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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
2: Guy Opperman (Con - Hexham) In Somerset, the A37 Whitstone Road in Shepton Mallet and the A39 Puriton Hill in Bawdrip have already - 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 Berkeley (Lab - Life peer) discharge it into a tank and pump it up-river in the new pipe to some kind of reservoir further up the hill - Speech Link
2: Lord Best (XB - Life peer) It failed to address the vastly more significant pollution from intensive farming practices and, as we - Speech Link
3: 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
4: 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
5: 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
Fair Dealing Obligations (Milk) Regulations 2024 - Mon 25 Mar 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: None However, they can also be harmful to farming businesses when used alongside other contract terms, such - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Hereford (Bshp - Bishops) They are both comprehensive and long overdue in addressing matters of serious injustice in the dairy farming - Speech Link
3: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (Con - Life peer) I grew up in the hills of the north of England, where I could see how fiercely independent hill farmers - Speech Link
4: Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville (LD - Life peer) ensure that they get a fair price for their milk, which is essential for the survival of the dairy-farming - Speech Link
5: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (Lab - Life peer) it feels the Government are taking by addressing the problems in only four sectors, and only at the farming - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership (IAC Report) - Tue 19 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Lord Kerr of Kinlochard (XB - Life peer) It wouldn’t fly on the Hill”. EU negotiators can and frequently do play the same card. - Speech Link
2: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (Con - Life peer) trade agreement that we consider.I will raise with the Minister the implications of this agreement for farming - Speech Link


General Committees
Draft Strategy and Policy Statement for Energy Policy in Great Britain - Tue 19 Mar 2024
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Thérèse Coffey (Con - Suffolk Coastal) In my constituency, this is all greenfield development and all about taking out farming land. - Speech Link


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: Liam Fox (Con - North Somerset) Member for Birmingham, Hodge Hill—“strategic stability and norms of state behaviour.”The CPTPP, in turn - Speech Link
2: Gareth Thomas (LAB - Harrow West) Friend the Member for Birmingham, Hodge Hill (Liam Byrne), and by the hon. - Speech Link
3: Lloyd Russell-Moyle (LAB - Brighton, Kemptown) If it were steel or farming, Conservative Members would be in the ear of Ministers through their trade - Speech Link
4: Kemi Badenoch (Con - Saffron Walden) Member for Birmingham, Hodge Hill (Liam Byrne), as Chair of the Business and Trade Committee, brought - Speech Link
5: Thérèse Coffey (Con - Suffolk Coastal) the red lines that he was prepared to draw for our farmers, recognising that we have some of the best farming - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 14 Mar 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Jonathan Gullis (Con - Stoke-on-Trent North) Mill Hill Primary Academy and New Ford Academy in Smallthorne have both recently received “outstanding - Speech Link
2: Simon Baynes (Con - Clwyd South) Friend make time for an additional debate on farming? - Speech Link
3: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) That is why just 3% of the farming community trusts the Welsh Government, and 87% of farmers believe - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
International Women’s Day - Fri 08 Mar 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Baroness Rock (Con - Life peer) We do not just have farmers; we have farming families. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Barran (Con - Life peer) and freedoms of LGBT Ugandans and others all around the world.The noble Baronesses, Lady Armstrong of Hill - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Hailing as I do from a farming constituency, I have a deep and intricate interest in the defence of farmers - Speech Link
2: Alistair Carmichael (LD - Orkney and Shetland) that consumers are most likely to buy on.If the Government are sincere in wanting to keep productive farming - Speech Link
3: Kevin Hollinrake (Con - Thirsk and Malton) My father was a hill farmer, and I represent a rural constituency with many farmers who are experiencing - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Farming - Mon 04 Mar 2024
Wales Office

Mentions:
1: Ben Lake (PC - Ceredigion) It notes how hill cattle and sheep farms made a profit of some £24,000 after rent and finance, but excluding - Speech Link
2: Greg Smith (Con - Buckingham) The determination of the Ministry of Justice to compulsorily purchase a farm adjacent to HMP Spring Hill - Speech Link
3: George Freeman (Con - Mid Norfolk) We need a long-term, secure policy, that has enough support and flexibility to allow marginal hill farmers - Speech Link
4: Robbie Moore (Con - Keighley) Hill and upland farmers have been mentioned, and I want to take the opportunity to highlight the offer - Speech Link