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Public Bill Committees
Dogs (Protection of Livestock) (Amendment) Bill
Committee stage - Wed 24 Apr 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Geoffrey Cox (Con - Torridge and West Devon) Friend the Member for Suffolk Coastal on doing an enormous service for livestock farming and those engaged - Speech Link
2: Robbie Moore (Con - Keighley) other species that could be included, such as ostriches, should things change in future and should farming - Speech Link
3: Thérèse Coffey (Con - Suffolk Coastal) The then Farming Minister did give an explanation when the kept animals Bill was paused. - Speech Link


General Committees
Draft Veterinary Medicines (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2024 - Tue 23 Apr 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Mark Spencer (Con - Sherwood) draft regulations make it clear that antibiotics must not be used routinely or to compensate for poor farming - Speech Link


General Committees
Draft Criminal Justice Act 1988 (Offensive Weapons) (Amendment, Surrender and Compensation) Order 2024 - Tue 23 Apr 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Tom Tugendhat (Con - Tonbridge and Malling) zombie-style knife or zombie-style machete”does not include tools traditionally used in agriculture, farming - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Transport Infrastructure: Devon and Somerset - Tue 23 Apr 2024
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Ian Liddell-Grainger (Con - Bridgwater and West Somerset) We have to be much more aware that farming damages roads, but there is nothing we can do about it. - Speech Link


Written Statements
Tenant Farming - Tue 23 Apr 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Steve Barclay (Con - North East Cambridgeshire) The tenant farming sector is a central part of our plan to back British farmers and grow the rural economy - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Fur: Import and Sale - Mon 22 Apr 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Douglas-Miller (Con - Life peer) Fur farming is banned in the UK, and there are already import restrictions, which means that some skin - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
International Mother Earth Day - Mon 22 Apr 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Benyon (Con - Life peer) Where there was an actual or perceived discrepancy between lowland and upland farming, that has been - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Impact of Environmental Regulations on Development (Built Environment Committee Report) - Fri 19 Apr 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Lord Best (XB - Life peer) It failed to address the vastly more significant pollution from intensive farming practices and, as we - Speech Link
2: Lord Banner (Con - Life peer) In the middle of a nature crisis, the main causes of the nutrient pollution of river habitats—farming - Speech Link
3: Baroness Thornhill (LD - Life peer) The biggest source of pollution is farming at 70%, as we know, with 30% coming from the activities of - Speech Link
4: Lord Moylan (Con - Life peer) what they are doing to address the overwhelmingly predominant cause of the pollution in our rivers: farming - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
English Horticultural Sector (Horticultural Sector Committee Report) - Fri 19 Apr 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Redesdale (LD - Life peer) low-cost produce and with world-leading innovation in areas such as the development of the vertical farming - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Newcastle (Bshp - Bishops) As other noble Lords have indicated, the sector is not in isolation from the totality of the farming - Speech Link
3: Earl of Shrewsbury (Con - Excepted Hereditary) My Lords, I declare an interest as a non-farming retired member of the National Farmers’ Union. - Speech Link
4: Lord Douglas-Miller (Con - Life peer) , the farming investment fund and the farming innovation programme, all of which help our growers to - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Off-Road Vehicles (Registration) Bill
2nd reading - Fri 19 Apr 2024
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Anne McLaughlin (SNP - Glasgow North East) State will be in a far better position to fully consult users; I note that there are some concerns in farming - Speech Link
2: Peter Gibson (Con - Darlington) There are also significant issues for our farming and rural constituencies with the theft of these vehicles - Speech Link