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Lords Chamber
Pig Farming - Thu 16 Jun 2022
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (CON - Life peer) like to see the licences to China replaced, but they are very concerned that more than 100 US meat and poultry - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (GRN - Life peer) The Soil Association has produced an outline route map for a just transition for the poultry sector. - Speech Link
3: Lord Carrington (CB - Excepted Hereditary) going out of business.It is worth mentioning the dreadful situation at the recent British Pig & Poultry - Speech Link
4: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (LAB - Life peer) Everything must also be done to stop illegal meat imports. - Speech Link
5: Lord Benyon (CON - Life peer) of whom will see their gross margins double because of the current wheat price, whereas the pig and poultry - Speech Link


Written Statements
Government Food Strategy - Mon 13 Jun 2022
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: George Eustice (CON - Camborne and Redruth) healthier and home-grown diets for all.Trade that provides export opportunities and consumer choice through imports - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Government Food Strategy - Mon 13 Jun 2022
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Benyon (CON - Life peer) will bring forward another 10,000 visas for the seasonal workers route and expand the scheme to cover poultry - Speech Link
2: Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (LAB - Life peer) Where are the plans to support our farmers and stop them being undercut by imports with lower animal - Speech Link
3: Lord Benyon (CON - Life peer) we are keeping to our pledge that we will maintain animal welfare and environmental standards on the imports - Speech Link
4: Lord Grantchester (LAB - Excepted Hereditary) opportunities in food and trade deals, where deals are not to be focused merely on opening up the UK to imports - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Agriculture Sector: Recruitment Support - Wed 25 May 2022
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Tim Farron (LDEM - Westmorland and Lonsdale) run the risk of not being able to feed ourselves as a country, which will make us more dependent on imports - Speech Link
2: Deidre Brock (SNP - Edinburgh North and Leith) For example, Scottish Land and Estates wrote that the schemes for the poultry sector and HGV drivers“ - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Ukraine War: UK Food Security - Tue 26 Apr 2022
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Benyon (CON - Life peer) We are 100% self-sufficient in poultry, eggs, carrots, swedes, soft fruit, liquid milk and lamb, and - Speech Link
2: Lord Hannan of Kingsclere (CON - Life peer) Kingdom has made the welcome announcement that we are abolishing all tariffs and quotas on Ukrainian imports - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (GRN - Life peer) Given the now extremely high fixed cost of artificial fertilisers and pesticides—these imports also have - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 21 Apr 2022
Department for International Trade

Mentions:
1: Ranil Jayawardena (CON - North East Hampshire) From securing British access to Japan’s poultry market, estimated by industry to be worth up to £13 million - Speech Link
2: Anne-Marie Trevelyan (CON - Berwick-upon-Tweed) By the end of 2022, the UK will end all dependency on Russian coal and oil, and end imports of gas as - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Food Security - Thu 31 Mar 2022
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Deidre Brock (SNP - Edinburgh North and Leith) Environment, Food and Rural Affairs recently acknowledged that the price of wheat, which the pig and poultry - Speech Link
2: Alistair Carmichael (LDEM - Orkney and Shetland) That means that there is a gap in the market, which then stands to be filled by those cheaper imports - Speech Link
3: Neil Parish (CON - Tiverton and Honiton) Agriculture relies on specific imports to produce food, including fuel, fertiliser and feed. - Speech Link
4: Victoria Prentis (CON - Banbury) I agree that pulses, pigs, horticulture and poultry have all done badly out of subsidy regimes in the - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Game Birds (Cage Breeding) Bill [HL]
2nd reading - Fri 25 Mar 2022
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Randall of Uxbridge (CON - Life peer) visit next week to see one in operation, avian flu allowing—I think avian flu has hit a lot of the imports - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (GRN - Life peer) What are the standards being imposed on those imports? - Speech Link
3: Lord Benyon (CON - Life peer) relate to stockmanship, the use of various management devices and procedures and transport.Unlike other poultry - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Cost of Living Increases - Wed 16 Mar 2022
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Neil Parish (CON - Tiverton and Honiton) To poultry and pig farmers, feed is an enormous cost, so those price rises will add to the cost of living - Speech Link
2: Suzanne Webb (CON - Stourbridge) must do more, which is why I am pleased that the Government have announced a plan to phase out British imports - Speech Link
3: Deidre Brock (SNP - Edinburgh North and Leith) We remain vulnerable if we are too reliant on imports, and it is people on the lowest incomes who will - Speech Link
4: Greg Hands (CON - Chelsea and Fulham) “We see no economic case for…nuclear power stations.”Secondly, he rightly spoke against hydrocarbon imports - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 10 Mar 2022
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Neil Parish (CON - Tiverton and Honiton) he have with the retailers to ensure that we can share some of the pain of the costs, which pig and poultry - Speech Link
2: George Eustice (CON - Camborne and Redruth) However, we are looking at the cost of inputs, particularly for the livestock sector, such as poultry - Speech Link
3: George Eustice (CON - Camborne and Redruth) While the UK is largely self-sufficient in wheat and imports some, predominantly from Canada, we do import - Speech Link