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Commons Chamber
Agriculture Bill
2nd reading - Mon 03 Feb 2020
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Kerry McCarthy (LAB - Bristol East) , the US wish list now includes: abandoning the precautionary principle for food and farming; accepting - Speech Link
2: Caroline Lucas (GRN - Brighton, Pavilion) I would like that vision to take shape as a green new deal for the food and farming sector. - Speech Link
3: Philip Dunne (CON - Ludlow) British food and drink and for our environment. - Speech Link
4: Theo Clarke (CON - Stafford) for farming and our environment. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
A Green Industrial Revolution - Wed 15 Jan 2020
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Andrea Leadsom (CON - South Northamptonshire) people across our shores, and a sustainable future for our planet. - Speech Link
2: Bob Stewart (CON - Beckenham) , Food and Rural Affairs. - Speech Link
3: Kerry McCarthy (LAB - Bristol East) , Food and Rural Affairs. - Speech Link
4: Claire Coutinho (CON - East Surrey) , Food and Rural Affairs. - Speech Link
5: Deidre Brock (SNP - Edinburgh North and Leith) , Food and Rural Affairs. - Speech Link
6: Wera Hobhouse (LDEM - Bath) transport, for energy and for our homes? - Speech Link
7: Alex Sobel (LAB - Leeds North West) For our country, for our way of life and for generations to follow, we can and must do all we can to - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Restoring Nature and Climate Change - Mon 28 Oct 2019
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Kerry McCarthy (LAB - Bristol East) group on agroecology for sustainable food and farming, which I chair, did a three-part inquiry. - Speech Link
2: Kerry McCarthy (LAB - Bristol East) the all-party parliamentary group on agroecology for sustainable food and farming, which does excellent - Speech Link
3: Luke Pollard (LAB - Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport) Friends the Members for Bristol East and for Ellesmere Port and Neston, and the right hon. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Queen’s Speech - Thu 17 Oct 2019
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (GRN - Life peer) , farming and land use that Greens and others have been advocating for decades.I welcome the proposed - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (GRN - Life peer) referred to the Government’s aims for farming, and food was not mentioned. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Mallalieu (LAB - Life peer) The food and farming industry generates £108 billion a year, our food manufacturing industry employs - Speech Link
4: Earl of Caithness (CON - Excepted Hereditary) food and for conservation. - Speech Link
5: Earl of Shrewsbury (CON - Excepted Hereditary) wilding, all of which produce cover and food around the year for both songbirds and game birds. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Amazon Deforestation - Mon 07 Oct 2019
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Kerry McCarthy (LAB - Bristol East) for sustainable food and farming, of which the Pasture-Fed Livestock Association is an active member—but - Speech Link
2: Rachael Maskell (LAB - York Central) When I was a shadow Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Minister, I was looking at the - Speech Link
3: Chris Law (SNP - Dundee West) We are all familiar with the reasons for deforestation: the expansion of extensive cattle farming and - Speech Link
4: Kerry McCarthy (LAB - Bristol East) for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and not anything to do with her. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Modern Farming and the Environment - Tue 12 Mar 2019
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Kerry McCarthy (LAB - Bristol East) for sustainable food and farming, I support the idea of a whole-farm system based on nature-friendly - Speech Link
2: Rebecca Pow (CON - Taunton Deane) and sustainable environment where farming is the key driver. - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) In Strangford, the farming and food industry is a massive employer. - Speech Link
4: Luke Pollard (LAB - Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport) Public subsidies have been used to fund destructive food and farming practices for too long. - Speech Link
5: Robert Goodwill (CON - Scarborough and Whitby) Not only did he serve the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs so expertly for five years - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Exiting the European Union (Agriculture) - Wed 20 Feb 2019
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: George Eustice (CON - Camborne and Redruth) It provides for the definition, composition, labelling and packaging requirements for specific categories - Speech Link
2: David Drew (LAB - Stroud) The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs does not seem to be very good at producing such - Speech Link
3: Deidre Brock (SNP - Edinburgh North and Leith) This is one of hundreds of statutory instruments that the Department for Environment, Food and Rural - Speech Link
4: George Eustice (CON - Camborne and Redruth) Members for Stroud and for Edinburgh North and Leith asked about the specific issue of tariffs on fertilisers - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Climate Change - Thu 24 Jan 2019
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Lord Teverson (LDEM - Life peer) the disastrous Copenhagen conference and aim for 2 degrees and hopefully 1.5 degrees. - Speech Link
2: Lord Hunt of Chesterton (LAB - Life peer) Secondly, we should review and identify new and appropriate technologies and strategies for urban areas - Speech Link
3: Lord Rees of Ludlow (CB - Life peer) weather will aggravate pressures on food and water and enhance migration pressure. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Brown of Cambridge (CB - Life peer) for households, farmers and industry; risks to our plants, wildlife and beautiful places; risks to food - Speech Link
5: Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer (LDEM - Life peer) and windbreaks for animals. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Agriculture Bill (Fourteenth sitting)
Committee Debate: 14th sitting: House of Commons - Tue 20 Nov 2018
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: None restoration of the environment, so that the environment is healthy, resilient and sustainable for the - Speech Link
2: None to the natural environment and understanding of sustainable farming; and(d) opportunities for innovation - Speech Link
3: David Drew (LAB - Stroud) opportunities for people to look at the front end of farming and see ways in which to do things differently - Speech Link
4: None happening in farming, and that this legislation is fit for purpose in the 21st century. - Speech Link
5: David Drew (LAB - Stroud) Some FBTs have been for as short two years, and anyone who knows anything about farming knows that people - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Agriculture Bill (Ninth sitting) - Tue 13 Nov 2018
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Baroness Chapman of Darlington (LAB - Life peer) in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs are by and large required by legislation. - Speech Link
2: David Drew (LAB - Stroud) for investment and support through the nature of farming—obviously, a lot of the people who get the - Speech Link
3: Kerry McCarthy (LAB - Bristol East) meeting the food waste target, as most of the time they are not responsible for food waste, and I absolutely - Speech Link
4: David Drew (LAB - Stroud) Friend for this group of amendments, which are important in terms of both food waste and how our food - Speech Link
5: None central to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs’ operation. - Speech Link