Mentions:
1: Andrew Bowie (Con - West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine) We built the first, second, third, fourth and fifth largest offshore wind farms in the world, which are - Speech Link
2: Josh Newbury (Lab - Cannock Chase) I completely agree that we need to ensure that our farms are properly supported and that we highlight - Speech Link
3: Lizzi Collinge (Lab - Morecambe and Lunesdale) My farms are mainly dairy and livestock; flooding and extreme weather risk not only business damage, - Speech Link
4: Lizzi Collinge (Lab - Morecambe and Lunesdale) We are bringing forward game-changing legislation to tackle the climate and nature emergencies. - Speech Link
5: Roger Gale (Con - Herne Bay and Sandwich) We will not save our agriculture if we smother our fields in so-called solar farms and things such as - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of St Albans (Bshp - Bishops) This is what people are actually facing: the day-by-day reality of how they are going to make their farms - Speech Link
2: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (Con - Life peer) However, farms are businesses, and they need to make a profit and have a sustainable business model.Flood - Speech Link
3: Earl Russell (LD - Excepted Hereditary) The collective impacts are heartbreaking: the loss of family farms to bankruptcy, increased rates of - Speech Link
4: Earl of Devon (XB - Excepted Hereditary) Powderham farms a considerable amount of that watershed and all of the valley bottom is grassed. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville (LD - Life peer) Storms Babet, Ciarán and Henk left many farms underwater between October 2023 and April 2024. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Angus MacDonald (LD - Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire) In Heligoland, an archipelago in the North sea, three offshore wind farms were built in the mid-2010s - Speech Link
2: Torcuil Crichton (Lab - Na h-Eileanan an Iar) As it happens, my community has become the epicentre for community-owned wind farms in the UK. - Speech Link
3: John Cooper (Con - Dumfries and Galloway) I feel that we will see Governments happily trample local opposition to wind farms and turn a deaf ear - Speech Link
4: Seamus Logan (SNP - Aberdeenshire North and Moray East) On 2022 figures, UK investment in new wind farms was €500 million; in Scotland it was €2.6 billion. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Northern Ireland Water goes around all the farms providing a free service collecting herbicides, weed - Speech Link
2: Rachel Gilmour (LD - Tiverton and Minehead) The time has come for a new clean water authority to replace it as we up our game in protecting our precious - Speech Link
Oral Evidence Mar. 05 2025
Inquiry: NitrogenFound: We have a range of farms from purely arable through to mixed.
Found: plays a crucial role in the ongoing refinement of the SFS, allowing adjustments over time as more farms
Found: case, sheep farms may transition to mixed grazing or specialist beef farms.
Oral Evidence Nov. 27 2024
Committee: Welsh Affairs Committee (Department: Wales Office)Found: Funding allocations are something of a zero-sum game, but it is a repeated game and there are risks
Mentions:
1: Ann Davies (PC - Caerfyrddin) Thriving family farms, strong local businesses, green energy that works for our communities—these things - Speech Link
2: Llinos Medi (PC - Ynys Môn) to the economy and the importance of food security, and we should not be pursuing large-scale solar farms - Speech Link
3: Andrew Ranger (Lab - Wrexham) band, on what will be a busy day in the city, with our monthly award-winning street market and a home game - Speech Link
4: Jo Stevens (Lab - Cardiff East) I went to the game against Stockport at the end of the season and have, in my time, drunk quite a lot - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Barry Gardiner (Lab - Brent West) Our existing wind farms, many of which are in Scotland, provide a fifth of global capacity. - Speech Link
2: Pippa Heylings (LD - South Cambridgeshire) Our current installed capacity of 50 wind farms already accounts for about a quarter of global offshore - Speech Link
3: Andrew Bowie (Con - West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine) The ships engaged in drilling for rigs, for example, will be used to work on the new offshore wind farms - Speech Link