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Commons Chamber
Horticultural Peat: Prohibition of Sale
1st reading - Tue 16 Apr 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Theresa Villiers (Con - Chipping Barnet) for compost and other growing media for gardening and horticulture.Extraction degrades the state of - Speech Link
2: Christopher Chope (Con - Christchurch) extremely dirty, but why are we concentrating on just one particular niche industry in our country—horticultureand - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 01 Feb 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Rebecca Pow (Con - Taunton Deane) This Government are absolutely clear about the need to end the use of peat products in horticulture in - Speech Link
2: Rebecca Pow (Con - Taunton Deane) This Government are committed to ending the use of peat in horticulture in England, and we will legislate - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) They absorb water and moisture and improve the habitat. - Speech Link
4: Mark Spencer (Con - Sherwood) We are inviting it to the new horticulture working group announced in yesterday’s Command Paper, along - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Trudy Harrison (Con - Copeland) the role that gardening can play to increase hedgerows. - Speech Link
2: Trudy Harrison (Con - Copeland) mental benefits of horticulture. - Speech Link
3: Rebecca Pow (Con - Taunton Deane) That gives me a great opportunity to talk about gardening; I used to be a gardening presenter and journalist - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Earl of Cork and Orrery (XB - Excepted Hereditary) and movement, such as forestry and horticulture. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Walmsley (LD - Life peer) The committee agreed with that and called on the Government to improve recruitment of people into horticulture - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Employment: Disabled People - Mon 06 Mar 2023
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Viscount Younger of Leckie (CON - Excepted Hereditary) support and manage health and disability in the workplace. - Speech Link
2: Viscount Younger of Leckie (CON - Excepted Hereditary) health and disability. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Fookes (CON - Life peer) My Lords, several gardening charities do wonderful work with people with disabilities, whether mental - Speech Link
4: Viscount Younger of Leckie (CON - Excepted Hereditary) the gardening sector. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Horticultural Sector - Thu 13 Oct 2022
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Baroness Fookes (CON - Life peer) My Lords, I declare my interest as co-chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Gardening and - Speech Link
2: Lord Carrington (CB - Excepted Hereditary) My Lords, I declare my farming interest as set out in the register and my membership of the Gardening - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II - Fri 09 Sep 2022
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Walmsley (LDEM - Life peer) She was at the heart of her family and the nation, and supported us all in good times and in bad. - Speech Link
2: None She smiled at young and old, rich and poor—especially poor. - Speech Link
3: Lord Taylor of Holbeach (CON - Life peer) Although gardening does not compete with horses or dogs, it comes a very close second, and you have only - Speech Link
4: None It served as a common theme, so we talked about politics, of course, but we also talked about horticulture - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Tree Health in England - Thu 09 Jun 2022
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Baroness Young of Old Scone (LAB - Life peer) Will he support—as he is already doing—and promote even more firmly the UK and Ireland Sourced and Grown - Speech Link
2: Baroness Fookes (CON - Life peer) My Lords, I must first declare my interest as co-chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Gardening and - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Mavisbank House - Tue 07 Dec 2021
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Steve McCabe (LAB - Birmingham, Selly Oak) Please give one another and members of staff space when seated, and when entering and leaving the room - Speech Link
2: Owen Thompson (SNP - Midlothian) of distinctly Scottish arts and culture and a renaissance of the Scots language. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Sustainability and Climate Change (National Curriculum) - Wed 27 Oct 2021
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Nadia Whittome (LAB - Nottingham East) It is confined to small parts of science GCSE, or optional subjects such as horticulture and environmental - Speech Link
2: Jeremy Corbyn (IND - Islington North) they do to ensure that there are gardening projects in every school, however small the space, and that - Speech Link
3: Tulip Siddiq (LAB - Hampstead and Kilburn) Member for Islington North (Jeremy Corbyn) talked about local gardening projects in schools in his constituency - Speech Link