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Lords Chamber
Trade Bill
Report stage:Report: 2nd sitting (Hansard) - Tue 15 Dec 2020
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Earl of Caithness (CON - Excepted Hereditary) Some 80% of our fruit comes from Europe, along with 50% of our vegetables. - Speech Link
2: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LDEM - Life peer) On a recent visit to my nearest Sainsbury’s in Kelso in the Scottish Borders, I looked at the fruit department - Speech Link
3: Lord Lansley (CON - Life peer) unilateral preference schemeand, indeed, I might say to my noble friend the Minister, an even more - Speech Link
4: Lord Bruce of Bennachie (LDEM - Life peer) accelerating the spread of Covid-19 in the process—while being reluctant to extend the provision of free school - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Free School Meals - Wed 21 Oct 2020
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Brendan O'Hara (SNP - Argyll and Bute) Bizarrely, that same UK Government spokesperson said of the summer holiday school meal scheme:“This is - Speech Link
2: Wera Hobhouse (LDEM - Bath) During the covid crisis, the Government suspended the fruit and veg scheme, and it was only reinstated - Speech Link
3: Wera Hobhouse (LDEM - Bath) The fruit and veg scheme is such an important scheme. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Agriculture Bill
Consideration of Commons amendmentsPing Pong (Hansard) - Tue 20 Oct 2020
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Gardiner of Kimble (Non-affiliated - Life peer) Incident Investigation Scheme. - Speech Link
2: Lord Krebs (CB - Life peer) The 5 A Day campaign has not altered fruit and vegetable consumption one iota over the last decade. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville (LDEM - Life peer) The Welsh Government have announced that free school meal provision will be extended through every school - Speech Link
4: Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville (LDEM - Life peer) land management scheme had become fully operational. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 15 Oct 2020
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Richard Thomson (SNP - Gordon) What assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the (a) Pick for Britain scheme and (b) seasonal - Speech Link
2: Jessica Morden (LAB - Newport East) will they follow the Welsh Government in guaranteeing free school meals during holidays until Easter - Speech Link
3: Alan Brown (SNP - Kilmarnock and Loudoun) Fruit and vegetable growers have relied on skilled European seasonal workers to get food into shops and - Speech Link
4: Andrew Selous (CON - South West Bedfordshire) We will address both practice and culture within the Church and are working on a redress scheme for victims - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Agriculture Bill
Report stage:Report: 2nd sitting (Hansard) - Thu 17 Sep 2020
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: None and vegetable, and processed fruit and vegetable, sectors, and(c) so far as relating to producer organisations - Speech Link
2: None and vegetable, and processed fruit and vegetable, sectors, and(c) so far as relating to producer organisations - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Agriculture Bill
Report stage - Tue 15 Sep 2020
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (GRN - Life peer) with fruit and vegetables. - Speech Link
2: Lord Northbrook (CON - Excepted Hereditary) It states:“The nation is only 18% self-sufficient in fruit, 55% in fresh vegetables and 71% in potatoes - Speech Link
3: Baroness Boycott (CB - Life peer) It strikes me that, unless you are at a public school and the idea of a farm, as something possible, - Speech Link
4: None will be working closely with the industry to design a replacement for the EU fruit and vegetable aid - Speech Link
5: None quantity of the fruit and vegetables they grow. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill
Committee stage - Mon 07 Sep 2020
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Garden of Frognal (LDEM - Life peer) destroy all the good will and soft power benefits created by school exchange visits, English language - Speech Link
2: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (CON - Life peer) I would also like to add food production, farming, and vegetable and fruit growing. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Agriculture Bill
Committee stage:Committee: 7th sitting (Hansard) - Tue 28 Jul 2020
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LDEM - Life peer) we have a farm assurance scheme that 90% of our chickens, turkeys and ducks are reared to.Finally, I - Speech Link
2: Lord Cameron of Dillington (CB - Life peer) plants, such as tomatoes, that can be grown in an urban context—small plants that are covered with fruit - Speech Link
3: Lord Taylor of Holbeach (CON - Life peer) Elsoms works with a wide range of different crops, including small-scale vegetable crops and speciality - Speech Link
4: Baroness Northover (LDEM - Life peer) The University of Bristol Law School has noted:“It seems that the desire to ‘take back control’ from - Speech Link
5: Lord Gardiner of Kimble (Non-affiliated - Life peer) scheme and cross-compliance rules in 2021. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Agriculture Bill
Committee stage:Committee: 6th sitting (Hansard) - Thu 23 Jul 2020
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Carrington (CB - Excepted Hereditary) A vegetable or fruit grower in Lincolnshire, or wherever, will soon give up his labour-intensive operation - Speech Link
2: Lord McConnell of Glenscorrodale (LAB - Life peer) in the school environment away from school into full-time volunteering in agricultural and forestry - Speech Link
3: Lord Gardiner of Kimble (Non-affiliated - Life peer) and vegetable farms and to link jobseekers with farms looking for seasonal workers. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Finlay of Llandaff (CB - Life peer) milk, including school milk. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill
2nd reading (Hansard) - Wed 22 Jul 2020
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Lilley (CON - Life peer) Untrue—there are 10 applicants for every place in a medical school, and we turned away 35,000 applicants - Speech Link
2: Lord Kilclooney (CB - Life peer) 83% of school staff are now on furlough. - Speech Link
3: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (CON - Life peer) There are also the farm workers, who pick the vegetables and fruit at this time of year. - Speech Link
4: Earl of Shrewsbury (CON - Excepted Hereditary) We have seen the reported problems caused by the lack of immigrant labour for fruit and vegetable harvesting - Speech Link
5: Lord Kennedy of Southwark (LAB - Life peer) who have picked our fruit and vegetables in the hot sun and worked in food processing and other essential - Speech Link