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Westminster Hall
Sheep Farming - Wed 04 Sep 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) Sheep farming is huge in the uplands that we both share and love, and 41% of upland farmers are tenants - Speech Link
2: Joe Morris (Lab - Hexham) As we consider the future of sheep farming, and of upland farming in general across the country, I urge - Speech Link
3: David Smith (Lab - North Northumberland) The climate and topography lend themselves well to sheep farming, especially hill farming, which we have - Speech Link
4: Robin Swann (UUP - South Antrim) biodiversity while maintaining the mosaic landscape of our hills and uplands and securing social cohesion - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Valedictory Debate - Fri 24 May 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Jo Churchill (Con - Bury St Edmunds) Rural Affairs was a Brexit bonus to me, and hopefully it will serve as a lasting legacy to farming. - Speech Link
2: Alok Sharma (Con - Reading West) We kept Pincents hill green. - Speech Link
3: Robert Neill (Con - Bromley and Chislehurst) I wish both Charlie Davis in Chislehurst and Eltham and Peter Fortune in Bromley and Biggin Hill every - Speech Link
4: Stephen Hammond (Con - Wimbledon) People should, if possible, talk about hope and the sunny uplands and what they want to do for their - Speech Link
5: Steve Brine (Con - Winchester) present—Alice Hammond, Toby Colehan, Alex Pinney and Helen Hilland of the past, especially Russ Norton - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Farming - Mon 04 Mar 2024
Wales Office

Mentions:
1: Ben Lake (PC - Ceredigion) It notes how hill cattle and sheep farms made a profit of some £24,000 after rent and finance, but excluding - Speech Link
2: George Freeman (Con - Mid Norfolk) We need a long-term, secure policy, that has enough support and flexibility to allow marginal hill farmers - Speech Link
3: Robbie Moore (Con - Keighley) Hill and upland farmers have been mentioned, and I want to take the opportunity to highlight the offer - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [Lords]
2nd reading - Mon 29 Jan 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Kemi Badenoch (Con - Saffron Walden) Member for Birmingham, Hodge Hill (Liam Byrne), raised questions about China, and I promised to address - Speech Link
2: Neil Hudson (Con - Penrith and The Border) and farming and in how we regard animal health. - Speech Link
3: Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Lab - Slough) surrounding farming and China. - Speech Link
4: Greg Hands (Con - Chelsea and Fulham) Member for Birmingham, Hodge Hill (Liam Byrne) and the hon. Member for Walthamstow (Stella Creasy). - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Sustainable Farming Incentive: Species Management and ELMS - Thu 25 Jan 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Earl of Caithness (Con - Excepted Hereditary) just too simplistic and naive to blame all the failure on farming operations. - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Norwich (Bshp - Bishops) Finally, ELMS is just one side of the coin when it comes to nature and farming. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville (LD - Life peer) farming initiative, local nature recovery and landscape recovery. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Farming on Dartmoor - Tue 18 Apr 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Geoffrey Cox (CON - Torridge and West Devon) the Government not considering incentivising hill farmers to graze molinia at the correct time—between - Speech Link
2: Tim Farron (LDEM - Westmorland and Lonsdale) for all of us who care about the future of Britain’s vital uplands and moorlands. - 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


Lords Chamber
Direct Payments to Farmers (Reductions) (England) Regulations 2023 - Tue 28 Mar 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Earl of Caithness (CON - Excepted Hereditary) There are 15 million acres of hill land, which again present a very difficult problem. - Speech Link
2: Lord Benyon (CON - Life peer) The SFI has tailored options for the uplands, including the moorland standard, and this goes alongside - Speech Link
3: None If we want farming and food production to be resilient and sustainable over the long term, farming and - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Agriculture (Financial Assistance) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 - Tue 14 Mar 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (CON - Life peer) I press him on how this will impact on hill farmers, upland farmers and small farmers everywhere, in - Speech Link
2: Lord Benyon (CON - Life peer) with Julia Aglionby; her input in trying to make our schemes fit graziers who have access to areas of uplands - Speech Link
3: None We are keen for everyone to understand that we want to see the uplands continue to be farmed to produce - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Trade (Australia and New Zealand) Bill
Report stage - Tue 14 Mar 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (CON - Life peer) hill farmers, many of whom are tenanted farmers. - Speech Link
2: Lord Johnson of Lainston (CON - Life peer) farming communities. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Agricultural Transition Plan - Wed 01 Feb 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (LAB - Life peer) It is clearly important that these schemes are successful, both for our farming and rural communities - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville (LDEM - Life peer) sustainability of the British farming industry and as part of the process of feeding the nation. - Speech Link
3: Lord Benyon (CON - Life peer) necessary skills into managing their businesses.The noble Baroness, Lady Hayman, raised a concern for uplands - Speech Link
4: Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (LAB - Life peer) farming enterprises in this country. - Speech Link