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Lords Chamber
Queen’s Speech - Wed 12 May 2021
Department for International Trade

Mentions:
1: Baroness Brinton (LDEM - Life peer) We see an unnecessary voter ID Bill and a puppy farming Bill, but we do not see a desperately needed - Speech Link
2: Lord Griffiths of Burry Port (LAB - Life peer) What happened to Sure Start and children and family centres and their benefits to families and the NHS - Speech Link
3: Lord Baker of Dorking (CON - Life peer) , to go in and speak to youngsters aged between 13 and 14 and 16 and 18 to tell them what they were doing - Speech Link
4: Lord Razzall (LDEM - Life peer) Where are the sunlit uplands promised in the referendum campaign? - Speech Link
5: Lord Clark of Windermere (LAB - Life peer) the National Centre for the Uplands—the only hill farm in the whole country owned by an agricultural - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Covid-19: Economic Recovery - Tue 20 Apr 2021
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Baroness Humphreys (LDEM - Life peer) problems in rural Wales, ensuring that funding schemes for our farmers provide not a penny less for farming - Speech Link
2: Lord Vaizey of Didcot (CON - Life peer) I would like to see the Government lean in on that and to implement the Hill review to ensure that great - Speech Link
3: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (CON - Life peer) How will this work in a rural landscape, particularly looking to the food and farming sectors in the - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Direct Payments to Farmers (Reductions and Simplifications) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 - Mon 22 Mar 2021
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Rooker (LAB - Life peer) It is a golden opportunity and it should not be missed.How will hill farmers be treated and protected - Speech Link
2: Lord Whitty (LAB - Life peer) over 100% of profits—were LFA hill farmers, then lowland livestock, then mixed farms and dairy farms - Speech Link
3: Lord Berkeley of Knighton (CB - Life peer) I am sitting here on a hill farm; it is very beautiful and I declare my interest as a very small-time - Speech Link
4: Lord Gardiner of Kimble (Non-affiliated - Life peer) I am not sure that fruit and vegetables would be very easy to produce on some of the uplands that we - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Budget Statement - Fri 12 Mar 2021
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Horam (CON - Life peer) We have a steep hill to climb as a result of Covid and Brexit—a double whammy—but the Chancellor has - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville (LDEM - Life peer) It will also support new entrants into farming and tenant farmers but, as ever, there is little detail - Speech Link
3: Lord Morris of Aberavon (LAB - Life peer) The joint statement of the farming organisations in Wales is very welcome. - Speech Link
4: Lord Triesman (LAB - Life peer) It is of global importance to us and the review by the noble Lord, Lord Hill, again emphasises this. - Speech Link
5: Lord Taverne (LDEM - Life peer) , to say the least, very little chance of Boris Johnson’s dream of sunny uplands. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation - Wed 03 Mar 2021
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Ian Blackford (SNP - Ross, Skye and Lochaber) Scottish businesses, from fishing to farming, are losing millions of pounds every day as a direct result - Speech Link
2: Colum Eastwood (SDLP - Foyle) That was not heard, and pretending that the sunny uplands are coming as a result of Brexit is just beginning - Speech Link
3: Chris Loder (CON - West Dorset) Member for Birmingham, Hodge Hill (Liam Byrne). - Speech Link
4: Andrew Mitchell (CON - Sutton Coldfield) Member for Birmingham, Hodge Hill (Liam Byrne). - Speech Link
5: Gareth Davies (CON - Grantham and Stamford) the brightest to help to bolster our digital transformation in sectors such as finance, farming, education - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement - Fri 08 Jan 2021
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Bassam of Brighton (LAB - Life peer) damage to businesses in exposed sectors, particularly manufacturing and farming. - Speech Link
2: Duke of Somerset (CB - Excepted Hereditary) For instance, in farming—I declare my interest as a farmer—there are some good results buried in the - Speech Link
3: Lord Hannay of Chiswick (CB - Life peer) with our erstwhile EU partners, not strolling effortlessly through the sunlit uplands. - Speech Link
4: Lord Morris of Aberavon (LAB - Life peer) Hill sheep farms are small, and imaginative plans for new environmental subsidies do little to help their - Speech Link
5: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (GRN - Life peer) is needed in the Turing scheme.More than that, given that the brilliant, international Oxford Real Farming - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
European Union (Future Relationship) Bill
3rd reading - Wed 30 Dec 2020
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Northover (LDEM - Life peer) Those who urged Britons to vote for Brexit pointed to sunlit uplands. - Speech Link
2: Lord Alderdice (LDEM - Life peer) between the north and the south, and the east and the west. - Speech Link
3: Duke of Wellington (CB - Excepted Hereditary) I worry for small hill farmers, who will find that their sheepmeat must comply with new bureaucratic - Speech Link
4: Lord Taverne (LDEM - Life peer) Well, will it really be the journey into the sunlit uplands? - Speech Link
5: Baroness Watkins of Tavistock (CB - Life peer) have many farming friends in the West Country. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
United Kingdom Internal Market Bill
Committee stage:Committee: 2nd sitting (Hansard) - Wed 28 Oct 2020
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town (LAB - Life peer) does not damage particular producers, consumers or the environment within England but could affect farming - Speech Link
2: Lord Inglewood (Non-affiliated - Excepted Hereditary) Its sustainable farming systems were described to me by one interlocutor as “nationalisation by micromanagement - Speech Link
3: Lord Callanan (CON - Life peer) is important, for example, if merely to consider locally specific factors, such as environmental or farming - Speech Link
4: Lord Stevenson of Balmacara (LAB - Life peer) the sunny uplands—that may be available in some nirvana they have yet to describe accurately, and work - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Agriculture Bill
Report stage - Tue 15 Sep 2020
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: None It is a recreation ground and playing fields on top of a hill. - Speech Link
2: Earl of Devon (CB - Excepted Hereditary) uplands are important, and the cultural and natural heritage therein is vital, but uplands can be no - Speech Link
3: Lord Grantchester (LAB - Excepted Hereditary) to the hill-farming sector in the less favoured areas by freezing their reductions below £30,000 per - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Agriculture Bill
Committee stage:Committee: 7th sitting (Hansard) - Tue 28 Jul 2020
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Bruce of Bennachie (LDEM - Life peer) facing these key livestock sectors, which are crucial to the uplands of England and pretty well the - Speech Link
2: Lord Wigley (PC - Life peer) repeated today: namely, the real dangers in the present climate for hill farmers. - Speech Link
3: Lord Inglewood (Non-affiliated - Excepted Hereditary) Lord, Lord Judd, who—it may not have been apparent to your Lordships—was speaking from just over the hill - Speech Link
4: Baroness Humphreys (LDEM - Life peer) Our upland and hill farms therefore provide grazing for hardy breeds of cattle such as Welsh Blacks and - Speech Link