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Written Statements
T-Levels: Wave 4 - Tue 30 Jan 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Robert Halfon (Con - Harlow) These are agriculture, land management and production; animal care and management; craft and design; - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [Lords]
2nd reading - Mon 29 Jan 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: None the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee on 21 November 2023, on UK trade policy: food and agriculture - Speech Link
2: Anthony Mangnall (Con - Totnes) When the Trade and Agriculture Commission—the statutory body that reviews the trade deals we sign—came - Speech Link
3: John McDonnell (Lab - Hayes and Harlington) with that, the risk of deforestation, which will serve to undermine indigenous and local community land - Speech Link
4: Anthony Mangnall (Con - Totnes) The answer from the Trade and Agriculture Commission is:“No. - Speech Link
5: Greg Hands (Con - Chelsea and Fulham) said that it is unlikely that the CPTPP will lead to an increase in palm oil being grown on deforested land - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Sustainable Farming Incentive: Species Management and ELMS - Thu 25 Jan 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Earl of Caithness (Con - Excepted Hereditary) nature, which is one of the reasons why our planet is under such huge stress.However, in 2020, with the Agriculture - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) What we have seen with industrial agriculture—the flattening of hedges and large fields that the way - Speech Link
3: Lord Sewell of Sanderstead (Con - Life peer) We have to think much more around different ways of doing agriculture, which is not necessarily all about - Speech Link
4: Lord Douglas-Miller (Con - Life peer) It is the current law of the land. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Hedgerows: Legal Protection - Wed 24 Jan 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Selaine Saxby (Con - North Devon) The land is a green patchwork, stitched together by hedgerows. - Speech Link
2: Sarah Dyke (LD - Somerton and Frome) farmers to preserve hedgerows, thus contributing to landscape conservation, biodiversity and sustainable agriculture - Speech Link
3: Daniel Zeichner (Lab - Cambridge) I remember the discussions that took place during the passage of the Agriculture Act 2020, when some - Speech Link
4: Rebecca Pow (Con - Taunton Deane) Our gardens in this country equate to a million hectares of land. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Groceries Supply Code of Practice - Mon 22 Jan 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Christina Rees (Ind - Neath) us first recognise the integral role that farmers play in our society: they are the stewards of our land - Speech Link
2: Alicia Kearns (Con - Rutland and Melton) We are seeing an increase of 10% to rates for the environmental land management scheme, which my farmers - Speech Link
3: Anthony Mangnall (Con - Totnes) of our involvement in the common agricultural policy and the introduction of the new environmental land - Speech Link
4: Greg Smith (Con - Buckingham) I see that in my own constituency: 335 square miles of north Buckinghamshire, where 90% of the land is - Speech Link
5: Richard Foord (LD - Tiverton and Honiton) very apparent that farmers do a whole lot more than produce food for our families: they tend to the land - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Biosecurity and Infectious Diseases - Thu 18 Jan 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Browne of Ladyton (Lab - Life peer) the risk of African swine fever entering the UK, something that would have a devastating impact on agriculture - Speech Link
2: Earl of Caithness (Con - Excepted Hereditary) We must apply the same science-based principles to the use of new genetic technologies in agriculture - Speech Link
3: Lord Carrington (XB - Excepted Hereditary) That leaves aside the fact that appropriately fertile land, and alternative uses of that land driven - Speech Link
4: Lord Douglas-Miller (Con - Life peer) particular to end hunger, to achieve food security, to improve nutrition and to promote sustainable agriculture - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
Committee of the whole House day 2 - Wed 17 Jan 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Patrick Grady (SNP - Glasgow North) society—just as so many countries around the world did for the Scots when they were cleared off the land - Speech Link
2: None saying 39% is spent on education, 21% on infrastructure, 19% on job creation, 13% on health, 5% on agriculture - Speech Link
3: Bob Seely (Con - Isle of Wight) I find that to be truly living in la-la land. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Second sitting)
Committee stage: 2nd sitting - Tue 16 Jan 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Barry Gardiner (Lab - Brent North) Professor Leunig: Let us be clear: land for housing is of higher value and agricultural land is of slightly - Speech Link
2: Barry Gardiner (Lab - Brent North) It is a really dreadful little bit of land. - Speech Link
3: Barry Gardiner (Lab - Brent North) Land prices are high in London and the south-east because we do not release enough land for housing. - Speech Link
4: Barry Gardiner (Lab - Brent North) because it was agricultural land, whereas you cannot rent out a piece of land that already has a building - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [HL]
Report stage - Tue 16 Jan 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park (Con - Life peer) The maths and facts speak for themselves—80% of terrestrial biodiversity is in land looked after, and - Speech Link
2: Lord Johnson of Lainston (Con - Life peer) The Trade and Agriculture Commission, for whose feedback I am extremely grateful, has noted that the - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Animal Welfare (Livestock Exports) Bill (Instruction) - Mon 15 Jan 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Sammy Wilson (DUP - East Antrim) In a letter from the previous Minister for Agriculture in Northern Ireland, I was informed that when - Speech Link
2: Theresa Villiers (Con - Chipping Barnet) Does the Minister agree that the ban on using the Great Britain land bridge for live exports is one of - Speech Link