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Westminster Hall
Farming in Wales and the UK - Tue 05 Mar 2024
Wales Office

Mentions:
1: Jonathan Edwards (Ind - Carmarthen East and Dinefwr) including agricultural contractors, vets, academic institutions, farming charities, legal firms and trade - Speech Link
2: Jonathan Edwards (Ind - Carmarthen East and Dinefwr) Welsh Government committed to reviewing their policy on farm slaughter last week, but there should be a wholesale - Speech Link
3: Fay Jones (Con - Brecon and Radnorshire) I gently challenge his points on trade, which he brought up on the Floor of the House yesterday. - Speech Link
4: Fay Jones (Con - Brecon and Radnorshire) Member for Carmarthen East and Dinefwr about trade, he referred to the Australia trade deal. - Speech Link
5: Fay Jones (Con - Brecon and Radnorshire) I will carry on with the point about protections in the trade deals. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Farming - Mon 04 Mar 2024
Wales Office

Mentions:
1: George Eustice (Con - Camborne and Redruth) Members have mentioned trade. - Speech Link
2: Ben Lake (PC - Ceredigion) reliant; the sources of raw materials and foodstuffs in the UK and abroad; the manufacturing, wholesale - Speech Link
3: Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con - The Cotswolds) Farm input cost inflation in 2023 stood at 42%, with wholesale energy prices 1.5 times higher compared - Speech Link
4: Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) here.Fairness is vital to food security on trade deals. - Speech Link
5: Sarah Dyke (LD - Somerton and Frome) The free trade agreements threaten to undercut and undermine our farmers even further, with cheap food - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Employment and Trade Union Rights (Dismissal and Re-engagement) Bill [HL]
2nd reading - Fri 01 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Lord Balfe (Con - Life peer) union organisation within the party, led by a German Christian Democrat trade unionist. - Speech Link
2: Lord Prentis of Leeds (Lab - Life peer) break; their shifts are being extended with no extra pay; their contractual right to eating prepared food - Speech Link
3: Lord Sikka (Lab - Life peer) estimates that in 2023, around 6.8 million workers—around 21% of them—were in severely insecure work, with wholesale - Speech Link
4: Lord Davies of Brixton (Lab - Life peer) My Lords, I should declare that I am a member of Unite, an excellent trade union. - Speech Link
5: Lord Woodley (Lab - Life peer) Also, on this important issue, it is nice to listen to your own trade union roots. - Speech Link


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