland Office

Mentions:
1: None manifesto commitment to reset relations with our European partners; to tear down unnecessary barriers to trade - Speech Link
2: None We had to fix a bad deal passed on to us by the previous Government—the first trade deal in history that - Speech Link
3: None The 30% discount in 2027, compared with the default terms in the trade and co-operation agreement, has - Speech Link
4: None Negotiations on the food and drink agreement are also under way, which will enable food and agriculture - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Finance (No. 2) Bill
2nd reading - Tue 16 Dec 2025
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Mel Stride (Con - Central Devon) and Business Property Relief for Inheritance Tax which will devastate family farms, businesses and food - Speech Link
2: Mel Stride (Con - Central Devon) Farming also underpins our food security as a nation. - Speech Link
3: Ben Maguire (LD - North Cornwall) security and put food on our tables. - Speech Link
4: Sureena Brackenridge (Lab - Wolverhampton North East) We inherited a country where we have a rise in food banks—more food banks than branches of McDonald’s - Speech Link
5: Seamus Logan (SNP - Aberdeenshire North and Moray East) Good for the Treasury; potentially disastrous for national food security. As the hon. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Oil Refining Sector - Thu 11 Dec 2025
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Luke Taylor (LD - Sutton and Cheam) British agriculture and providing critical co-products such as carbon dioxide for the NHS, and for the food - Speech Link
2: Harriet Cross (Con - Gordon and Buchan) charged on gas-fired power generation too, and it is passed straight through to our constituents in wholesale - Speech Link
3: Katie White (Lab - Leeds North West) traditional fuels, global competition from mega-refineries in the middle east, India and Africa, changing trade - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
The UK’s Demographic Future - Thu 11 Dec 2025
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of Leicester (Bshp - Bishops) various thorny policy problems, each of which demands careful negotiation so as to manage conflicting trade-offs - Speech Link
2: Lord Blencathra (Con - Life peer) coming to this place, he served on various committees before David Cameron asked him to perform a wholesale - Speech Link
3: Lord Horam (Con - Life peer) There was, I am afraid to say, with the rather boring food we had in those days, a great deal of what - Speech Link
4: Baroness Finn (Con - Life peer) so many of the areas impacted by rapid population growth—biodiversity, national security, water and food - Speech Link
5: Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent (Lab - Life peer) move away from the sheer volume of SIs that there has been previously.The lack of data to understand trade-offs - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Fairtrade Certification - Thu 11 Dec 2025
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Katrina Murray (Lab - Cumbernauld and Kirkintilloch) Too often in global trade, people who grow and produce the food that we enjoy here in the UK take all - Speech Link
2: Rebecca Paul (Con - Reigate) As the Government have observed in the recent trade strategy, trade and development are not mutually - Speech Link
3: Chris Bryant (Lab - Rhondda and Ogmore) I have therefore always argued that we should strive for free and fair trade, not just free trade. - Speech Link
4: Sarah Olney (LD - Richmond Park) Would he not agree that fair trade is free trade, and that free trade is fair trade? - Speech Link
5: Martin Rhodes (Lab - Glasgow North) We want free trade, but if we free up trade and tear down barriers, and yet the underlying system does - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
2nd readingLorsd Hansard - Mon 08 Dec 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Lord Fuller (Con - Life peer) We should send the Bill back under the Trade Descriptions Act: it is about neither devolution nor community - Speech Link
2: Earl of Devon (XB - Excepted Hereditary) Add to that the promise of wholesale local government reorganisation—some 10 planning authorities in - Speech Link
3: Lord Teverson (LD - Life peer) this country but globally, in terms of its extraction of minerals, tin and copper, and international trade - Speech Link
4: Lord Borwick (Con - Excepted Hereditary) I have been connected with the taxi trade for about 45 years and I own my own wheelchair-accessible licensed - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Tue 02 Dec 2025
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Adrian Ramsay (Green - Waveney Valley) Kevin at the Waveney food bank hopes that one day he will be able to close the food bank for good, but - Speech Link
2: Carla Lockhart (DUP - Upper Bann) Food security is national security. - Speech Link
3: None Remedies Authority to initiate trade remedies investigations. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Mon 01 Dec 2025
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Claire Coutinho (Con - East Surrey) Food bills are up. Rents are up. The costs of holidays are up. Energy bills are up. - Speech Link
2: Rushanara Ali (Lab - Bethnal Green and Stepney) The Trussell Trust distributed approximately 60,000 food parcels in the 2010-11 financial year. - Speech Link
3: Chris Coghlan (LD - Dorking and Horley) It had fantastic food and a beautiful wood-panelled interior. - Speech Link
4: Ben Goldsborough (Lab - South Norfolk) That is unfair and unjust, and it threatens the foundations of our food security. - Speech Link
5: Richard Holden (Con - Basildon and Billericay) to the shops rises, and the cost to the supermarket selling the food rises? - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Thu 27 Nov 2025
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Mel Stride (Con - Central Devon) What does high inflation, particularly on food, do to poverty? - Speech Link
2: Paul Waugh (LAB - Rochdale) Many cut back on essentials such as food and heating because they have to. - Speech Link
3: Kirsty Blackman (SNP - Aberdeen North) Let us look at the current 4.9% level of food inflation. - Speech Link
4: John Hayes (Con - South Holland and The Deepings) Food production in this country is critical to my constituency, my hon. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Wed 26 Nov 2025
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Liam Byrne (Lab - Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North) because our food banks had run out of food. - Speech Link
2: Dave Doogan (SNP - Angus and Perthshire Glens) Labour promised to turn the page on high food prices, but households see food inflation running out of - Speech Link
3: Matt Western (Lab - Warwick and Leamington) In addition, the US trade deal is huge for this country, as is the India trade deal. - Speech Link
4: Janet Daby (Lab - Lewisham East) Food banks should be a thing of the past. - Speech Link
5: Ben Spencer (Con - Runnymede and Weybridge) Food inflation has gone up to 4.9%. - Speech Link