1: law into United Kingdom law. The Government have made it clear that we intend, as a minimum, to retain - Speech Link
2: demonstrated just a few weeks ago. Will the Secretary of State today pledge to end the use of neonicotinoids - Speech Link
3: regulation system allows us to protect the environment and human health, and allows UK businesses to - Speech Link
4: I do not envy the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs the task of transcribing legislation - Speech Link
5: absolutely right. She was an outstanding Secretary of State in this Department, and the leadership that - Speech Link

1: Kingdom where there are no food banks. Their proliferation in both rural and urban areas in the last - Speech Link
2: Government have made a long-standing commitment to ensure that all policies are rural proofed—that is - Speech Link

1: representatives from (a) fishing communities and (b) the fish processing sector on the potential effect - Speech Link
2: the high price that is sometimes paid for putting food on our plates at home.Non-tariff barriers - Speech Link
3: huge concern for the sheep sector, so the Secretary of State’s suggestion that sheep farmers could simply - Speech Link
4: I might have said. I never said that specialist sheep farmers and crofters should diversify into beef; - Speech Link
5: The Scottish Seafood Association has joined other food and drink leaders with a recent letter to the Prime - Speech Link
6: and that is the offer that the Government have made to the European Union—in both directions—but the - Speech Link

1: heard for a long time. I understand that the policy paper relevant to the Bill was published earlier today - Speech Link
2: minutes and return at 4.15 pm.Clause 1Secretary of State’s powers to give financial assistance - Speech Link
3: delayed commencement at the discretion of the Secretary of State. The provision in clause 53 means that the - Speech Link

1: opportunity to thank the emergency services, the Environment Agency and all who helped with the recent flooding - Speech Link
2: Grammar School girl, I know the area well. The Environment Agency is progressing business cases to increase - Speech Link
3: protection of new homes being built—that is what the Environment Agency does, as a key stakeholder in all planning - Speech Link
4: very important, and we have had 130 new schemes since January, better protecting 55,000 homes. However - Speech Link
5: increasingly extreme weather events. Of course, the Environment Agency is always looking not just at what schemes - Speech Link
6: Storm Angus, and I would like to join the Secretary of State in thanking the emergency services and everybody - Speech Link

1: Administrations. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care has been very - Speech Link
2: Prime Minister was told that last night. The Secretary of State will also have seen the comments from the - Speech Link
3: Wales, and indeed across the United Kingdom, has made it clear that the best way of supporting farmers - Speech Link
4: because that would be a precondition. Can the Secretary of State therefore confirm on the record that all - Speech Link
5: Blackford) that there are preconditions. The Secretary of State, and indeed the Prime Minister, will be becoming - Speech Link
6: discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on support for farmers - Speech Link

1: agenda. I am also working closely with the new Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Speech Link
2: in the trade agreement is great to see, but may I ask the Minister to continue that with a free trade agreement - Speech Link
3: Brexit, which added no value or clarity for such food and drink exporting businesses. Would it not be - Speech Link
4: adopt new rules of origin—it is no good the Secretary of State saying that the delays are temporary or promising - Speech Link

1: on nature-based solutions, working with the Environment Agency. In that way, we aim to slow the flow - Speech Link
2: the level of air pollution from motor vehicles since covid-19 lockdown restrictions were eased in August - Speech Link
3: to deliver clean air zones, and through the Environment Bill we will take greater action on tackling - Speech Link
4: ensure that orders to implement the system are introduced to the House when available, so that air quality - Speech Link
5: roadside nitrogen dioxide concentrations. The Environment Bill makes a clear commitment to set a legally - Speech Link
6: does the Minister agree that the Government’s Environment Bill must have air quality targets that follow - Speech Link
7: a dramatic improvement in London’s air quality since 2016 due in no small part to the ambitious measures - Speech Link
8: want to highlight that, through our landmark Environment Bill, we will be delivering on parts of our clean - Speech Link

1: containing provision that extends to Scotland may be made only with the consent of the Scottish Ministers - Speech Link
2: Ministers or the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs in Northern Ireland and exercised by - Speech Link
3: Ministers or the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs in Northern Ireland and exercised by - Speech Link
4: matter, this amendment would ensure that the Secretary of State may only make regulations to secure compliance - Speech Link

1: the made affirmative resolution procedure.Amendment 9, page 12, line 13, leave out “3(1)(b), 3(b) - Speech Link
2: policy, there will be an emphasis on growing more food at home for import substitution, so that these general - Speech Link
3: their produce. That Bill also recognises that our food security is vital, and commits the Government to - Speech Link
4: comes through basic payments. Of course, this 12-month stay of execution will be welcomed by many of my - Speech Link
5: important to recognise that a significant proportion of sheep farmers in particular do not receive the - Speech Link
6: farmers properly for their work to improve the environment, create new habitats and so on, and that makes - Speech Link
7: we do not have some form of equivalence clause on food imports to ensure standards of animal welfare and - Speech Link