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Commons Chamber
Education Settings: Wider Opening - Tue 09 Jun 2020
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Rebecca Long Bailey (LAB - Salford and Eccles) these regions.Finally, the Government have confirmed that the free school meal voucher scheme will not - Speech Link
2: Tim Loughton (CON - East Worthing and Shoreham) travel or get a job, by getting them to work alongside some of these children in a national mentoring scheme - Speech Link
3: Stephen Metcalfe (CON - South Basildon and East Thurrock) Friend therefore also look at reintroducing the vital school fruit and vegetable scheme as soon as possible - Speech Link
4: Gavin Williamson (CON - South Staffordshire) The fruit and vegetable scheme is led by the Department of Health and Social Care, but I will be in contact - Speech Link
5: Gavin Williamson (CON - South Staffordshire) On top of that, there is the furlough scheme and we have been able to offer rates relief to many of those - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Food Supply and Security - Thu 14 May 2020
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Ramsbotham (CB - Life peer) Vegetable and fruit farmers say that they cannot meet the demand without these foreign workers. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Parminter (LDEM - Life peer) and vegetable harvest is short, and those products have a short shelf life. - Speech Link
3: Lord Sheikh (CON - Life peer) fruit and vegetable pickers. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville (LDEM - Life peer) On 6 March 2019, the Government implemented a pilot scheme to allow fruit and vegetable farmers to employ - Speech Link
5: Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (LAB - Life peer) Can he explain what is being done to solve the school meal voucher fiasco, where the Edenred scheme seems - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Windrush Compensation Scheme - Wed 06 May 2020
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Benjamin (LDEM - Life peer) at school to celebrate British history. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Wilcox of Newport (LAB - Life peer) and finally Priory Park School—now all amalgamated and changed. - Speech Link
3: Lord Berkeley (LAB - Life peer) Then, of course, there are the fruit and vegetable pickers; we now have to fly them in from Bulgaria, - Speech Link
4: Baroness Hamwee (LDEM - Life peer) I threw away my school reports when I cleared my mother’s house. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Agriculture Bill (Fifth sitting)
Committee stage: 5th sitting - Tue 25 Feb 2020
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Daniel Zeichner (LAB - Cambridge) to the Committee estimates that, if there were a gradual increase in land use for fruit and vegetable - Speech Link
2: Victoria Prentis (CON - Banbury) various programmes, including the healthy start, the school fruit and vegetable and the nursery milk - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Bob Seely (CON - Isle of Wight) vegetable box erectors on the Island. - Speech Link
2: Kerry McCarthy (LAB - Bristol East) Friend for the brilliant work she has done with the Food Foundation and on school food. - Speech Link
3: Anthony Browne (CON - South Cambridgeshire) It is where I grew up, went to school and got married. - Speech Link
4: Theo Clarke (CON - Stafford) The seasonal workers pilot scheme needs to be running quicker, or fruit will go unpicked this season. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Queen’s Speech - Mon 21 Oct 2019
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe (LAB - Life peer) Under this scheme, those found guilty of offences, in many instances involving violence, but who manage - Speech Link
2: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (LAB - Life peer) Questions about the future of funding after March 2020 for the very successful national school breakfast - Speech Link
3: Baroness Humphreys (LDEM - Life peer) the Swansea Bay tidal lagoon scheme. - Speech Link
4: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (CON - Life peer) from EU countries whom we hope will work on our fruit and vegetable farms and deliver our health and - Speech Link
5: Baroness Butler-Sloss (CB - Life peer) Would the Government at least consider a pilot scheme? - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Agriculture (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 - Wed 16 Oct 2019
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: None : import documentation for hops; certificates of conformity for fruit and vegetables issued by other - Speech Link
2: None ; labelling of packages of fruit and vegetables; and import documentation for hops. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (LAB - Life peer) from third countries attesting that a fruit or vegetable product meets marketing standards requirements - Speech Link
4: None some of the design elements of school milk schemes. - Speech Link


General Committees
Draft Common Organisation of the Markets in Agricultural Products and Common Agricultural Policy (Miscellaneous Amendments etc.) (EU exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2019 - Tue 08 Oct 2019
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: George Eustice (CON - Camborne and Redruth) and some of the design elements of a school milk scheme. - Speech Link
2: David Drew (LAB - Stroud) Why are olives no longer part of the scheme? - Speech Link
3: George Eustice (CON - Camborne and Redruth) For example, a five-year or 10-year scheme under the agri-environment schemes would be supported for - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Employment - Thu 06 Jun 2019
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Lord Northbrook (CON - Excepted Hereditary) visa regime to retain the seasonal workforce required by the agricultural industry, especially in the fruit - Speech Link
2: Baroness Sherlock (LAB - Life peer) If you are aged 18 to 21 and you make a claim for universal credit, you are put into the scheme, given - Speech Link
3: Baroness Stedman-Scott (CON - Life peer) We believe that the Work and Health programme, Access to Work, the Disability Confident scheme and the - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Children’s Future Food Inquiry - Wed 08 May 2019
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Kerry McCarthy (LAB - Bristol East) public funds; expanding the school fruit and vegetable scheme so that all children can benefit; and supporting - Speech Link
2: David Linden (SNP - Glasgow East) I was the son of a single parent, living in a deprived community, and fruit and vegetables were seen - Speech Link
3: Philippa Whitford (SNP - Central Ayrshire) Some 46% of advertising is about rubbish food and only 2.5% about fruit and vegetables. - Speech Link