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Commons Chamber
Food Security - Thu 21 Mar 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Philip Dunne (Con - Ludlow) For example, we currently import 84% of our fruit. - Speech Link
2: Robert Goodwill (Con - Scarborough and Whitby) vegetable oil is used for diesel engines. - Speech Link
3: Jo Gideon (Con - Stoke-on-Trent Central) self-sustaining in fruit and vegetables is becoming even greater. - Speech Link
4: Steven Bonnar (SNP - Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill) Many exports to the EU have fallen, including a 38% fall in fruit and vegetable exports, and a 7% fall - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Tackling Obesity - Tue 27 Feb 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: David Evennett (Con - Bexleyheath and Crayford) of healthy food, particularly fruit and vegetables, and engage in regular physical activity. - Speech Link
2: Andrew Selous (Con - South West Bedfordshire) We are doing really badly at even getting our five portions of fruit and vegetables a day. - Speech Link
3: Andrea Leadsom (Con - South Northamptonshire) and the school fruit and vegetable scheme.Secondly, we are promoting more physical activity, which helps - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 11 Jul 2023
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Steve Barclay (CON - North East Cambridgeshire) It is an important scheme. - Speech Link
2: Neil O'Brien (CON - Harborough) That is why we are spending £150 million on healthy food schemes, such as the school fruit and vegetable - Speech Link
3: William Wragg (CON - Hazel Grove) The pilot scheme is ready to go. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Ultra-processed Food - Wed 21 Jun 2023
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Suzanne Webb (CON - Stourbridge) Let us take those lovely fruit yoghurts. - Speech Link
2: Neil O'Brien (CON - Harborough) million a year on healthy food schemes, such as school fruit and veg and nursery milk, through our Healthy - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill
Committee stage - Wed 24 May 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (GRN - Life peer) Some of the things that locals recall being dumped there were fruit machines, vegetable and medical waste - Speech Link
2: Baroness Boycott (CB - Life peer) It is a vegetable garden that is primarily used for people who have mental health issues—their doctors - Speech Link
3: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (LAB - Life peer) In some cases, it would provide a way of growing much-needed fresh fruit and vegetables for the community - Speech Link
4: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (LAB - Life peer) have to be moved away from one school but may not have the provision they need in another school. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist (CON - Life peer) extended the subsidy scheme for buses to protect vital bus routes, helping with the cost of living and - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Cost of Living: Healthy Start Scheme - Tue 23 May 2023
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Neil O'Brien (CON - Harborough) The scheme offers financial support towards buying fresh, frozen or tinned fruit and vegetables, fresh - Speech Link
2: Neil O'Brien (CON - Harborough) The school fruit and vegetable scheme provides around 2.2 million children in key stage 1 with a portion - Speech Link
3: Andrew Western (LAB - Stretford and Urmston) He was also right to mention free school meals, because that is a major problem with the scheme as it - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Energy Bill [HL]
Report stage - Mon 17 Apr 2023
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Baroness Sheehan (LDEM - Life peer) The Government ought to have grasped that low-hanging fruit with both hands already, and flaring and - Speech Link
2: Lord Berkeley (LAB - Life peer) need for consumer choice in this, it is probably worth explaining what the material—hydrotreated vegetable - Speech Link
3: Baroness Young of Old Scone (LAB - Life peer) ground source pumps in some houses, though I must admit that I probably come from the school that says - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Energy Support for Farms - Tue 21 Mar 2023
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) The UK does not produce enough fruit and vegetables for its population to get the recommended five portions - Speech Link
2: Patricia Gibson (SNP - North Ayrshire and Arran) include horticulture and poultry in the energy and trade intensive industries scheme. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Poverty: Food Costs - Wed 01 Mar 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lee Anderson (CON - Ashfield) picking fruit and vegetables. - Speech Link
2: Lee Anderson (CON - Ashfield) They were struggling to cook a vegetable properly—to batch cook, to freeze stuff. - Speech Link
3: Tim Farron (LDEM - Westmorland and Lonsdale) We need to pause the phase-out of the basic payment scheme, so we can protect our farmers and stop the - Speech Link
4: Daniel Zeichner (LAB - Cambridge) The trial resulted in 85% more fruit and vegetables reaching frontline charities and community groups - Speech Link
5: Mark Spencer (CON - Sherwood) I have also asked them to look again at how they work with our farmers and how they buy fruit and vegetables - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
National Food Strategy and Food Security - Thu 27 Oct 2022
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (CON - The Cotswolds) Members have said, the price of staple foods including bread, tea, potatoes and vegetable oil has absolutely - Speech Link
2: Ben Lake (PC - Ceredigion) However, the figure stands at only 54% for fresh vegetables and 16% for fresh fruit. - Speech Link
3: Pete Wishart (SNP - Perth and North Perthshire) it is so bad that fruit and vegetable growers face inflation rates of up to 24%. - Speech Link