India: Cereals Export Ban Debate
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Lord Foulkes of Cumnock
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India: Cereals Export Ban
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Lord Grimstone of Boscobel (Con)
My Lords, food security is, of course, immensely important, and no more important than at the present time. We are fortunate in this country in that we grow most of the wheat that we consume, and I am sure that the lessons that we should all learn from the need for resilience is to boost domestic production wherever possible.
Lord Foulkes of Cumnock (Lab Co-op)
My noble friend Lord Berkeley seemed to assume that we would not be able to get the grain out of Odessa and the other ports. I hope that that is not the case. I wonder whether discussions are taking place with the Ministry of Defence to see whether a way can be found to use those ports.