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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: None Affairs Committee on 21 November 2023, 6 February and 27 February 2024, on UK trade policy: food and agriculture - Speech Link
2: Liam Fox (Con - North Somerset) China’s subsidies over capacity, intellectual property theft and protectionist non-market policies exacerbate - Speech Link
3: Greg Hands (Con - Chelsea and Fulham) There has been a Trade and Agriculture Commission report and a section 42 report. - Speech Link
4: Kemi Badenoch (Con - Saffron Walden) I am also grateful to him for highlighting the scrutiny provided by the recent Trade and Agriculture - Speech Link
5: Thérèse Coffey (Con - Suffolk Coastal) One of the key measures in the Agriculture Act 2020 was brought in to validate people’s concerns. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Forest Risk Commodity Regulations - Tue 12 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Benyon (Con - Life peer) Around 70% of tropical deforestation for agriculture is illegal. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (Green - Life peer) My Lords, do we have to continue with biomass subsidies after 2027? - Speech Link
3: Lord Forsyth of Drumlean (Con - Life peer) What are the Government doing spending hundreds of millions of pounds in subsidies to Drax in order to - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Mon 11 Mar 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Bill Wiggin (Con - North Herefordshire) innocent asylum seekers from being put at risk by people traffickers before more lives are lost.On agriculture - Speech Link
2: George Freeman (Con - Mid Norfolk) harder in rural areas because of higher transport costs; higher heating costs; higher dependence on agriculture - Speech Link
3: Alex Sobel (LAB - Leeds North West) they just disappear into a Treasury black hole.When will the Government end the absurd practice of subsidies - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Alistair Carmichael (LD - Orkney and Shetland) As many of our environmental objectives rely on agriculture, the reduction of agriculture and the change - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Neonicotinoids and other Pesticides - Tue 05 Mar 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Sarah Dyke (LD - Somerton and Frome) should introduce a clear qualitative target for significantly reducing the overall use of pesticides in agriculture - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Our agriculture colleges are vital to the future food security of this nation, and that should also be - Speech Link
3: Luke Pollard (LAB - Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport) We have looked at the neonic deployment in agriculture and sugar beets, but I want to talk about neonics - Speech Link
4: Mark Spencer (Con - Sherwood) diseases.The Government are fully committed to the agricultural transition to repurpose the land-based subsidies - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Farming - Mon 04 Mar 2024
Wales Office

Mentions:
1: George Eustice (Con - Camborne and Redruth) was poor profitability in some farming sectors, and that in some areas there was a dependence on the subsidies - Speech Link
2: Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con - The Cotswolds) That highlights the impact of our subsidies in keeping food affordable domestically. - Speech Link
3: Steve Double (Con - St Austell and Newquay) able to sell their produce at a price that gives them a profit than be caught up in a complex world of subsidies - 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: Richard Graham (Con - Gloucester) That of course includes, under the Barnett formula, significant subsidies by the English of Scotland. - Speech Link
4: Liam Byrne (Lab - Birmingham, Hodge Hill) On pesticides, the Trade and Agriculture Commission found some basis for weaker standards; on GMOs it - Speech Link
5: Anthony Mangnall (Con - Totnes) The answer from the Trade and Agriculture Commission is:“No. - 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 Robathan (Con - Life peer) While some of this may be sensible—I am no great fan of subsidies; it would be better if there were none - Speech Link
4: 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


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

Mentions:
1: Selaine Saxby (Con - North Devon) residents have also signed a petition to make the protection of hedgerows a condition of ELMS and BPS subsidies - 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


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

Mentions:
1: David Jones (Con - Clwyd West) The large number of signatures to the e-petition indicates the huge concern in the agriculture sector - Speech Link
2: Sarah Dyke (LD - Somerton and Frome) in my constituency, farmers in Totnes have said that the Government are not listening to them over subsidies - Speech Link
3: Greg Smith (Con - Buckingham) The foundation laid by the Agriculture Act is robust, but it is not the only solution. - Speech Link