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Lords Chamber
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill
Committee stage - Mon 22 Apr 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Lord Khan of Burnley (Lab - Life peer) lease where the house is comprised in … (a) an agricultural holding within the meaning of the Agricultural - Speech Link
2: Baroness Pinnock (LD - Life peer) The second is to do with agricultural leases.I would like the Minister to explain, first, why agricultural - Speech Link
3: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Con - Life peer) that most leaseholders will purchase their freehold, where they are able to do so.We are exempting agreements - Speech Link
4: Earl of Lytton (XB - Excepted Hereditary) , or fight a case, on an assignment of a lease in order to see off that person and their particular trade - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
English Horticultural Sector (Horticultural Sector Committee Report) - Fri 19 Apr 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Redesdale (LD - Life peer) The sector faces multiple challenges, including post-Brexit trade problems. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Hamwee (LD - Life peer) What binding agreements are there in respect of fair recruitment? - Speech Link
3: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (Lab - Life peer) Perhaps the Minister could update us.We have also heard quite a bit about trade. - Speech Link
4: Lord Douglas-Miller (Con - Life peer) Consignments of medium-risk and high-risk plants and plant products will attract a charge of £29 but, - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Food Security - Tue 26 Mar 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (Con - Life peer) products will meet the same high animal welfare and environmental standards as those produced in this - Speech Link
2: Lord Trees (XB - Life peer) In negotiating free trade agreements, will His Majesty’s Government set minimum environmental and animal - Speech Link
3: Lord Douglas-Miller (Con - Life peer) Both Defra and the Government have been crystal clear that agriculture is at the forefront of any trade - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Fair Dealing Obligations (Milk) Regulations 2024 - Mon 25 Mar 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: None The consultation responses revealed quite a worrying number of instances where the agreements farmers - Speech Link
2: Lord Grantchester (Lab - Excepted Hereditary) Their dominance in the grocery trade has migrated milk away from doorstep deliveries. - Speech Link
3: None Farmers are generally not used to taking their products beyond the farm gate. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (Lab - Life peer) Transform Trade sent an interesting briefing expressing its concerns around departmental fragmentation - Speech Link
5: Lord Douglas-Miller (Con - Life peer) We are currently recruiting our new agricultural supply chain adjudicator. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership (IAC Report) - Tue 19 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Lord Lansley (Con - Life peer) , open trade, a rules-based trading system and not simply to bilateral agreements but to plurilateral - Speech Link
2: Lord Anderson of Swansea (Lab - Life peer) Yet such bilateral or plurilateral agreements should be put in perspective: the best trade agreement - Speech Link
3: Lord Kerr of Kinlochard (XB - Life peer) Trade agreements back then were negotiated for us by the European Commission’s experts, most of them - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [Lords]
Report stage - Tue 19 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Iain Duncan Smith (Con - Chingford and Woodford Green) That is why the new clause is needed.Under UK trade policy, it is not unusual for bilateral trade agreements - Speech Link
2: Stella Creasy (LAB - Walthamstow) The Trade and Agriculture Commission has warned of the potential increased costs of products due to tariff - Speech Link
3: Thérèse Coffey (Con - Suffolk Coastal) There are certainly far more agricultural attachés now. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Public Procurement (British Goods and Services) Bill
2nd reading - Fri 15 Mar 2024
Northern Ireland Office

Mentions:
1: Sarah Champion (Lab - Rotherham) Services (Social Value) Act 2012 and the Procurement Act 2023 to encourage greater uptake of British products - Speech Link
2: Sarah Champion (Lab - Rotherham) The Office for National Statistics reported that over 6,000 agricultural businesses have closed since - Speech Link
3: Lloyd Russell-Moyle (LAB - Brighton, Kemptown) It is about ensuring that we say, “Yes, we want free, fair and open trade, but we also want trade that - Speech Link
4: Nia Griffith (Lab - Llanelli) Organisation’s agreement on Government procurement and other international free trade agreements, which - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 13 Mar 2024
Wales Office

Mentions:
1: David T C Davies (Con - Monmouth) The Welsh Labour Government’s sustainable farming scheme involves taking 20% of prime Welsh agricultural - Speech Link
2: Luke Evans (Con - Bosworth) One of the best ways we can support Welsh farmers is by choosing to buy British products. - Speech Link
3: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) The Department for Business and Trade will be responsible for the new redress scheme, and we are widening - Speech Link
4: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) Sport is working with Sport England, as the agent, to talk to borrowers with concerns about their loan agreements—any - Speech Link
5: Natalie Elphicke (Con - Dover) keep Dover clear, support the residents of Dover and Deal—and Kent—and secure our vital cross-channel trade - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
International Women’s Day - Fri 08 Mar 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Baroness Hodgson of Abinger (Con - Life peer) As noble Lords will know, you cannot achieve sustainable peace agreements in conflict areas unless you - Speech Link
2: Baroness Rock (Con - Life peer) Rural economies heavily depend on the contributions of women, who engage in wide-ranging agricultural - Speech Link
3: Baroness Brinton (LD - Life peer) She and the noble Baroness, Lady Sater, also talked about exclusion from financial products. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Thornton (Lab - Life peer) of London.The report was particularly concerned to hear of the widespread misuse of non-disclosure agreements—NDAs—which - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Groceries Code Adjudicator - Tue 05 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Alistair Carmichael (LD - Orkney and Shetland) of trade deals with other countries in other parts of the world. - Speech Link
2: Kevin Hollinrake (Con - Thirsk and Malton) including some but not the majority of farmers.While the code prevents the unilateral variation of supply agreements - Speech Link
3: Kevin Hollinrake (Con - Thirsk and Malton) The Government also want farmers to get a fair price for their products—that was the opening and closing - Speech Link