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Westminster Hall
Meat Exports to the EU - Wed 07 Jan 2026
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Kate Dearden (LAB - Halifax) I agree with him that our farmers and processors produce world-class beef, lamb, poultry and pork. - Speech Link
2: Kate Dearden (LAB - Halifax) debate is exports to the EU, colleagues know that Great Britain has introduced risk-based controls on imports - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Nitrogen Reduction, Recycling and Reuse (Environment and Climate Change Committee Report) - Tue 06 Jan 2026
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Trees (XB - Life peer) This reduces imports of synthetic fertiliser and mitigates the insecurity in the supply volatility of - Speech Link
2: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (Lab - Life peer) approach is going to build on and learn from the successful application of permitting in the pig and poultry - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Ben Goldsborough (Lab - South Norfolk) The poultry sector is worth £1.5 billion gross value added to our UK economy. - Speech Link
2: Jayne Kirkham (LAB - Truro and Falmouth) committed to end cruel practices such as puppy smuggling and to phase out animal testing and ban fur imports - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Land Use Change: Food Security - Tue 18 Nov 2025
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Wendy Morton (Con - Aldridge-Brownhills) produces some of the finest produce in the world, to the highest standard, and yet becomes dependent on imports - Speech Link
2: Wendy Morton (Con - Aldridge-Brownhills) We know that if we keep building over productive land, we will become more reliant on food imports and - Speech Link
3: Terry Jermy (Lab - South West Norfolk) The UK already imports a staggering 46% of its food. - Speech Link
4: Roz Savage (LD - South Cotswolds) deeply in an age of current and potential global shocks.As already mentioned, at the moment the UK imports - Speech Link
5: Josh Newbury (Lab - Cannock Chase) comparatively modest, and can in some cases remain compatible with farming, for example sheep and poultry - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Male Chick Culling - Thu 11 Sep 2025
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Irene Campbell (Lab - North Ayrshire and Arran) released a report, “Opinion on chick culling alternatives”, which called to ban male chick culling and imports - Speech Link
2: Danny Chambers (LD - Winchester) That is a successful programme in the dairy industry that could be replicated in the poultry industry - Speech Link
3: Irene Campbell (Lab - North Ayrshire and Arran) map with a timeline is introduced to phase out this cruel practice and that male chick culling and imports - Speech Link
4: Angela Eagle (Lab - Wallasey) of brother hens, I was pleased to hear about an initiative to assess the viability of dual-purpose poultry - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Free-Range Poultrymeat Marketing Standards (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2025 - Wed 10 Sep 2025
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (Lab - Life peer) Today is Back British Farming Day, and this instrument seeks to do just that: back our free-range poultry - Speech Link
2: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (Lab - Life peer) We have to do our part to support our poultry industry. - Speech Link


General Committees
Draft Free-Range Poultrymeat Marketing Standards (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2025 - Tue 02 Sep 2025
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Daniel Zeichner (Lab - Cambridge) had a good break.This statutory instrument has been laid to amend existing legislation governing poultry - Speech Link
2: Robbie Moore (Con - Keighley and Ilkley) poultry is primarily due to concerns for the welfare of the animal. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Farmed Animals: Cages and Crates - Mon 16 Jun 2025
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Irene Campbell (Lab - North Ayrshire and Arran) We must urgently phase out low animal welfare imports that do not meet our own animal welfare standards - Speech Link
2: Charlie Dewhirst (Con - Bridlington and The Wolds) that we bring the farming community along with us in this conversation, whether it is about pigs, poultry - Speech Link
3: Edward Morello (LD - West Dorset) Gentleman raises the incredibly important issue of imports. - Speech Link
4: Sarah Dyke (LD - Glastonbury and Somerton) Worryingly, research shows that intensive systems have ballooned, particularly in the pig and poultry - Speech Link
5: Daniel Zeichner (Lab - Cambridge) We are acutely aware of and concerned about imports produced using methods that are not permitted in - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Non-stun Slaughter of Animals - Mon 09 Jun 2025
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Jamie Stone (LD - Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross) That process can take up to 20 seconds in sheep, 2 minutes in cattle and 2.5 minutes in poultry. - Speech Link
2: Jamie Stone (LD - Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross) in a second.Such provisions include post-cut stunning for ruminants, minimum-stun parameters for poultry - Speech Link
3: Iqbal Mohamed (Ind - Dewsbury and Batley) We have already heard about gas stunning and killing, which is primarily used for pigs and some poultry - Speech Link
4: Shockat Adam (Ind - Leicester South) Electrical stunning, often used in poultry, involves passing a high voltage current through the brain - Speech Link
5: Daniel Zeichner (Lab - Cambridge) The number of poultry and cattle that are not stunned before slaughter actually decreased between 2011 - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Animal Welfare in Farming - Tue 03 Jun 2025
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Adrian Ramsay (Green - Waveney Valley) That is why we must commit to banning imports produced to standards that would not comply with those - Speech Link
2: Sam Carling (Lab - North West Cambridgeshire) Nearly 50% of pork imports come from countries where pregnant pigs remain confined in narrow sow stalls - Speech Link
3: Sadik Al-Hassan (Lab - North Somerset) Humane slaughter rules already apply to meat imports—as we have heard—so why should welfare standards - Speech Link