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Commons Chamber
Byers Gill Solar Farm - Mon 04 Mar 2024
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) That is what we want, not the loss of that land to solar farms. - Speech Link
2: Matt Vickers (Con - Stockton South) An area characterised by rurality, nature and agriculture looks set to become characterised by industry - Speech Link
3: Amanda Solloway (Con - Derby North) , brownfield land, contaminated land and industrial land. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Farming - Mon 04 Mar 2024
Wales Office

Mentions:
1: Steve Reed (LAB - Croydon North) We need a land use framework to make sure that the many competing demands on our land can work in balance - Speech Link
2: Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con - The Cotswolds) Friend is making an extremely knowledgeable speech about agriculture, as I would expect. - Speech Link
3: Thérèse Coffey (Con - Suffolk Coastal) land management scheme by 2028. - Speech Link
4: Edward Leigh (Con - Gainsborough) We put them on warehouses or inferior land, but not on good agricultural land in Lincolnshire and Norfolk - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Pollution in Rivers and Regulation of Private Water Companies - Thu 29 Feb 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Earl Russell (LD - Excepted Hereditary) The combined impacts of sewage discharges and pollution from farming and agriculture, chemicals, road - Speech Link
2: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (Lab - Life peer) According to Defra, agriculture is the main cause of river pollution incidents in England with intensive - Speech Link
3: Lord Douglas-Miller (Con - Life peer) This is regulated by the Sewage Sludge in Agriculture code of practice.The noble Lord, Lord Stoneham, - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Welsh Affairs - Thu 29 Feb 2024
Wales Office

Mentions:
1: David Jones (Con - Clwyd West) appreciable difference to the climate emergency.The Welsh Government’s plans, quite simply, will damage agriculture - Speech Link
2: Robin Millar (Con - Aberconwy) The north-west Wales economy is dominated by agriculture, tourism, hospitality, public sector employment - Speech Link
3: David T C Davies (Con - Monmouth) We calculated what agriculture was getting during the last control period—it was about £337 million a - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 28 Feb 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Steve Baker (Con - Wycombe) transition to the UK internal market system, we will provide clear legal direction to the Department of Agriculture - Speech Link
2: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) at Ken Stimson Community School from educational land to public open space. - Speech Link
3: Shailesh Vara (Con - North West Cambridgeshire) However, efforts are now being made to include this land in a revised Peterborough local plan. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 27 Feb 2024
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Karl McCartney (Con - Lincoln) It will increase energy generation and hopefully limit the amount of agricultural land being used to - Speech Link
2: Greg Smith (Con - Buckingham) What steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to help ensure that land used for food production is - Speech Link
3: Andrew Bowie (Con - West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine) developed low-grade land, and it is designed to avoid, mitigate and, where necessary, compensate for - Speech Link
4: Gregory Campbell (DUP - East Londonderry) , will the Minister have discussions with his colleagues in the Department of Agriculture, Environment - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Poverty Reduction - Thu 22 Feb 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of Hereford (Bshp - Bishops) My first degree was in agriculture and forest sciences, followed by a master’s in soil and water engineering - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Animal Welfare (Livestock Exports) Bill
2nd reading - Wed 21 Feb 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Douglas-Miller (Con - Life peer) I declare my interests as set out in the register, in particular my livestock farming and land management - Speech Link
2: Lord Trees (XB - Life peer) complex political and pragmatic reasons for that, which are associated with the Windsor Framework and the land - Speech Link
3: Baroness Hodgson of Abinger (Con - Life peer) , but I declare my interests as director of a company that owns a little farming land, and as a member - Speech Link
4: Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick (Lab - Life peer) I hope that all noble Lords recognise the economic and trading importance of agriculture to both parts - Speech Link
5: Lord Douglas-Miller (Con - Life peer) The Government are working with the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board and industry to help - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Ceasefire in Gaza - Wed 21 Feb 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: David Lammy (Lab - Tottenham) the voice of our nation heard to influence this war, and to help these tragic children of the same land - Speech Link
2: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) We have trebled our assistance, and we are pressing to get it into Gaza by all available routes—land, - Speech Link
3: Sam Tarry (Lab - Ilford South) The Minister for Agriculture called the war “the Gaza Nakba”, the Minister for Heritage raised the idea - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [ Lords ] (Second sitting)
Committee stage: 2nd sitting - Tue 20 Feb 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Greg Hands (Con - Chelsea and Fulham) That is part of the point of doing this: so that UK agriculture can access these fast-growing markets - Speech Link
2: Greg Hands (Con - Chelsea and Fulham) it illegal for larger businesses operating in the UK to use key forest risk commodities produced on land - Speech Link