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Commons Chamber
Farming Community: Suicide - Wed 22 May 2019
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) I am aware of the suicides among the farming community and the pressures—financial pressures and family - Speech Link
2: Peter Heaton-Jones (CON - North Devon) This issue concerns us in North Devon, as a largely rural and farming community. - Speech Link
3: Chris Davies (CON - Brecon and Radnorshire) He lives within the farming community and was born into it. - Speech Link
4: Chris Davies (CON - Brecon and Radnorshire) going to spend time talking about the weather, which is always a great concern to farmers in both the uplands - Speech Link
5: Robert Goodwill (CON - Scarborough and Whitby) today, I met some hill farmers from Lancashire, and they made the point that we have also heard in the - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Upland Farming - Thu 04 Apr 2019
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Gardiner of Kimble (Non-affiliated - Life peer) They are responsible for a distinct farming and cultural heritage and the production of high-quality - Speech Link
2: Baroness Byford (CON - Life peer) Some 70 million people visit the uplands each year and that sort of payment is essential. - Speech Link
3: Lord Beith (LDEM - Life peer) massive imports from new trade deals with New Zealand, it could spell the end of hill livestock farming - Speech Link
4: Lord Wigley (PC - Life peer) My Lords, since the Minister accepts that the upland farmers are the best guardians of the uplands and - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 28 Mar 2019
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Nick Smith (LAB - Blaenau Gwent) Given that 90% of Welsh lamb exports go to the EU, will the Minister listen to Welsh hill farmers and - Speech Link
2: David Simpson (DUP - Upper Bann) Looking at farming policy, the Government announced recently that they would allow farming produce into - Speech Link
3: Michael Gove (CON - Surrey Heath) Our uplands are one of our environmental glories, and it is critical that those who live and work in - Speech Link
4: Michael Gove (CON - Surrey Heath) Friend the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food will be talking to the NFU and other farming - Speech Link


General Committees
Draft Market Measures (Marketing Standards) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 Draft Market Measures Payment Schemes (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 Draft Market Measures (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 - Mon 25 Mar 2019
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Brendan O'Hara (SNP - Argyll and Bute) the sunlit uplands has been replaced by a very different reality, in which support payments to farmers - Speech Link
2: Brendan O'Hara (SNP - Argyll and Bute) challenges in hill farming in the western highlands of Scotland. - Speech Link
3: Robert Goodwill (CON - Scarborough and Whitby) markets to protect standards and our vital farming sector.The draft Market Measures (Marketing Standards - Speech Link
4: Robert Goodwill (CON - Scarborough and Whitby) how tough it is being a hill farmer. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Modern Farming and the Environment - Tue 12 Mar 2019
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Colin Clark (CON - Gordon) farming by putting on lime and draining the land. - Speech Link
2: Colin Clark (CON - Gordon) Why anybody would go hill walking in the highlands if they thought a wolf was running around is beyond - Speech Link
3: Rebecca Pow (CON - Taunton Deane) and sustainable environment where farming is the key driver. - Speech Link
4: Deidre Brock (SNP - Edinburgh North and Leith) Grouse moors and shooting estates will benefit at the expense of hill farmers and smallholders. - Speech Link
5: Luke Pollard (LAB - Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport) our landscapes through continual management, creating a patchwork of unique environments across the uplands - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Future Free Trade Agreements - Thu 21 Feb 2019
Department for International Trade

Mentions:
1: Barry Gardiner (LAB - Brent North) working on WTO terms is as good as those Conservative Members believe it to be, what the green sunlit uplands - Speech Link
2: Catherine West (LAB - Hornsey and Wood Green) The Secretary of State’s reference to the sunny uplands of post-Brexit trade rather prompts the question - Speech Link
3: Paul Beresford (CON - Mole Valley) The land, the atmosphere and the weather resembles much of the hill country of Scotland. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 17 Jan 2019
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: David Rutley (CON - Macclesfield) Friend that we are working closely with the NFU and the farming sector in seeking to find that deal. - Speech Link
2: Tim Farron (LDEM - Westmorland and Lonsdale) Hill farmers are essential to our landscape, food production, biodiversity and water management. - Speech Link
3: George Eustice (CON - Camborne and Redruth) Organisations such as the Uplands Alliance are very excited about the potential for a new scheme based - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Brexit: Withdrawal Agreement and Political Declaration - Mon 14 Jan 2019
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (CON - Life peer) , food, farming and the hospitality industry. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Stroud (CON - Life peer) others still believe in the sunlit uplands of global trade if only we could get to the other side of - Speech Link
3: Lord Triesman (LAB - Life peer) I do not buy shares in the crash-out sunny uplands myth peddled by the hard right. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
European Union (Withdrawal) Act - Mon 14 Jan 2019
Department for International Trade

Mentions:
1: Sarah Wollaston (LDEM - Totnes) And I am afraid that it looks very far from the sunlit uplands with which we were presented at that time.We - Speech Link
2: Gordon Marsden (LAB - Blackpool South) The universities closest to my constituency—Lancaster, Central Lancashire, Edge Hill and our own excellent - Speech Link
3: Seema Malhotra (LAB - Feltham and Heston) Contrary to the “sunlit uplands” of the most eloquent speech of the hon. - Speech Link
4: Gillian Keegan (CON - Chichester) The largest employers in Chichester are Rolls-Royce Motor Cars, and farming and horticultural businesses - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Brexit: Withdrawal Agreement and Political Declaration - Wed 09 Jan 2019
Department for Exiting the European Union

Mentions:
1: Lord Callanan (CON - Life peer) McCrea and Lord Empey, and the noble and learned Lord, Lord Goldsmith, among others, and that was of - Speech Link
2: Lord Cormack (CON - Life peer) of the most interesting speeches during the recent Christmas Recess was made last week at the Oxford Farming - Speech Link
3: Lord Dobbs (CON - Life peer) There will be no cliff edge; more a hill to climb. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (CON - Life peer) I have been reading a book by the opposition MP for Birmingham Hodge Hill, Liam Byrne, about the talent - Speech Link
5: Lord Chidgey (LDEM - Life peer) would be for the UK to leave the EU to venture into the supposedly unclaimed markets across the sunlit uplands - Speech Link