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Lords Chamber
Alternative Investment Fund Designation Bill [HL]
2nd reading - Fri 01 Mar 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (Con - Life peer) very much a framework directive, but the home department, the Ministry for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food - Speech Link
2: Lord Hannan of Kingsclere (Con - Life peer) It applies to some of the more bizarre SPS and food safety things we have inherited, right the way through - Speech Link
3: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (Con - Life peer) That is why the Government are delivering on my noble friend Lord Hill’s listings review, the wholesale - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Offshore Petroleum Licensing Bill
Committee of the whole House - Tue 20 Feb 2024
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Selaine Saxby (Con - North Devon) Friend the Member for Sherwood (Mark Spencer), at the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee, - Speech Link
2: Dave Doogan (SNP - Angus) What is needed is a wholesale redistribution of fiscal receipts from Scottish oil and gas to the renewable - Speech Link
3: None capture, and have in particular been hampered by the Scottish Green party’s resistance and calls for the wholesale - Speech Link
4: Douglas Ross (Con - Moray) as the tax itself.”Perhaps most powerfully of all, last week, more than 800 individuals, firms and trade - Speech Link
5: Richard Foord (LD - Tiverton and Honiton) As a result, the Royal Navy continued to dominate the seas and hampered Germany’s international trade - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
Committee stage - Wed 14 Feb 2024
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: None to give some support to those who are or are about to be victims of a hugely profitable and odious trade - Speech Link
2: None the protections in place and we come back to whether we believe that a treaty will bring about the wholesale - Speech Link
3: Lord Anderson of Ipswich (XB - Life peer) Your Lordships may feel that they have had enough food for thought in this debate and that it is time - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Ministerial Severance: Reform - Tue 06 Feb 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Emily Thornberry (Lab - Islington South and Finsbury) I praise the current Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the right hon. - Speech Link
2: Esther McVey (Con - Tatton) For the reasons I have set out, the Government do not think there should be wholesale legislative reform - Speech Link
3: Michael Ellis (Con - Northampton North) Member know that I am not already a member of a trade union? - Speech Link
4: Alex Cunningham (Lab - Stockton North) fair.Critics of these changes might argue that what happened in 2022-23 was a one-off and does not warrant wholesale - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Hospitality Sector: Fiscal Support - Wed 31 Jan 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Alyn Smith (SNP - Stirling) I would cut VAT on food, soft drinks and alcohol to 5%. Of course, that is a big ask. - Speech Link
2: Rachael Maskell (LAB - York Central) Whether businesses were supplying food, drink or accommodation or operating as a wider part of the tourism - Speech Link
3: Tobias Ellwood (Con - Bournemouth East) high, as more and more businesses are seriously impacted and unable to handle the increased costs of food - Speech Link
4: Wera Hobhouse (LD - Bath) That should involve decoupling electricity from wholesale gas prices. - Speech Link
5: John Nicolson (SNP - Ochil and South Perthshire) Like so many colleagues, I started working in the food and hospitality industry. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 30 Jan 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Yasmin Qureshi (Lab - Bolton South East) According to the UN World Food Programme, over half a million Palestinians in Gaza are starving. - Speech Link
2: Paul Blomfield (Lab - Sheffield Central) to a viable Palestinian state by recognising it and by upgrading current Government advice against trade - Speech Link
3: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) conversations that the Foreign Secretary will have had last week with Prime Minister Netanyahu, I cannot trade - Speech Link
4: Alex Cunningham (Lab - Stockton North) Houthis must also be proportionate and accompanied by more diplomatic work across the region to stop wholesale - Speech Link
5: Bob Blackman (Con - Harrow East) Foreign Secretary will be aiming to achieve, particularly at a time when we are negotiating a free trade - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Ukraine - Fri 26 Jan 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con - Life peer) Food, medicine and basic hygiene items are scarce in the worst-hit areas. - Speech Link
2: Lord Camoys (Con - Excepted Hereditary) at the start of the war, and the early support it received from the UK and other allies, stopped the wholesale - Speech Link
3: Earl of Minto (Con - Excepted Hereditary) The new Office of Trade Sanctions Implementation will further strengthen the enforcement of our trade - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Building Societies Act 1986 (Amendment) Bill
2nd reading - Fri 19 Jan 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Julie Elliott (Lab - Sunderland Central) Clearly, there also needs to be wholesale reform of the rental market, in order to address the housing - Speech Link
2: Julie Elliott (Lab - Sunderland Central) building societies were created as terminating societies, which meant that the building society terminated trade - Speech Link
3: Julie Elliott (Lab - Sunderland Central) 1 deals with funds that can be disregarded by a building society for the purpose of calculating its wholesale - Speech Link
4: Tulip Siddiq (Lab - Hampstead and Kilburn) families have, as has been noted, been forced to use their savings in the face of rising energy prices and food - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
Committee of the whole House day 2 - Wed 17 Jan 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: None Meanwhile, out there in the real world, food bills are spiralling and mortgages are going through the - Speech Link
2: Stephen Kinnock (Lab - Aberavon) The Prime Minister’s very own Windsor framework, which sought to resolve the issues around trade and - Speech Link
3: Robert Buckland (Con - South Swindon) many people’s understanding of this scheme, it is not about the offshoring of UK processing, but the wholesale - Speech Link
4: None Even if Conservative Members do not care about the trade and co-operation agreement, let us at least - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [HL]
Report stage - Tue 16 Jan 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Lord Johnson of Lainston (Con - Life peer) All food and drink products imported into the UK will still have to meet the respective food safety and - Speech Link
2: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) reduction with trade with Europe. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville (LD - Life peer) Wholesale deforestation in order to grow palm oil is extremely short-sighted, especially as we all recognise - Speech Link
4: None I remind my noble friend that the 2022 joint annual report of the Food Standards Agency and Food Standards - Speech Link
5: None for non-EU food and feed as part of the joint annual review on food standards. - Speech Link