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Commons Chamber
Climate and Nature Bill
2nd reading (continuation of debate) - Fri 24 Jan 2025
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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


Lords Chamber
Flood Prevention: Farmers - Thu 10 Oct 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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


Westminster Hall
Renewable Energy Projects: Community Benefits - Tue 15 Oct 2024
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

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


Commons Chamber
Veterinary Products in Waterways - Tue 25 Mar 2025
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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


Select Committee
Soil Association, CCC Agronomy, and ADAS

Oral Evidence Mar. 05 2025

Inquiry: Nitrogen
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Environment and Climate Change Committee

Found: We have a range of farms from purely arable through to mixed.


Welsh Parliament Committee
Soil Association (Consultation response)

PDF

Inquiry: Welsh Government’s proposals for a Sustainable Farming Scheme (SFS
Inquiry Status: Closed

Found: plays a crucial role in the ongoing refinement of the SFS, allowing adjustments over time as more farms


Welsh Parliament Committee
Explanatory Memorandum, revised after Stage 2

PDF

Inquiry: Report on the Agriculture (Wales) Bill
Inquiry Status: Closed

Found: case, sheep farms may transition to mixed grazing or specialist beef farms.


Select Committee
Bevan Foundation, Wales Governance Centre, Cardiff University, and Institute for Fiscal Studies

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


Commons Chamber
St David’s Day and Welsh Affairs - Thu 27 Feb 2025
Wales Office

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


Westminster Hall
North Sea Oil and Gas Workers: Transitional Support - Wed 23 Apr 2025
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

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