To match an exact phrase, use quotation marks around the search term. eg. "Parliamentary Estate". Use "OR" or "AND" as link words to form more complex queries.


View sample alert

Keep yourself up-to-date with the latest developments by exploring our subscription options to receive notifications direct to your inbox

Lords Chamber
Windrush Compensation Scheme - Wed 06 May 2020
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Benjamin (LDEM - Life peer) at school to celebrate British history. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Wilcox of Newport (LAB - Life peer) and finally Priory Park School—now all amalgamated and changed. - Speech Link
3: Lord Berkeley (LAB - Life peer) Then, of course, there are the fruit and vegetable pickers; we now have to fly them in from Bulgaria, - Speech Link
4: Baroness Hamwee (LDEM - Life peer) I threw away my school reports when I cleared my mother’s house. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Agriculture Bill (Fifth sitting)
Committee stage: 5th sitting - Tue 25 Feb 2020
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Daniel Zeichner (LAB - Cambridge) to the Committee estimates that, if there were a gradual increase in land use for fruit and vegetable - Speech Link
2: Victoria Prentis (CON - Banbury) various programmes, including the healthy start, the school fruit and vegetable and the nursery milk - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Agriculture Bill
2nd reading - Mon 03 Feb 2020
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Bob Seely (CON - Isle of Wight) vegetable box erectors on the Island. - Speech Link
2: Kerry McCarthy (LAB - Bristol East) Friend for the brilliant work she has done with the Food Foundation and on school food. - Speech Link
3: Anthony Browne (CON - South Cambridgeshire) It is where I grew up, went to school and got married. - Speech Link
4: Theo Clarke (CON - Stafford) The seasonal workers pilot scheme needs to be running quicker, or fruit will go unpicked this season. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Queen’s Speech - Mon 21 Oct 2019
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe (LAB - Life peer) Under this scheme, those found guilty of offences, in many instances involving violence, but who manage - Speech Link
2: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (LAB - Life peer) Questions about the future of funding after March 2020 for the very successful national school breakfast - Speech Link
3: Baroness Humphreys (LDEM - Life peer) the Swansea Bay tidal lagoon scheme. - Speech Link
4: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (CON - Life peer) from EU countries whom we hope will work on our fruit and vegetable farms and deliver our health and - Speech Link
5: Baroness Butler-Sloss (CB - Life peer) Would the Government at least consider a pilot scheme? - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Agriculture (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 - Wed 16 Oct 2019
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: None : import documentation for hops; certificates of conformity for fruit and vegetables issued by other - Speech Link
2: None ; labelling of packages of fruit and vegetables; and import documentation for hops. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (LAB - Life peer) from third countries attesting that a fruit or vegetable product meets marketing standards requirements - Speech Link
4: None some of the design elements of school milk schemes. - Speech Link


General Committees
Draft Common Organisation of the Markets in Agricultural Products and Common Agricultural Policy (Miscellaneous Amendments etc.) (EU exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2019 - Tue 08 Oct 2019
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: George Eustice (CON - Camborne and Redruth) and some of the design elements of a school milk scheme. - Speech Link
2: David Drew (LAB - Stroud) Why are olives no longer part of the scheme? - Speech Link
3: George Eustice (CON - Camborne and Redruth) For example, a five-year or 10-year scheme under the agri-environment schemes would be supported for - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Employment - Thu 06 Jun 2019
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Lord Northbrook (CON - Excepted Hereditary) visa regime to retain the seasonal workforce required by the agricultural industry, especially in the fruit - Speech Link
2: Baroness Sherlock (LAB - Life peer) If you are aged 18 to 21 and you make a claim for universal credit, you are put into the scheme, given - Speech Link
3: Baroness Stedman-Scott (CON - Life peer) We believe that the Work and Health programme, Access to Work, the Disability Confident scheme and the - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Children’s Future Food Inquiry - Wed 08 May 2019
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Kerry McCarthy (LAB - Bristol East) public funds; expanding the school fruit and vegetable scheme so that all children can benefit; and supporting - Speech Link
2: David Linden (SNP - Glasgow East) I was the son of a single parent, living in a deprived community, and fruit and vegetables were seen - Speech Link
3: Philippa Whitford (SNP - Central Ayrshire) Some 46% of advertising is about rubbish food and only 2.5% about fruit and vegetables. - Speech Link


General Committees
draft Common Organisation of the Markets in Agricultural Products Framework (miscellaneous amendments, etc.) (eu exit) Regulations 2019 Draft Common organisation of the markets in agricultural products and common agricultural policy (miscellaneous amendments) (eu exit) regulations 2019 Draft Agriculture (Legislative Fuctions) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2019 - Tue 26 Mar 2019
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Robert Goodwill (CON - Scarborough and Whitby) fruit and vegetables; and make operable rules relating to the granting of export refunds for processed - Speech Link
2: David Drew (LAB - Stroud) including for school milk and the fruit and vegetable scheme, which is of course about providing good-quality - Speech Link
3: Robert Goodwill (CON - Scarborough and Whitby) Alongside participating in the school milk scheme, the Government are doing a great deal nationally to - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Brexit: Healthy and Nutritious Food - Thu 20 Dec 2018
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Gardiner of Kimble (Non-affiliated - Life peer) She referred to the healthy food scheme. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Jenkin of Kennington (CON - Life peer) crops, is wasted every year—enough to provide 250,000 people with the recommended five portions of fruit - Speech Link