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Westminster Hall
Sheep Farming - Wed 04 Sep 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Doing farm to fork means that the shops get all the revenue from the breeding of the lambs, their sale - Speech Link
2: Torcuil Crichton (Lab - Na h-Eileanan an Iar) The sheep will end up with finishers across the UK, and represent the culmination of a year’s work for - Speech Link
3: Robbie Moore (Con - Keighley and Ilkley) It can only be right that, after doing the hard work of raising and caring for their animals, sheep farmers - Speech Link
4: Daniel Zeichner (Lab - Cambridge) The Government recognise the continuing importance of the EU as one of the sector’s biggest export destinations - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Thu 18 Jul 2024
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Lord Lilley (Con - Life peer) In 1974, the quadrupling of oil prices killed growth—the end of Les Trente Glorieuses, as the French - Speech Link
2: Lord Fuller (Con - Life peer) I clearly remember visiting the farm of the noble Lord, Lord Benyon, as part of our studies. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Hodgson of Abinger (Con - Life peer) At the other end of the scale, much of the residential property in central London is owned by wealthy - Speech Link
4: Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville (LD - Life peer) While on the subject of animals, I refer to the possible ban on the import of fur and fur products; 77% - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Agriculture - Mon 13 May 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Mark Spencer (Con - Sherwood) health and welfare of our farm animals. - Speech Link
2: Bill Wiggin (Con - North Herefordshire) organisations are now getting more of that cake or pie.At the end of the day, we need to look at the - Speech Link
3: Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) For a variety of reasons—including the fact that 50% of farmers’ basic payment will be taken by the end - Speech Link
4: Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) of flux botched by this Government, they might be the one to lose the family farm. - Speech Link
5: George Eustice (Con - Camborne and Redruth) The Farming Minister and the Secretary of State will know that DEFRA already does that, and the farm - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Animal Welfare (Livestock Exports) Bill
Report stage - Wed 08 May 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Douglas-Miller (Con - Life peer) bring an end to the unnecessary live export trade for slaughter and fattening. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville (LD - Life peer) The NFU, which represents the farming community, is concerned that the import of both live animals and - Speech Link
3: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (Con - Life peer) In 2020, the UK exported a total of 751 million live animals. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) stress”.There is also the subject of the biosecurity risks of moving live animals in such a manner, - Speech Link
5: Lord Douglas-Miller (Con - Life peer) live animals for slaughter will instead sell their live animals domestically and export the carcass - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Food Security - Thu 21 Mar 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Robert Goodwill (Con - Scarborough and Whitby) In today’s money, that is double the price that wheat hit after the invasion of Ukraine, although the - Speech Link
2: Philip Dunne (Con - Ludlow) Consequently, the animals had to be shot on farm, including calves and pregnant cows on the brink of - Speech Link
3: Neil Hudson (Con - Penrith and The Border) live export of animals for fattening and slaughter, and their £4 million fund for small abattoirs. - Speech Link
4: Robbie Moore (Con - Keighley) We will publish the first draft of the food security index during the second UK Farm to Fork summit in - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Animal Welfare (Import of Dogs, Cats and Ferrets) Bill
2nd reading - Fri 15 Mar 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Ashley Dalton (Lab - West Lancashire) guise of the animals being their pets. - Speech Link
2: Peter Gibson (Con - Darlington) The banning of live exports is one of the real benefits of our leaving the European Union. - Speech Link
3: Flick Drummond (Con - Meon Valley) The Bill provides a clear pathway to end the suffering of these innocent animals. - Speech Link
4: Steve Reed (LAB - Croydon North) dropping the Animal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill after two years of development, and he urged the Government - Speech Link
5: Steve Reed (LAB - Croydon North) unscrupulous practice of puppy and kitten smuggling and through the export of live animals for fattening - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Animal Welfare (Livestock Exports) Bill
Committee stage - Thu 14 Mar 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville (LD - Life peer) Although I fully support the Bill’s aims, we cannot get away from the fact that the export of live animals - Speech Link
2: Baroness Fookes (Con - Life peer) We are dealing in the Bill only with the export of animals for slaughter or further fattening, and this - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville (LD - Life peer) My Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Hayman of Ullock, has raised the issue of the welfare of animals for - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 14 Mar 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Anthony Mangnall (Con - Totnes) Fishermen are the farmers of the sea. - Speech Link
2: Mark Spencer (Con - Sherwood) the production of food, and incentivises farmers to look after pollinators, which is good for the pollination - Speech Link
3: Patrick Grady (SNP - Glasgow North) The London School of Economics found that Brexit has added £250 to the average household bill. - Speech Link
4: Robert Neill (Con - Bromley and Chislehurst) For example, the test of plausibility in the jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice is essentially - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Farming - Mon 04 Mar 2024
Wales Office

Mentions:
1: Steven Bonnar (SNP - Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill) is the crippling effect of Brexit on the ability of our farmers to staff their farms. - Speech Link
2: George Eustice (Con - Camborne and Redruth) At the other end of the scale, around 20% of farm land in England produces just 3% or 4% of our total - Speech Link
3: Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) we have the best farmers is because of the model of the family farmthe culture that underpins the way - Speech Link
4: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) He looks after the farm and maintains it well. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Animal Welfare (Livestock Exports) Bill
2nd reading - Wed 21 Feb 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Trees (XB - Life peer) kept animals Bill, and it bans the export of live animals for fattening and slaughter from GB to anywhere - Speech Link
2: Baroness Fookes (Con - Life peer) the Minister for a permanent ban on the export of live animals. - Speech Link
3: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (Con - Life peer) The Bill therefore seems to address a problem that does not exist—the live export of animals for fattening - Speech Link
4: Lord de Clifford (XB - Excepted Hereditary) The export of farm animals was a minor but significant part of the fresh and frozen meat sector, and - Speech Link
5: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (Lab - Life peer) The final export of live farm animals overseas occurred with five lorries laden with sheep leaving Dover - Speech Link