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Public Bill Committees
Agriculture Bill (Second sitting)
Committee stage: 2nd sitting - Tue 11 Feb 2020
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Robert Goodwill (CON - Scarborough and Whitby) Do we need to take particular account, for example, of grouse moors and the uplands, where we have a - Speech Link
2: Kerry McCarthy (LAB - Bristol East) , access to land and landscapes and the realities of farming, would be very welcome. - Speech Link
3: George Eustice (CON - Camborne and Redruth) community and the farming community together. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Mike Amesbury (LAB - Weaver Vale) I speak here as a patriot, and I have quite a farming community in Weaver Vale, and I and Opposition - Speech Link
2: Julian Sturdy (CON - York Outer) maintaining the quality of the 70% of our drinking water that comes from the uplands. - Speech Link
3: David Jones (CON - Clwyd West) employment are linked to and depend on farming, particularly livestock farming. - Speech Link
4: Theo Clarke (CON - Stafford) for farming and our environment. - Speech Link
5: Daniel Zeichner (LAB - Cambridge) It is a policy devised by some very clever people in Notting Hill; I think the House probably knows who - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Direct Payments to Farmers (Legislative Continuity) Bill
3rd reading - Wed 29 Jan 2020
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville (LDEM - Life peer) One area where I have concern is protection for hill farmers and those who rear rare breeds. - Speech Link
2: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (CON - Life peer) farms and upland farming. - Speech Link
3: Lord Inglewood (Non-affiliated - Excepted Hereditary) I farm in Cumbria, both in the uplands and on the lower ground, and I am now and have been for some time - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Direct Payments to Farmers (Legislative Continuity) Bill
Committee stage:Committee: 1st sitting - Tue 28 Jan 2020
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Neil Hudson (CON - Penrith and The Border) UK we have the highest standards of animal welfare and farming. - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) The UFU’s hill farming policy committee will meet this week to look at its key priorities. - Speech Link
3: Luke Pollard (LAB - Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport) for our rural communities—not only for hill farming, which I mentioned before, but for crofters, as - Speech Link
4: Tim Farron (LDEM - Westmorland and Lonsdale) What about the water management work in the uplands, protecting the towns and villages from flooding? - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Direct Payments to Farmers (Legislative Continuity) Bill
2nd reading - Tue 21 Jan 2020
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Luke Pollard (LAB - Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport) Hill farming and rare breed farming do not get a huge amount of airtime in this place, but they need - Speech Link
2: Luke Pollard (LAB - Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport) hill farming that was mentioned earlier, are protected and encouraged, and how are we recognising the - Speech Link
3: Tim Farron (LDEM - Westmorland and Lonsdale) I am privileged to chair the all-party group on hill farming and I was very pleased to hear the shadow - Speech Link
4: Caroline Johnson (CON - Sleaford and North Hykeham) The challenges in farming are certainly very different from the uplands to the lowlands and to the flat - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 09 Jan 2020
Department for Exiting the European Union

Mentions:
1: Steve Barclay (CON - North East Cambridgeshire) I am sure that, like me, he listened to “Farming Today” this morning and heard, in relation to the Oxford - Speech Link
2: Mel Stride (CON - Central Devon) subsistence yet look after some of the most beautiful uplands in our land? - Speech Link
3: Steve Barclay (CON - North East Cambridgeshire) He is absolutely right to focus on hill farmers. - Speech Link
4: Steve Barclay (CON - North East Cambridgeshire) I know from representing a farming area myself the importance of seasonal workers. - Speech Link
5: Steve Barclay (CON - North East Cambridgeshire) The specific issues of hill farmers are matters for both the negotiation and the Agriculture Bill. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Farming - Wed 08 Jan 2020
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Gardiner of Kimble (Non-affiliated - Life peer) In the tenant farming sector, we have consulted on proposals to support productivity improvements and - Speech Link
2: Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (LAB - Life peer) My Lords, the Minister will know that many hill farmers rely on farm subsidies to survive, so can he - Speech Link
3: Lord Gardiner of Kimble (Non-affiliated - Life peer) My Lords, environmental land management schemes will be available in the uplands, so that farmers can - Speech Link
4: Lord Gardiner of Kimble (Non-affiliated - Life peer) Clearly, as we all know, farming costs go up and down. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Britain's Place in the World - Tue 15 Oct 2019
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Stephen Gethins (SNP - North East Fife) It is sometimes easy to forget the sunlit uplands of days gone by when those of us in Westminster were - Speech Link
2: Alex Cunningham (LAB - Stockton North) I am told it will mean huge tariffs and the devastation of our farming industry. - Speech Link
3: Lord Walney (CB - Life peer) Friend the Member for Birmingham, Hodge Hill (Liam Byrne) as he spoke so compellingly on an issue that - Speech Link
4: Emily Thornberry (LAB - Islington South and Finsbury) Member for Gloucester (Richard Graham) on our relationships with America and China, and with the EU and - Speech Link
5: Emily Thornberry (LAB - Islington South and Finsbury) Friend the Member for Birmingham, Hodge Hill (Liam Byrne) talked with great force about the crisis between - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 6) Bill
2nd reading (Hansard): House of Lords - Thu 05 Sep 2019
Department for Exiting the European Union

Mentions:
1: Lord Hain (LAB - Life peer) They include food, tourism, schools, colleges, farming, fighting crime, tackling environmental pollution - Speech Link
2: Earl of Devon (CB - Excepted Hereditary) and trashing our farming just by arguing about this issue. - Speech Link
3: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (CON - Life peer) I know that the Uplands Alliance has had a series of meetings with at least 100 hill farmers up and down - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
No-deal Update - Tue 03 Sep 2019
Department for Exiting the European Union

Mentions:
1: Baroness Ludford (LDEM - Life peer) The marketing by Brexiters has morphed from a promise of sunlit uplands to at least a “smooth, orderly - Speech Link
2: Baroness Finlay of Llandaff (CB - Life peer) other hill farmers around the UK? - Speech Link
3: Lord Callanan (CON - Life peer) payments will be available to farmers if required because we recognise that one of the challenges that the farming - Speech Link
4: Lord Callanan (CON - Life peer) payments will continue, but we are considering what other interventions need to be made to support the farming - Speech Link