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Lords Chamber
Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Regulations 2025 - Tue 06 May 2025
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (Lab - Life peer) ensure that information about precision-bred organisms authorised for marketing and for use in food - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) I am pro food security, pro agroecology and pro working for farmers and consumers and not for multinational - Speech Link
3: Baroness Freeman of Steventon (XB - Life peer) PB food market, making it less affordable, reducing the incentives for food businesses to innovate and - Speech Link
4: Baroness Grender (LD - Life peer) pesticides and fertilisers, and in mitigation against disease and pest issues for food and food crops.We - Speech Link
5: None Our own policy paper, Food and Farming, set out our vision for food labelling that empowers consumers - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Small Farms and Family Businesses - Thu 12 Dec 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Baroness Shephard of Northwold (Con - Life peer) and for the promotion of British food and the pausing of capital grant offers. - Speech Link
2: Earl of Caithness (Con - Excepted Hereditary) This will have a significant implication for food production and food security. - Speech Link
3: Lord Marlesford (Con - Life peer) Since the dawn of civilisation, family farming has provided seed for enterprise, food and survival. - Speech Link
4: Lord Northbrook (Con - Excepted Hereditary) at 250 acres for a farming couple and 100 acres for a single farmer. - Speech Link
5: Lord Livermore (Lab - Life peer) for sustainable food production in our history. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Public Sector Food Procurement - Tue 12 Dec 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Anthony Mangnall (Con - Totnes) of support for our food, farming and fishing communities, but necessitate an oversight body to ensure - Speech Link
2: Kerry McCarthy (Lab - Bristol East) When I chaired the all-party parliamentary group on agroecology for sustainable food and farming, we - Speech Link
3: Kerry McCarthy (Lab - Bristol East) Land use and food systems were meant to be on the agenda at COP for the first time, and I hope that the - Speech Link
4: Sarah Dyke (LD - Somerton and Frome) Food for Life and its partners are calling for reforms to the way that food producers and public sector - Speech Link
5: Steven Bonnar (SNP - Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill) Member for Totnes (Anthony Mangnall) for securing this debate on public sector food procurement and nutritional - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
International Women’s Day - Fri 10 Mar 2023
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (CON - Life peer) The priority theme for 2023 is innovation and technological change and education in the digital age for - Speech Link
2: Baroness Donaghy (LAB - Life peer) Can the noble Baroness say more about sustainable funding for women’s refuges and specialist services - Speech Link
3: Lord Monks (LAB - Life peer) It was common for my fellow male workers at the time to give their wives £5 to cover family food and - Speech Link
4: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (GRN - Life peer) food companies and industrial farming systems. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Glasgow Leaders’ Declaration on Forests and Land Use - Mon 28 Nov 2022
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Willis of Summertown (CB - Life peer) Can the Minister reassure us that land use for agroecology and other sustainable farming practices that - Speech Link
2: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LDEM - Life peer) ownership and for their own entrepreneurial liberties and freedoms. - Speech Link
3: Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park (CON - Life peer) default for much of the deforestation that we see, for example, in the Congo Basin, Indonesia and elsewhere - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Climate Change and Biodiversity: Food Security - Thu 08 Sep 2022
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Baroness Boycott (CB - Life peer) for the farmers and food producers in the UK. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (LAB - Life peer) system and provide more nutritious and accessible food for the nation. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Young of Old Scone (LAB - Life peer) Climate change, biodiversity decline, and food and survival catastrophes for people across the world - Speech Link
4: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (LAB - Life peer) , increased land titles for indigenous peoples and local communities, finance for agroecology and actions - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Food Security - Thu 31 Mar 2022
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Deidre Brock (SNP - Edinburgh North and Leith) but for food processors and manufacturers, and ultimately for prices in supermarkets.Of course, millions - Speech Link
2: Luke Pollard (LAB - Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport) an issue for people who bang on about farming, like myself and the hon. - Speech Link
3: Alyn Smith (SNP - Stirling) Member for Tiverton and Honiton (Neil Parish) and I have been banging on about food security for the - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Genetically Modified Organisms (Deliberate Release) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2022 - Mon 14 Mar 2022
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville (LDEM - Life peer) My Lords, I thank the Minister for his excellent introduction, and for his time and that of his officials - Speech Link
2: Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (LAB - Life peer) of artificially modified organisms in the land and air, and ultimately in their food, is safe. - Speech Link
3: Lord Benyon (CON - Life peer) for increasing the health benefits of fruit and veg. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (GRN - Life peer) to grow food for animals or to produce fuel crops. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Environment Bill
Report stage - Wed 15 Sep 2021
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: None and will respond with a White Paper, setting out our priorities for the food system. - Speech Link
2: None use, balancing the range of needs for land, including agriculture and food production;(b) achievement - Speech Link
3: Baroness Young of Old Scone (LAB - Life peer) land for carbon sequestration, for food production and increasing our food security, for tree planting - Speech Link
4: None that lead to us producing the kind of food that is bad for people and the planet, or whether we are - Speech Link
5: Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (LAB - Life peer) other, maybe more pressing, needs.Which land should be used for growing food and which for nature recovery - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Environment Bill - Mon 13 Sep 2021
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Carrington (CB - Excepted Hereditary) For most farming businesses these are no small matters and could result in significant loss and danger - Speech Link
2: Earl of Caithness (CON - Excepted Hereditary) Farming and nature cannot be divided or separated; they have been separated for too long and here is - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (GRN - Life peer) of, and support for, the important work of nature-friendly farming. - Speech Link
4: Earl of Dundee (CON - Excepted Hereditary) Network, Sustain, the Landworkers’ Alliance and the Food, Farming and Countryside Commission.My noble - Speech Link
5: None This is an example of how we can use our countryside far more productively for nature and for farming - Speech Link