Climate Change: Food Supply Resilience

Debate between Baroness McIntosh of Pickering and Lord Deben

Thursday 17th September 2026 Lords Chamber

[Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (Con)]

My Lords, the Minister will be aware that the NFU says that there is an urgent need—

[Lord Deben (Con)]

My Lords—

[Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms and Chief Whip (Lord Kennedy of Southwark) (Lab Co-op)]

My Lords, it is the turn of the Conservative Benches. Can they please make up their minds and get a question asked?

Infrastructure Planning (Onshore Wind and Solar Generation) Order 2025

Debate between Baroness McIntosh of Pickering and Lord Deben

Tuesday 6th May 2025 Grand Committee

[Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (Con)]

I think I am right in saying that the seat that my noble friend represented is now represented by a different party from ours. We need the electricity in the north—I cannot speak for Suffolk—and it would be much better to keep that source of energy close to where it is produced, rather than having pylons criss-crossing and destroying the countryside.

[Lord Deben (Con)]

I am quite sure that nobody takes electricity more distantly than they need to if it is going to be used locally. In my constituency—which was indeed one of the seats lost at the last election—the issue is not a question of pylons. The issues were very different and not really to do with this at all. I come back to the point that it is not sensible constantly to refer to things that are not connected with this. I repeat that there is no connection between the outages in Portugal and Spain and the issue before us.

Veterinary Medicines and Animals and Animal Products (Examination of Residues and Maximum Residue Limits) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019

Debate between Baroness McIntosh of Pickering and Lord Deben

Wednesday 27th February 2019 Grand Committee

[Baroness McIntosh of Pickering]

They are all 2019.

[Lord Deben (Con)]

Just to make it easy.