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Lords Chamber
Agriculture Bill
Committee stage:Committee: 5th sitting (Hansard) - Tue 21 Jul 2020
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Duke of Wellington (CB - Excepted Hereditary) percentage of the reductions in the basic payments for small farmers in the uplands. - Speech Link
2: Lord Greaves (LDEM - Life peer) for the landscape but to carry out their basic job of hill farming and make at least some profit from - Speech Link
3: Lord Clark of Windermere (LAB - Life peer) and hill farming, but one cannot look at hill farming without looking at the low-level farming that - Speech Link
4: Lord Judd (LAB - Life peer) Farming, and hill farming in this instance, is increasingly done by elderly people who find it more and - Speech Link
5: None We talked in Committee last week, and earlier today, about the needs of hill farming in general. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Agriculture Bill
Committee stage:Committee: 4th sitting (Hansard) - Thu 16 Jul 2020
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Baroness Mallalieu (LAB - Life peer) one-word amendment is important for livestock farmers, of which I am one, particularly farmers in the uplands - Speech Link
2: Lord Berkeley (LAB - Life peer) That would be really beneficial to the local economy at this time, when many hill farmers and remote - Speech Link
3: None Many of these livestock producers farm in the most fragile areas of Britain, such as the pasturelands, uplands - Speech Link
4: Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick (LAB - Life peer) For many communities, irrespective of farm type, whether in the lowlands or uplands, farming is the base - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Agriculture Bill
Committee stage:Committee: 2nd sitting (Hansard) - Thu 09 Jul 2020
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Baroness Young of Old Scone (LAB - Life peer) shuffled off into the uplands. - Speech Link
2: None and keeping the uplands going. - Speech Link
3: None broken their leg on the hill. - Speech Link
4: Lord Greaves (LDEM - Life peer) , beyond there, rising up to the moorland massif of Boulsworth Hill. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Agriculture Bill
Committee stage - Tue 07 Jul 2020
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Bruce of Bennachie (LDEM - Life peer) As the noble Baroness made clear, our uplands—our hill lands—are most useful for livestock rearing, grazing - Speech Link
2: Lord Morris of Aberavon (LAB - Life peer) hill farming industry went out of existence. - Speech Link
3: Lord Bruce of Bennachie (LDEM - Life peer) I am sure he appreciates that the hill farming sector is extremely vulnerable, fragile and anxious to - Speech Link
4: Lord Gardiner of Kimble (Non-affiliated - Life peer) In this case, there are clearly tests and trials with hill farmers in the uplands so that we can ensure - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Agriculture Bill
2nd reading (Hansard) - Wed 10 Jun 2020
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Earl of Shrewsbury (CON - Excepted Hereditary) farms, those who farm in less-favoured areas, and hill farms. - Speech Link
2: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (CON - Life peer) What, also, is the future for hill farming? - Speech Link
3: Baroness Mallalieu (LAB - Life peer) break-even for many small and medium-sized family farms, particularly in the uplands where there is very - Speech Link
4: Lord Berkeley (LAB - Life peer) hill farmers, particularly those who have sheep. - Speech Link
5: Lord Gardiner of Kimble (Non-affiliated - Life peer) A number of noble Lords raised upland and hill farmers and also lowland farmers. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Future of Farming: Somerset - Wed 18 Mar 2020
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Ian Liddell-Grainger (CON - Bridgwater and West Somerset) All that will change, particularly for farmers who will continue to farm on the uplands of Exmoor.It - Speech Link
2: James Morris (CON - Halesowen and Rowley Regis) Sustainable farming and food production can and, indeed, must go hand in hand. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Agriculture Bill (Twelfth sitting)
Committee stage: 12th sitting - Thu 05 Mar 2020
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: None future management to provide opportunities to extend access to farming, education, and innovation. - Speech Link
2: None future management to provide opportunities to extend access to farming, education, and innovation. - Speech Link
3: Kerry McCarthy (LAB - Bristol East) increasing public access to the natural environment and farming. - Speech Link
4: Ruth Jones (LAB - Newport West) The new clauses call on the Government to think about biodiversity, the uplands, the fragile and insecure - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Flooding - Wed 04 Mar 2020
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Luke Pollard (LAB - Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport) We need long-term structural change if we are to combat future floods, including restoring nature in uplands - Speech Link
2: Chris Bryant (LAB - Rhondda) Penrhys.In Pentre, a culvert overflowed from the top of the hill, and slurry came down full of coal - Speech Link
3: Mark Garnier (CON - Wyre Forest) Friend is right, and in raising the issue of farming, she brings me on to my next point. - Speech Link
4: Rebecca Pow (CON - Taunton Deane) The Secretary of State and the Minister responsible for farming are looking at the three-crop rule.On - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Agriculture Bill (Fourth sitting)
Committee stage: 4th sitting - Thu 13 Feb 2020
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Daniel Zeichner (LAB - Cambridge) It gets to the point at which, for instance, sheep farming in the uplands, according to my estimates, - Speech Link
2: Robert Goodwill (CON - Scarborough and Whitby) One thing to say is that in the uplands there is almost no mixed farming. - Speech Link
3: Sarah Dines (CON - Derbyshire Dales) Let us face it: there would not be any hill farming in this country without public money. - Speech Link
4: Nadia Whittome (LAB - Nottingham East) uplands, is far greater than the ecological difference between, say, BPS sheep farming and HLS sheep - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Support for Hill Farmers - Wed 12 Feb 2020
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Tim Farron (LDEM - Westmorland and Lonsdale) Hill farming is therefore often a marginal occupation. - Speech Link
2: George Eustice (CON - Camborne and Redruth) He is a champion for hill farming areas, and hill farming is particularly important in his constituency - Speech Link