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Grand Committee
Agriculture (Delinked Payments) (Reductions) (England) Regulations 2024 - Mon 20 May 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Douglas-Miller (Con - Life peer) payments as planned, we are freeing up money so that farmers can access a wide range of environmental land - Speech Link
2: Earl Russell (LD - Excepted Hereditary) It is doing this over an agricultural transition period (2021 to 2027), as provided for in its Agriculture - Speech Link
3: Lord Douglas-Miller (Con - Life peer) that you owned, the smaller the chunk of land, the less money you get. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Community Sports: Impact on Young People - Thu 16 May 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Lord Drayson (Lab - Life peer) sustainable fuels and will use 100% sustainable fuel from 2026.In 2013, the UK team set the new world land-speed - Speech Link
2: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (Con - Life peer) Paralympic sport generates 1.3% of GVA, making it a larger contributor to the UK economy than, for instance, agriculture - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Biodiversity Loss - Wed 15 May 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Caroline Lucas (Green - Brighton, Pavilion) : climate change and our intensive agriculture system. - Speech Link
2: Theresa Villiers (Con - Chipping Barnet) was at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, I also introduced to Parliament the Agriculture - Speech Link
3: Sarah Dyke (LD - Somerton and Frome) Intensive agriculture has been a key driver of biodiversity loss, but that must change. - Speech Link
4: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) to do in Northern Ireland, and we have some targets that the Department back home—the Department of Agriculture - Speech Link
5: Steven Bonnar (SNP - Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill) strategy sets out how key sectors will deliver work to combat biodiversity loss, including in planning, agriculture - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Agriculture - Mon 13 May 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Mark Spencer (Con - Sherwood) I beg to move,That the draft Agriculture (Delinked Payments) (Reductions) (England) Regulations 2024 - Speech Link
2: Mark Spencer (Con - Sherwood) Alongside that, we are pushing to improve gene editing and gene technology, to try to make agriculture - Speech Link
3: Steve Reed (LAB - Croydon North) policy—a new dawn for British agriculture post Brexit. - Speech Link
4: Bill Wiggin (Con - North Herefordshire) We need to be competing with Germany and Holland in the way we approach agriculture. - Speech Link
5: George Eustice (Con - Camborne and Redruth) land were able to charge higher rents to those who needed to rent land in order to farm. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 09 May 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) May—Motion to approve the draft Procurement Regulations 2024, followed by motion to approve the draft Agriculture - Speech Link
2: Tobias Ellwood (Con - Bournemouth East) Wessex Fields is a large chunk of council-owned land in north Bournemouth. - Speech Link
3: Tonia Antoniazzi (Lab - Gower) Today, we are hosting an event called the National Women in Agriculture Awards, celebrating women in - Speech Link
4: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) UK who is providing this fundamental service—food production— to our population, and caring for the land - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 09 May 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Robbie Moore (Con - Keighley) Nationally, fly-tipping on public land has fallen for the second year in a row, with enforcement actions - Speech Link
2: Edward Leigh (Con - Gainsborough) Has any Agriculture Minister ever met a farmer who has denied that 3b land is just as good for growing - Speech Link
3: Steve Barclay (Con - North East Cambridgeshire) We recognise that this is part of a wider debate about the clustering of solar sites on farm- land. - Speech Link
4: Andrew Bridgen (Ind - North West Leicestershire) Does the Minister agree that good agricultural land must be protected to produce good food? - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Animal Welfare (Livestock Exports) Bill
Report stage - Wed 08 May 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Baroness Hodgson of Abinger (Con - Life peer) My noble friend Lady Fookes and I tried to get it into the Agriculture Bill a few years ago. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville (LD - Life peer) on at 8.30 am and clock off at 5.30 pm; it is a way of life, a vocation that involves a love of the land - Speech Link
3: Lord Douglas-Miller (Con - Life peer) the animals and accompanying health certificates must be presented to an officer of the Department of Agriculture - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
National Grid: Pylons - Thu 02 May 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Matt Warman (Con - Boston and Skegness) , but that is a project for a number of years and the land is never, as any farmer will tell us, quite - Speech Link
2: Virginia Crosbie (Con - Ynys Môn) They are also concerned about the impact on two of our most important sectors: agriculture and food security - Speech Link
3: James Wild (Con - North West Norfolk) Much of the land on the proposed route is grade 1 arable land. - Speech Link
4: Dave Doogan (SNP - Angus) That is not making landfall; that is transmitting down the land of the island. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Checks on Goods Entering UK - Mon 29 Apr 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) scheme, which actively disincentivises the production of food on good-quality, productive agricultural land - Speech Link
2: Mark Spencer (Con - Sherwood) Actually, on increased food prices in Wales, the biggest danger is taking 20% of land away from Welsh - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Pakistan: UK Aid - Thu 25 Apr 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Harries of Pentregarth (XB - Life peer) target issues specifically facing Dalits, who are floundering in a vicious cycle of poverty and lack of land - Speech Link
2: Lord Collins of Highbury (Lab - Life peer) Apart from brick kilns, bonded labour is most prevalent in agriculture, and the carpet-weaving and mining - Speech Link