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Lords Chamber
Agriculture Bill
Report stage:Report: 3rd sitting (Hansard) - Tue 22 Sep 2020
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist (CON - Life peer) Through the Wild Animals in Circuses Act 2019, we have legislated to ensure that wild animals can no - Speech Link
2: Baroness Hodgson of Abinger (CON - Life peer) because of the trade in farm animals. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Finlay of Llandaff (CB - Life peer) Science entitled Toward Pesticidovigilance. - Speech Link
4: Lord Gardiner of Kimble (Non-affiliated - Life peer) It must produce an annual report on its findings. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Agriculture Bill
Report stage - Tue 15 Sep 2020
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist (CON - Life peer) trade, in protecting our environment and in protecting the health and welfare of animals. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (CON - Life peer) unit that pioneered them. - Speech Link
3: Lord Gardiner of Kimble (Non-affiliated - Life peer) line with the Better Regulation Framework guidance. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (GRN - Life peer) found that there was a conflict between the commercial interest of the manufacturer and that of the science - Speech Link
5: None The Government, in their manifesto, guaranteed the current annual budget in every year of the new Parliament - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Agriculture Bill
Committee stage:Committee: 7th sitting (Hansard) - Tue 28 Jul 2020
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown (DUP - Life peer) Advisory reports are not legally binding, and although Ministers Eustice and Truss in the other place - Speech Link
2: Lord Holmes of Richmond (CON - Life peer) I thank all the House staff and all those in the broadcasting unit who have done such an excellent job - Speech Link
3: Lord Burnett (LDEM - Life peer) Other reports support this opinion. - Speech Link
4: Lord Taverne (LDEM - Life peer) Sense about Science in 2002. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Agriculture Bill
Committee stage:Committee: 6th sitting (Hansard) - Thu 23 Jul 2020
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: None Our own European Union Committee spelled out in its recent reports exactly the facts of the case. - Speech Link
2: Lord Gardiner of Kimble (Non-affiliated - Life peer) I also say this to my noble friend, because of my biosecurity interest: as an epidemiological unit in - Speech Link
3: Viscount Trenchard (CON - Excepted Hereditary) their business models to reflect the loss of what is, for many, the largest single component of their annual - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Agriculture Bill
Committee stage:Committee: 5th sitting (Hansard) - Tue 21 Jul 2020
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: None unit, a point I made at an earlier stage of this Bill. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (GRN - Life peer) This has to be a duty, not just a power to act.This brings me to Amendment 162 on annual reports. - Speech Link
3: Lord Curry of Kirkharle (CB - Life peer) We need annual reports. I hope that the Minister will accept this amendment. - Speech Link
4: Lord Rooker (LAB - Life peer) As I said in a previous debate—a week ago, I think—portion control science within the food industry is - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Agriculture Bill
Committee stage:Committee: 4th sitting (Hansard) - Thu 16 Jul 2020
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (GRN - Life peer) They often talk about following the science; the science is that we need action. - Speech Link
2: None The cost per unit of production in a small abattoir is significant; to lose even more will put at risk - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (GRN - Life peer) In fact, fungi are closer to animals than plants. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist (CON - Life peer) In addition, Clause 5 commits the Government to publish annual reports on the total amount spent on financial - Speech Link
5: None and guidance and have already committed to having in place a future system of agricultural regulation - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Agriculture Bill
Committee stage:Committee: 2nd sitting (Hansard) - Thu 09 Jul 2020
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Krebs (CB - Life peer) This has been highlighted in many reports, including the one published on Monday by the Food, Poverty - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (GRN - Life peer) Spending in local food outlets supports an average of one job for every £46,000 of annual turnover, while - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist (CON - Life peer) The annual financial reports required to be published by the Secretary of State under Clause 5 will include - Speech Link
4: Baroness Finlay of Llandaff (CB - Life peer) In 2013 the Government accepted all recommendations from two important reports. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Agriculture Bill
Committee stage - Tue 07 Jul 2020
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord De Mauley (CON - Excepted Hereditary) As has been found in areas such as plant science, genes from ancient species can help us tackle 21st-century - Speech Link
2: None The UK Government’s election manifesto guaranteed the current annual budget in every year of the new - Speech Link
3: Lord Lucas (CON - Excepted Hereditary) We need a system of regulation which, supported by science, supports change without destroying older - Speech Link
4: Lord Marlesford (CON - Life peer) We should do so through the concept of the rural business unit, or RBU, as originally set out in 1992 - Speech Link
5: Viscount Trenchard (CON - Excepted Hereditary) We have heard a great deal about following the science, but we know that science is based on different - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Fisheries Bill [HL]
Report stage:Report: 1st sitting - Mon 22 Jun 2020
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville (LDEM - Life peer) Unlike farm animals, which can be corralled and shepherded into barns, pens or open fields, fish are - Speech Link
2: Lord Gardiner of Kimble (Non-affiliated - Life peer) Where a TAC is set at zero, no quota will be allocated to FQA unit holders in that stock, no matter how - Speech Link
3: Lord McConnell of Glenscorrodale (LAB - Life peer) I worry that, as fisheries policy and regulation are returned to the United Kingdom, the pressure on - Speech Link
4: None When we debated this issue in Committee, the Minister referred to various reports which set out the expectations - Speech Link
5: Lord Krebs (CB - Life peer) In every one of our annual reports we called for a step change in action by the Government: on both mitigation - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Agriculture Bill
2nd reading (Hansard) - Wed 10 Jun 2020
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Taylor of Holbeach (CON - Life peer) The Minister will know that the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Science and Technology in Agriculture - Speech Link
2: Lord Whitty (LAB - Life peer) burden of regulation. - Speech Link
3: Lord Trees (CB - Life peer) Proper control of enteric worms in sheep, for example, can reduce greenhouse gases by 10% per unit of - Speech Link
4: Lord German (LDEM - Life peer) the areas of the identification and traceability of animals, agricultural tenancies and the regulation - Speech Link
5: Lord Gardiner of Kimble (Non-affiliated - Life peer) We are committed to adopting a more scientific approach to regulation in the future. - Speech Link