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Lords Chamber
Child Obesity - Thu 01 Feb 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe (Lab - Life peer) and drink to reduce child obesity. - Speech Link
2: Lord Evans of Rainow (Con - Life peer) in food and drink, and which ones to use. - Speech Link
3: Lord Stone of Blackheath (Non-affiliated - Life peer) Is similar research into solutions to reduce sugar in food and drink being undertaken in UK academies - Speech Link
4: Lord Evans of Rainow (Con - Life peer) The school food standards ensure that children have healthy food and drink options across the school - Speech Link
5: Lord Evans of Rainow (Con - Life peer) Food banks offer emergency food provision and people may be accessing these as a short-term measure, - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Arts - Thu 01 Feb 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Baroness Rebuck (Lab - Life peer) “Squid Game”, K-pop and the Hallyu wave have powered the growth of other local industries, from food - Speech Link
2: Lord Cashman (Lab - Life peer) and helping people to face the challenge of reading and writing and expressing oneself and the deep - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) take away that essential food to set children up for a healthy life.Finally, I step away from my main - Speech Link
4: Lord Browne of Madingley (XB - Life peer) that the arts add to the UK economy—approximately £50 billion gross, a figure similar to that of the food - Speech Link
5: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (Con - Life peer) seat thinking of the social benefits accruing to me by being there, or of the economic impact of the drink - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Hospitality Sector: Fiscal Support - Wed 31 Jan 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Alyn Smith (SNP - Stirling) I would cut VAT on food, soft drinks and alcohol to 5%. Of course, that is a big ask. - Speech Link
2: Rachael Maskell (LAB - York Central) Whether businesses were supplying food, drink or accommodation or operating as a wider part of the tourism - Speech Link
3: Tobias Ellwood (Con - Bournemouth East) What saved many businesses in the hospitality sector was reducing VAT to 5% for food, drink, accommodation - Speech Link
4: John Nicolson (SNP - Ochil and South Perthshire) Like so many colleagues, I started working in the food and hospitality industry. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Pet Abduction Bill
Committee stage - Wed 31 Jan 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: None No food or drink is permitted during sittings of the Committee, except for the water provided. - Speech Link
2: Anna Firth (Con - Southend West) Friend the Member for Sherwood and all the officials in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural - Speech Link
3: Mark Spencer (Con - Sherwood) The Under-Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, my hon. - 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 Committee on 21 November 2023, on UK trade policy: food and agriculture, HC 162.] - Speech Link
2: Robert Goodwill (Con - Scarborough and Whitby) Australian wine is now certainly cheaper on our shelves, and our biggest food or drink export is Scotch - Speech Link
3: Sarah Dyke (LD - Somerton and Frome) to proudly keep our high standards and improve our food security. - Speech Link
4: Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Lab - Slough) , labour rights, food standards and the environment. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories - Mon 29 Jan 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) Crucially, we are supporting the United Nations World Food Programme to deliver a new humanitarian land - Speech Link
2: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) We do, of course, work with other organisations: the British Red Cross, UNICEF and the World Food Programme - Speech Link
3: Jeremy Corbyn (Ind - Islington North) the world—that is, the 1 million people around Rafah who are trying to get something to eat, water to drink - Speech Link
4: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) place in the area around Rafah, where so many people are effectively kettled without either shelter or food - Speech Link
5: Richard Fuller (Con - North East Bedfordshire) remains a vital source of food and support for the Palestinian people. - 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) The provision of attractive nesting habitat, foraging areas in summer and winter, and winter food resources - Speech Link
2: Lord Robathan (Con - Life peer) One could say that a farming debate is food and drink to the Green Party—I apologise if that is a mixed - Speech Link
3: Lord Sewell of Sanderstead (Con - Life peer) production; there is education, farming in terms of restaurants and food to table. - Speech Link
4: Lord Douglas-Miller (Con - Life peer) environmental benefits and food production. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Tributes to Sir Tony Lloyd - Tue 23 Jan 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) and grandchildren, and all of his friends and family.Tony and I of course came from different political - Speech Link
2: Rebecca Long Bailey (Lab - Salford and Eccles) He said he wanted arrange a meal and a drink with me. - Speech Link
3: Marie Rimmer (Lab - St Helens South and Whiston) I always enjoyed chatting over a drink of tea in the Tea Room, and we would have many a laugh. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Fifth sitting)
Committee stage: 5th sitting - Tue 23 Jan 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: None No food or drink is permitted during sittings of the Committee, except for the water provided. - Speech Link
2: Matthew Pennycook (Lab - Greenwich and Woolwich) We believe it is a sensible and reasonable amendment, and I hope the Minister agrees and makes it clear - Speech Link
3: Lee Rowley (Con - North East Derbyshire) Members for Brent North and for Greenwich and Woolwich. - Speech Link
4: Lee Rowley (Con - North East Derbyshire) Member for Greenwich and Woolwich and by my hon. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Alicia Kearns (Con - Rutland and Melton) drink, very few can compete with Rutland and Melton. - Speech Link
2: Simon Jupp (Con - East Devon) East Devon produces some of the best food and drink in the country, and I will continue to work with - Speech Link
3: Kirsty Blackman (SNP - Aberdeen North) They produce the highest quality food and drink. - Speech Link
4: Daniel Zeichner (Lab - Cambridge) UK in general, and bad for UK food security. - Speech Link