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Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 18 Dec 2025
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Emma Reynolds (Lab - Wycombe) I or the Minister for Food Security and Rural Affairs will be delighted to meet his delegation. - Speech Link
2: Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Lab - Slough) No farmers, no food. - Speech Link
3: Lindsay Hoyle (Spk - Chorley) I call the Chair of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee. - Speech Link
4: Matt Vickers (Con - Stockton West) prices, on food security and on families who have farmed for generations. - Speech Link
5: Angela Eagle (Lab - Wallasey) It may well be that it is more expensive to produce food that is safe for coeliacs. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 18 Dec 2025
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: John Lamont (Con - Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk) The family farm tax will take effect, which will decimate our rural economy and undermine food security - Speech Link
2: Alan Campbell (Lab - Tynemouth) Let me take up the matter with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. - Speech Link
3: Chris Webb (Lab - Blackpool South) With no payments coming in, she is forced to rely on food banks and to borrow from family just to get - Speech Link
4: Danny Chambers (LD - Winchester) An emerging problem is the increased use of chatbots for mental health advice, especially by children - Speech Link
5: Mark Sewards (Lab - Leeds South West and Morley) They have used all their savings and now they are reliant on food banks. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Indices of Deprivation: England - Thu 18 Dec 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Chris Webb (Lab - Blackpool South) In the interim, she was denied a hardship payment and had no food or heating. - Speech Link
2: Chris Webb (Lab - Blackpool South) Meanwhile, Tia and her two young children were placed in a B&B with no cooking facilities, where - Speech Link
3: Miatta Fahnbulleh (LAB - Peckham) Over 1 million children will be lifted out of poverty as a result of the Government’s historic child - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Christmas Adjournment - Thu 18 Dec 2025
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Bob Blackman (Con - Harrow East) The school needs to be built urgently, because children are being sent for an hour and half each way - Speech Link
2: Alan Strickland (Lab - Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor) The centre has just opened a new extension, so that it can expand its food bank, but also so that it - Speech Link
3: Chris Webb (Lab - Blackpool South) Blackpool faces some of the highest levels of food-related ill health and deprivation in the country. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: None Negotiations on the food and drink agreement are also under way, which will enable food and agriculture - Speech Link
2: None We are working swiftly to conclude negotiations on the food and drink deal and on linking our carbon - Speech Link
3: None opportunities for young people and educators across the country, cutting energy bills or agreeing a food - Speech Link
4: Earl of Courtown (Con - Excepted Hereditary) If parents across the country are being asked to help fund opportunities for other people’s children - Speech Link
5: Baroness Wheatcroft (XB - Life peer) My Lords, this is really good news and I welcome it on all counts, in particular the food and drink deal - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Housing Development: Cumulative Impacts - Wed 17 Dec 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Damian Hinds (Con - East Hampshire) Of course, these days we are more acutely conscious than ever of the necessity for food security. - Speech Link
2: Ayoub Khan (Ind - Birmingham Perry Barr) I often hear about split families, with the husband and some children living in one part of the city - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
UK-EU Common Understanding Negotiations - Wed 17 Dec 2025
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Nick Thomas-Symonds (Lab - Torfaen) We are working swiftly to conclude negotiations on the food and drink deal and on linking our carbon - Speech Link
2: Nick Thomas-Symonds (Lab - Torfaen) A big advantage to our fishing sector, which exports 70% of its catch to the EU, is the food and drink - Speech Link
3: Al Pinkerton (LD - Surrey Heath) How confident is he that our food, drink and sanitary and phytosanitary scheme will be agreed by 2026 - Speech Link
4: Alistair Carmichael (LD - Orkney and Shetland) and Rural Affairs Committee, which is taking a close interest in the food and drink agreement. - Speech Link
5: Tom Hayes (Lab - Bournemouth East) When a Government invest in our children, our country starts to care about our future again. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Crime and Policing Bill
Committee stage part one - Wed 17 Dec 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Blencathra (Con - Life peer) He exhorted the food delivery companies to do more to tackle the issue. - Speech Link
2: None Why must the food delivery companies change? - Speech Link
3: None They have vicarious liability for the so-called independent riders they use to deliver their food. - Speech Link
4: None supplied by these food aggregators, since there is a 40% chance you will be ripped off. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Free School Meals - Tue 16 Dec 2025
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Baroness Verma (Con - Life peer) can benefit from knowing about food? - Speech Link
2: Baroness Smith of Malvern (Lab - Life peer) them to concentrate on their learning and to have the food and nutrition that all children need to be - Speech Link
3: Baroness Smith of Malvern (Lab - Life peer) I refer him to the good food cycle, the food strategy produced by my colleagues in Defra, which sets - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Mel Stride (Con - Central Devon) Farming also underpins our food security as a nation. - Speech Link
2: Ben Maguire (LD - North Cornwall) security and put food on our tables. - Speech Link
3: Sureena Brackenridge (Lab - Wolverhampton North East) I know the harm that poverty does to our children. - Speech Link