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Lords Chamber
Heather and Grass etc. Burning (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 - Thu 30 Oct 2025
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Earl of Caithness (Con - Excepted Hereditary) In this country, we tend to burn heather and grass in a prescribed manner and, if done correctly and - Speech Link
2: Earl of Leicester (Con - Excepted Hereditary) farming, so although we do not have a current need to burn heather and grass in Norfolk, we are aware - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Spending Review 2025: Scotland - Wed 02 Jul 2025
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Stephen Gethins (SNP - Arbroath and Broughty Ferry) to come to Dundee and visit the institution, just to see and learn. - Speech Link
2: Gregor Poynton (Lab - Livingston) I am on the record saying that I support Rosebank and Jackdaw, and I think we should get on and do it - Speech Link
3: Richard Baker (Lab - Glenrothes and Mid Fife) , let me focus first on the sunny uplands of the spending review and its great potential for Scotland.I - Speech Link
4: Christine Jardine (LD - Edinburgh West) That is why we are so frustrated, and why we turn again and again to the Scottish Government, and their - Speech Link
5: Kirsty McNeill (LAB - Midlothian) met Universities Scotland and representatives of our farming communities, which led very quickly to - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Driven Grouse Shooting - Mon 30 Jun 2025
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Kevin Hollinrake (Con - Thirsk and Malton) My dad was a sheep farmer, and there is plenty of sheep farming in Thirsk and Malton. - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Up to 1.8 million hectares of uplands are managed as grouse moors, and a study of upland breeding birds - Speech Link
3: Sarah Dyke (LD - Glastonbury and Somerton) and last year upland farmers received only 8% of sustainable farming incentive funding, despite uplands - Speech Link
4: Daniel Zeichner (Lab - Cambridge) shooting and managing our uplands in a sustainable way that protects wildlife, the environment and, very - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Spending Review 2025 - Wed 11 Jun 2025
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Rachel Reeves (Lab - Leeds West and Pudsey) , choking off investment and demand and creating a lost decade for growth, wages and living standards - Speech Link
2: Mel Stride (Con - Central Devon) This is a huge betrayal of our farming communities, and something that many Labour MPs in rural areas - Speech Link
3: Rachel Reeves (Lab - Leeds West and Pudsey) and our farming communities.We will use defence spending to support growth—the Defence Secretary and - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Agriculture (Delinked Payments) (Reductions) (England) Regulations 2025 - Wed 30 Apr 2025
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (Lab - Life peer) This includes up to £47 million for Farming Equipment and Technology Fund grants, as well as up to £63 - Speech Link
2: Lord Fuller (Con - Life peer) the SFI, and by taking one away the contract between the Government, Defra, farming and the food industry - Speech Link
3: Earl Russell (LD - Excepted Hereditary) It disproportionately affects smaller farmers, hill farmers and our vulnerable tenant farmers. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Coffey (Con - Life peer) productivity of farmers and the profitability of farming, but to the prosperity of the planet. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (Lab - Life peer) If we care about the future of farmingand clearly everybody in this Chamber very much does and feels - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Farming and Rural Communities - Thu 03 Apr 2025
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Roborough (Con - Excepted Hereditary) planning measures on farming and rural communities. - Speech Link
2: Lord Roborough (Con - Excepted Hereditary) by this Government on farming and rural communities is long. - Speech Link
3: Lord Elliott of Ballinamallard (UUP - Life peer) I know and appreciate that the Minister has agriculture, farming and rural communities at heart. - Speech Link
4: Lord Horam (Con - Life peer) , I was shocked and dismayed by the Budget and its effect on farming. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (Lab - Life peer) opportunities that make rural and farming communities and economies distinctive. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 20 Mar 2025
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: David Reed (Con - Exmouth and Exeter East) I am starting to feel like DEFRA Ministers are purposefully ignoring me and Devon’s farming community - Speech Link
2: Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) , 6,100 people had entered the SFI in this session, and only 40 of them were hill farmers. - Speech Link
3: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond and Northallerton) They did this with the help of the North York Moors National Park Authority and the farming and protected - Speech Link
4: Steve Reed (LAB - Streatham and Croydon North) We want farming to succeed in his constituency and in every constituency across the land. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Employment Rights Bill
Report stage (day 2) - Wed 12 Mar 2025
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Charlie Dewhirst (Con - Bridlington and The Wolds) Member for Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North (Liam Byrne) for his very measured comments. - Speech Link
2: Saqib Bhatti (Con - Meriden and Solihull East) Member for Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North (Liam Byrne), who is a friend and neighbour, talked - Speech Link
3: Lincoln Jopp (Con - Spelthorne) Member for Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North (Liam Byrne), in respect of union membership, that - Speech Link
4: Sonia Kumar (Lab - Dudley) Friend the Member for Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North (Liam Byrne). - Speech Link
5: Justin Madders (Lab - Ellesmere Port and Bromborough) Friend the Member for Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North (Liam Byrne). - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Rural Economy - Thu 19 Dec 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of St Albans (Bshp - Bishops) Farming, for example, has been dominating the news lately, and the impact of the Budget on farming communities - Speech Link
2: Lord Harlech (Con - Excepted Hereditary) I declare my farming and land management interests in Wales and that I am a member of the CLA and the - Speech Link
3: Lord Inglewood (Non-affiliated - Excepted Hereditary) Rural Britain is not only for farming and forestry. - Speech Link
4: Lord Carrington (XB - Excepted Hereditary) in some farming subsidies and poor profitability. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Small Farms and Family Businesses - Thu 12 Dec 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer (LD - Life peer) Sue Pritchard, the CEO of the Food, Farming and the Countryside Commission, said:“There is a clear and - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Newcastle (Bshp - Bishops) Most farmland in the region is used for upland and hill sheep farming. - Speech Link
3: Lord Rogan (UUP - Life peer) that is particularly resilient, and reliant on farming. - Speech Link
4: Lord Elliott of Ballinamallard (UUP - Life peer) what do this Government want from agriculture and farming? - Speech Link
5: Lord Douglas-Miller (Con - Life peer) Prime Minister said that he understood farming and promised not to interfere with APR and BPR—and yet - Speech Link