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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: Steve Reed (LAB - Croydon North) at our borders, blocking the export of high-quality British produce. - Speech Link
3: 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
4: Sarah Dyke (LD - Somerton and Frome) They want to farm. They want to rear animals. They want to grow crops. - 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 McIntosh of Pickering (Con - Life peer) Compared to the export of fresh and frozen meat, live export from GB is a small, but important, component - Speech Link
3: 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: Philip Dunne (Con - Ludlow) use framework, already delayed, would be published by the end of 2023. - Speech Link
2: Philip Dunne (Con - Ludlow) vets about whether those animals could be taken to the slaughterhouse or had to be shot on farm. - 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


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: Peter Gibson (Con - Darlington) The banning of live exports is one of the real benefits of our leaving the European Union. - Speech Link
2: Neil Hudson (Con - Penrith and The Border) months at the end of January this year. - Speech Link
3: Seema Malhotra (LAB - Feltham and Heston) The fact that animals have a right to live high-quality lives is the reason why the last Labour Government - Speech Link
4: Flick Drummond (Con - Meon Valley) The Bill provides a clear pathway to end the suffering of these innocent animals. - 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: Lord Douglas-Miller (Con - Life peer) In the 10 years prior to EU exit, the live export trade for slaughter and fattening mainly involved sheep - Speech Link
2: 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
3: Lord Douglas-Miller (Con - Life peer) trade to the previous live export trade and is in stark contrast to the 44,500 sheep that were exported - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Mark Spencer (Con - Sherwood) the production of food, and incentivises farmers to look after pollinators, which is good for the pollination - Speech Link
2: Patrick Grady (SNP - Glasgow North) The London School of Economics found that Brexit has added £250 to the average household bill. - Speech Link
3: Robert Courts (Con - Witney) We have to put an end to that. - Speech Link
4: Victoria Prentis (Con - Banbury) Applications for export licences are assessed on a case-by-case basis against strategic export licensing - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Farming - Mon 04 Mar 2024
Wales Office

Mentions:
1: Steven Bonnar (SNP - Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill) Despite constant warnings from farmers and unions in Scotland during the referendum and after, Brexit - 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: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) He looks after the farm and maintains it well. - Speech Link
4: Robbie Moore (Con - Keighley) We are also delivering the export package that the Prime Minister announced at the UK Farm to Fork summit - 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: 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
4: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (Lab - Life peer) have suffered.We have also heard that live exports of calves halted after 2019 and live exports of sheep - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 01 Feb 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Steve Barclay (Con - North East Cambridgeshire) to strengthen animal welfare standards even further by banning the export of live animals for slaughter - Speech Link
2: Neale Hanvey (Alba - Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath) According to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Australia has lower welfare - Speech Link
3: Neil Hudson (Con - Penrith and The Border) of extending the neutering deadline to the end of June 2025 for those dogs under seven months of age - Speech Link
4: Steve Barclay (Con - North East Cambridgeshire) Such is the obsession with Brexit in the SNP that we hear no mention of the impact of the war in Ukraine - Speech Link
5: Bob Blackman (Con - Harrow East) The end result is that my hon. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Hedgerows: Legal Protection - Wed 24 Jan 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Selaine Saxby (Con - North Devon) the end of cross-compliance. - Speech Link
2: Selaine Saxby (Con - North Devon) the end of cross-compliance. - Speech Link
3: Sarah Dyke (LD - Somerton and Frome) My family are rooted in the soil we live on. - Speech Link
4: Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) There is an awful lot of that around the Kent estuary near where I live, for example. - Speech Link