Mentions:
1: Caroline Lucas (GRN - Brighton, Pavilion) this Government, who have failed to give enough support to farmers to transition to agroecological farming - Speech Link
2: Rachael Maskell (LAB - York Central) Some independent schools put farming and engagement in the natural world on their curriculum. - Speech Link
3: Richard Graham (CON - Gloucester) We are so close to the Cotswolds escarpment, Crickley hill, and all of the lands that Laurie Lee and - Speech Link
4: Margaret Greenwood (LAB - Wirral West) In Wirral West, Caldy Hill, Thurstaston Common, Irby Hill and Harrock Wood are all owned and cared for - Speech Link
5: Trudy Harrison (CON - Copeland) We have our Farming in Protected Landscapes scheme, which is increasing access to national parks and - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Damian Collins (CON - Folkestone and Hythe) The Folkestone library at Grace Hill in the town was one of the early Carnegie libraries, an important - Speech Link
2: Andrew Selous (CON - South West Bedfordshire) We also work with farming tenants across England to explore every possible planting opportunity, including - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Thérèse Coffey (CON - Suffolk Coastal) which is tackling all forms of water pollution from transport and metal mines to forever chemicals and farming - Speech Link
2: Cherilyn Mackrory (CON - Truro and Falmouth) Water is doing a lot of work around the Fal, including at the Falmouth sewage treatment works, Old Hill - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Carrington (CB - Excepted Hereditary) My Lords, I declare my interests in farming and land ownership as set out in the register. - Speech Link
2: Earl of Caithness (CON - Excepted Hereditary) Good commercial farming can work hand in hand with nature. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Pinnock (LDEM - Life peer) , such as nature-friendly farming and habitat restoration for carbon offsetting.Amendment 386 in the - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Geoffrey Cox (CON - Torridge and West Devon) cattle and ponies is regarded as a good thing, so why are the Government not considering incentivising hill - Speech Link
2: Luke Pollard (LAB - Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport) That means that what happens for farming in the south-west is a signpost to what could happen to farming - Speech Link
3: Gary Streeter (CON - South West Devon) However, from my conversations with hill farmers in recent weeks, including two yesterday, it is clear - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (LAB - Life peer) One way could be to increase access to the higher tier options, including for hill farmers. - Speech Link
2: Earl of Caithness (CON - Excepted Hereditary) There are 15 million acres of hill land, which again present a very difficult problem. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Boycott (CB - Life peer) Farming drives 70% of terrestrial biodiversity loss. - Speech Link
4: None If we want farming and food production to be resilient and sustainable over the long term, farming and - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (CON - Life peer) try to achieve a balance.I end by saying that my noble friend is only too aware of my commitment to farming - Speech Link
2: None In 2021, the Public Services Committee, chaired by the noble Baroness, Lady Armstrong of Hill Top, conducted - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Nusrat Ghani (CON - Wealden) Friend’s very good question is that, as he will be pleased to know, there is the Lord Hill listing review - Speech Link
2: Duncan Baker (CON - North Norfolk) Due to water abstraction permits, this and other farming businesses are simply not going to be able to - Speech Link
3: Kemi Badenoch (CON - Saffron Walden) This includes support for agriculture, such as grants for reservoirs through the farming transformation - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Penn (CON - Life peer) The Government have also introduced farming and rural support worth a cumulative £3.7 billion annually - Speech Link
2: Baroness Penn (CON - Life peer) continue to set out next steps on our environmental land management schemes, including the sustainable farming - Speech Link
3: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (CON - Life peer) My Lords, does my noble friend accept that, for two categories of farmers—particularly hill farmers and - Speech Link
4: Baroness Penn (CON - Life peer) As Defra develops its programmes for the sustainable farming incentive and other replacements for EU - Speech Link
5: Lord Jones (LAB - Life peer) In the lovely heartland of Wales—cefn gwlad—there is great distress among the farming communities. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Michelle Donelan (CON - Chippenham) funding for the quantum technologies that we anticipate will revolutionise everything from healthcare to farming - Speech Link
2: Shabana Mahmood (LAB - Birmingham, Ladywood) the highest rate of unemployment in the country; Birmingham, Perry Barr is second, Birmingham, Hodge Hill - Speech Link