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Westminster Hall
Farmed Animals: Cages and Crates - Mon 16 Jun 2025
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Irene Campbell (Lab - North Ayrshire and Arran) We must urgently phase out low animal welfare imports that do not meet our own animal welfare standards - Speech Link
2: Charlie Dewhirst (Con - Bridlington and The Wolds) that we bring the farming community along with us in this conversation, whether it is about pigs, poultry - Speech Link
3: Edward Morello (LD - West Dorset) Gentleman raises the incredibly important issue of imports. - Speech Link
4: Sarah Dyke (LD - Glastonbury and Somerton) Worryingly, research shows that intensive systems have ballooned, particularly in the pig and poultry - Speech Link
5: Daniel Zeichner (Lab - Cambridge) We are acutely aware of and concerned about imports produced using methods that are not permitted in - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Non-stun Slaughter of Animals - Mon 09 Jun 2025
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Jamie Stone (LD - Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross) That process can take up to 20 seconds in sheep, 2 minutes in cattle and 2.5 minutes in poultry. - Speech Link
2: Jamie Stone (LD - Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross) in a second.Such provisions include post-cut stunning for ruminants, minimum-stun parameters for poultry - Speech Link
3: Iqbal Mohamed (Ind - Dewsbury and Batley) We have already heard about gas stunning and killing, which is primarily used for pigs and some poultry - Speech Link
4: Shockat Adam (Ind - Leicester South) Electrical stunning, often used in poultry, involves passing a high voltage current through the brain - Speech Link
5: Daniel Zeichner (Lab - Cambridge) The number of poultry and cattle that are not stunned before slaughter actually decreased between 2011 - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Animal Welfare in Farming - Tue 03 Jun 2025
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Adrian Ramsay (Green - Waveney Valley) That is why we must commit to banning imports produced to standards that would not comply with those - Speech Link
2: Sam Carling (Lab - North West Cambridgeshire) Nearly 50% of pork imports come from countries where pregnant pigs remain confined in narrow sow stalls - Speech Link
3: Sadik Al-Hassan (Lab - North Somerset) Humane slaughter rules already apply to meat imports—as we have heard—so why should welfare standards - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Groceries Code Adjudicator - Tue 03 Jun 2025
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: John Hayes (Con - South Holland and The Deepings) Lincolnshire grows 30% of the UK’s vegetables, 20% of the sugar beet, 18% of the poultry, 20% of the - Speech Link
2: Alistair Carmichael (LD - Orkney and Shetland) continue to reduce our levels of livestock in this country the resulting gap will be filled by cheaper imports - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) I have been a member of the all-party parliamentary group for eggs, pigs and poultry for most of my time - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Solar Farms - Thu 15 May 2025
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Caroline Johnson (Con - Sleaford and North Hykeham) pick-ups, inheritance tax, national insurance and much more.Displacing our farmland leaves us reliant on imports - Speech Link
2: George Freeman (Con - Mid Norfolk) In my constituency of Mid Norfolk, the home of Banham Poultry and Cranswick Country Foods, farming and - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Trade Negotiations - Wed 14 May 2025
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) increased from 1,000 to 13,000 metric tonnes, and negotiations are expected to continue on pork, poultry - Speech Link
2: Lord Fox (LD - Life peer) The Secretary of State was at pains to say that imports would not compromise our standards, so can the - Speech Link
3: Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (Lab - Life peer) I want to be crystal clear: agriculture imports to the UK will still have to meet our high-quality food - Speech Link
4: Lord Lilley (Con - Life peer) on those food imports, as we have done for three of the last four years. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
UK-EU Summit - Tue 13 May 2025
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Stella Creasy (LAB - Walthamstow) have heard our message more clearly if we were inside the room, particularly when it came to gas imports - Speech Link
2: Richard Baker (Lab - Glenrothes and Mid Fife) It accounts for 41% of our exports and 51% of our imports. - Speech Link
3: Jack Rankin (Con - Windsor) and the Roslin Institute, Edinburgh, are now close to making breakthroughs on bird flu-resistant poultry - Speech Link
4: Stephen Doughty (LAB - Cardiff South and Penarth) clear: since 2018, the UK’s agrifood trade with the EU has fallen by 20% for exports and 11% for imports - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Fair Dealing Obligations (Pigs) Regulations 2025 - Mon 12 May 2025
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (Con - Life peer) I know it is on the case as regards avian flu, but some imports have already been banned because of foot - Speech Link
2: None an update on plans for extending fair dealing regulations to other agricultural sectors, including poultry - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 08 May 2025
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Daniel Zeichner (Lab - Cambridge) Imports into Northern Ireland of live animals and susceptible meat products are prohibited from within - Speech Link
2: John Whittingdale (Con - Maldon) Does the Minister agree that avian influenza remains an existential threat to the poultry industry, and—now - Speech Link
3: Daniel Zeichner (Lab - Cambridge) That is why the Government have increased security in terms of personal imports through the short straits - Speech Link
4: Daniel Zeichner (Lab - Cambridge) That number includes 2,000 extra for poultry. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Trade Negotiations - Thu 08 May 2025
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Andrew Griffith (Con - Arundel and South Downs) How does this deal defend our beef, lamb, pork and poultry farmers, with not just words, but actions? - Speech Link
2: Douglas Alexander (LAB - Lothian East) she is seeking that there is nothing in this deal that compromises the safety standards of either poultry - Speech Link
3: David Chadwick (LD - Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe) They now hear that another Government have signed another trade deal allowing even more beef imports - Speech Link
4: Douglas Alexander (LAB - Lothian East) Imports of hormone-treated beef or chlorinated chicken will remain illegal. - Speech Link