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Lords Chamber
Sustainable Farming Incentive: Species Management and ELMS - Thu 25 Jan 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Robathan (Con - Life peer) I support much of ELMS and everything else, but I am rather keen on planting trees. - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Norwich (Bshp - Bishops) I give a tree to every person I confirm as a sign of the care of God’s creation. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville (LD - Life peer) The Forestry Commission argues that, although wild deer contribute to the UK’s biodiversity, they can - 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) non-essential tree felling should be banned between March and August to give declining bird species - Speech Link
2: Trudy Harrison (Con - Copeland) England and the Forestry Commission.I am delighted that we published the environmental improvement plan - Speech Link
3: Rebecca Pow (Con - Taunton Deane) Through a lot of our tree strategy and action plan to plant trees, we have a big focus on skills, training - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Biosecurity and Infectious Diseases - Thu 18 Jan 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Trees (XB - Life peer) That was more than twice the area of new larch tree planting that year.What is being done about these - Speech Link
2: Lord Lilley (Con - Life peer) The Forestry Commission says that there seems to have been an increase since 2002. - Speech Link
3: Lord Carrington (XB - Excepted Hereditary) climate change, which, together with increased tree-planting targets to assist our carbon strategy, - Speech Link
4: Earl of Cork and Orrery (XB - Excepted Hereditary) and movement, such as forestry and horticulture. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (Lab - Life peer) how tree imports can have a catastrophic impact on our trees and woodlands. - 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: Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville (LD - Life peer) It is ironic that, at a time in the UK when the Government are setting ambitious targets for tree planting - Speech Link
2: Lord McNicol of West Kilbride (Lab - Life peer) Impact assessments on ISDS, animal welfare, pesticides, commodities, workers’ rights, forestry and public - Speech Link
3: None considered to be at risk of deforestation, except Malaysia which has experienced a 29% reduction in tree - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Highways Maintenance and Integrated Transport Funding - Mon 18 Dec 2023
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Jonathan Gullis (Con - Stoke-on-Trent North) about in Stoke-on-Trent North, Kidsgrove and Talke, and when dealing with casework in the office, the - Speech Link
2: Guy Opperman (Con - Hexham) of forestry lorries in my own patch in Hexham. - Speech Link


General Committees
Draft Plant Health etc. (Miscellaneous Fees) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2023 - Tue 05 Dec 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Mark Spencer (Con - Sherwood) They amend the Plant Health (Fees) (Forestry) (England and Scotland) Regulations 2015 and the Plant Health - Speech Link
2: Toby Perkins (Lab - Chesterfield) impact on small and large-scale exporters, and on small and large businesses in the UK market? - Speech Link
3: Mark Spencer (Con - Sherwood) certificate to transport goods of this nature to Northern Ireland—just as if someone were sending a tree - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 29 Nov 2023
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Selaine Saxby (Con - North Devon) planting in Scotland. - Speech Link
2: John Lamont (Con - Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk) I very much welcome this question, which is timely in National Tree Week. - Speech Link
3: Selaine Saxby (Con - North Devon) Friend agree that there should now be a UK-wide target for 60% of new planting to be productive forestry - Speech Link
4: John Lamont (Con - Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk) There are high ambitions across the United Kingdom to increase forestry planting. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Grey Squirrels - Tue 28 Nov 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Trudy Harrison (Con - Copeland) the diverse and varied forestry workforce and everyone who cares for and appreciates trees. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill
Report stage: Part 1 - Wed 13 Sep 2023
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Baroness Pinnock (LDEM - Life peer) So, it is not simply a question of cutting down a tree; it is destroying a habitat. - Speech Link
2: Lord Harlech (CON - Excepted Hereditary) Officials from DLUHC and Defra are working with the Woodland Trust, the Forestry Commission and Natural - Speech Link


General Committees
Draft Windsor Framework (Enforcement etc.) Regulations 2023 - Mon 11 Sep 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Mark Spencer (CON - Sherwood) health label regime will remove the requirement on plants for planting and used farming or forestry - Speech Link
2: Hilary Benn (LAB - Leeds Central) your local PHSI Inspector.”The Minister will be aware that the inability to move certain species of tree - Speech Link
3: Mark Spencer (CON - Sherwood) that they can move in time for the main 2023 planting season. - Speech Link
4: Mark Spencer (CON - Sherwood) Obviously, no one will be planting a tree at this moment in time and we will then move into winter. - Speech Link
5: Mark Spencer (CON - Sherwood) It will be similar to moving an infected tree from London to Edinburgh, or from London to Shropshire. - Speech Link