Mentions:
1: Catherine Fookes (Lab - Monmouthshire) That protection would really help the profitability of farms. - Speech Link
2: Julia Buckley (Lab - Shrewsbury) Indeed, they say, “The only game in town is to go big or go bust.” - Speech Link
3: Vikki Slade (LD - Mid Dorset and North Poole) in making their farms work better. - Speech Link
4: Helen Morgan (LD - North Shropshire) The idea that farms can survive it is not true. - Speech Link
5: Helen Morgan (LD - North Shropshire) They are not commercially viable farms. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of Hereford (Bshp - Bishops) , and from large arable enterprises to small livestock hill farms. - Speech Link
2: Lord Bilimoria (XB - Life peer) The NFU thinks that this threatens family farms and food security, estimating that 70,000 farms could - Speech Link
3: Lord Teverson (LD - Life peer) Farms that have been on countryside schemes that are coming to an end this year—I think some 35,000 farms - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) It is the smaller family farms—the farmers who own their own farms and the tenants—who have struggled.It - Speech Link
2: Maya Ellis (Lab - Ribble Valley) There are 820 farms on my patch, including 121 dairy farms. - Speech Link
3: Rachel Gilmour (LD - Tiverton and Minehead) It will devastate family farms. - Speech Link
4: Andrew Murrison (Con - South West Wiltshire) Hands off our family farms! - Speech Link
5: Andy MacNae (Lab - Rossendale and Darwen) I genuinely believe that well-advised true family farms can, with a plan to pass those farms between - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Peter Fox (Welsh Conservative Party - None) This allows the historical nature of family farms to continue in perpetuity, enabling future generations - Speech Link
2: Natasha Asghar (Welsh Conservative Party - None) We have seen Welsh family farms put at risk, as my colleague Peter Fox mentioned, with a drastic and - Speech Link
3: James Evans (Welsh Conservative Party - None) Family farms are there to protect our food security. No-one can forget that. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Gougeon, Mairi (SNP - Angus North and Mearns) Many farms are also employers. - Speech Link
2: Halcro Johnston, Jamie (Con - Highlands and Islands) seeing some family farms being split up or sold off entirely. - Speech Link
3: Burgess, Ariane (Green - Highlands and Islands) I want to continue talking about the clarity that we need and the situation that family farms and farms - Speech Link
Nov. 12 2024
Source Page: PM remarks at COP29: 12 November 2024Found: To build the infrastructure – the wind farms, solar farms, the grid infrastructure… To power and connect
Mentions:
1: None So, that allows us to apply that consistently across all farms in Wales within the scheme. - Speech Link
2: Jenny Rathbone (Welsh Labour - None) Presumably, it takes account of topographical issues like windy hillside farms on the west coast. - Speech Link
3: Huw Irranca-Davies (Welsh Labour and Co-operative Party - None) Those universal actions should be commonplace on most farms. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Harriet Cross (Con - Gordon and Buchan) APR and BPR are lifelines for hard-working family farms and entrepreneurs, who form the backbone of our - Speech Link
2: Joe Morris (Lab - Hexham) farms into the local economy. - Speech Link
Written Evidence Feb. 13 2025
Inquiry: Flood resilience in EnglandFound: FRE0108 Written evidence submitted by Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust The GWCT1 welcomes the opportunity
Mentions:
1: Hamilton, Rachael (Con - Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire) Does Colin Smyth agree that Rachel Reeves’s attack on family farms with the family farm tax will lead - Speech Link
2: Burgess, Ariane (Green - Highlands and Islands) The first source was volunteers with World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms—WWOOF—and Workaway. - Speech Link
3: Burgess, Ariane (Green - Highlands and Islands) Thank you.Jo Hunt went on to tell me that, at the same time, large farms have reduced their seasonal - Speech Link
4: Carson, Finlay (Con - Galloway and West Dumfries) It is a game that members on the SNP benches will have to be content with playing. - Speech Link