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Written Statements
Funding for Woodlands and Timber Industry - Tue 29 Nov 2022
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Thérèse Coffey (CON - Suffolk Coastal) Today we announced £20 million of funding to improve tree planting stocks, woodland resilience and domestic - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Bill
2nd reading - Mon 21 Nov 2022
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Jopling (CON - Life peer) This clearly rules out our elephant and oak tree liaison, which I referred to earlier, but I can foresee - Speech Link
2: Earl of Stair (CB - Excepted Hereditary) My Lords, I draw attention to my interests in agriculture, forestry and horticulture. - Speech Link
3: Earl of Devon (CB - Excepted Hereditary) and climate-resistant tree species, which are essential to the fulfilment of our extensive net-zero - Speech Link
4: Lord Carrington (CB - Excepted Hereditary) been purely farming land for the provision of energy, biodiversity and woodland or forestry, leaving - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Nature and Climate Declaration - Wed 09 Nov 2022
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Derek Thomas (CON - St Ives) There is not time to go into the full detail now, but the use of herbal leys, tree planting and cattle - Speech Link
2: Trudy Harrison (CON - Copeland) Tree planting is so important for biodiversity, and it is at the heart of our environmental plans for - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Trade (Australia and New Zealand) Bill
2nd reading - Tue 06 Sep 2022
Department for International Trade

Mentions:
1: David Mundell (CON - Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale) sheep industry relates not to these trade deals, but to the SNP Scottish Government’s plans to allow tree - Speech Link
2: Drew Hendry (SNP - Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey) Member is skating over the fact that the Tory Government have neglected their tree-planting duties in - Speech Link
3: Drew Hendry (SNP - Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey) and reduced income in food production, forestry and fishing; no protections on environmental or animal - Speech Link
4: Angus Brendan MacNeil (SNP - Na h-Eileanan an Iar) For New Zealand alone, agriculture, forestry and fishing will lose between £48 million and £97 million.The - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Agricultural and County Shows - Thu 21 Jul 2022
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Stephen Crabb (CON - Preseli Pembrokeshire) There is also the point about tree planting in Wales. - Speech Link
2: Ben Lake (PC - Ceredigion) , and the challenge of losing large tracts of agricultural land to planation for forestry and offsetting - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Protecting and Restoring Nature: COP15 and Beyond - Thu 14 Jul 2022
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Chris Grayling (CON - Epsom and Ewell) some degree of sustainable logging and forestry, because that can be done in a nature-friendly way. - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Gentleman feel that there should be more of a commitment to tree planting, to ensure that we can become - Speech Link
3: Ruth Jones (LAB - Newport West) The planned spending on tree planting is dwarfed by subsidies to Drax to ship and burn wood pellets from - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Food Security - Mon 13 Jun 2022
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of Southwark (Bishops - Bishops) My Lords, does the Minister agree that industrial-scale tree planting by large investment companies which - Speech Link
2: Lord Benyon (CON - Life peer) why the Forestry Commission, if applying through grant aid schemes, will require standards to be maintained - Speech Link
3: Lord Benyon (CON - Life peer) seeing tree planting on poor-quality land, for example. - Speech Link
4: Lord Benyon (CON - Life peer) Under the Forestry Commission’s rules, there is a local consultation process that proposed tree planters - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Tree Health in England - Thu 09 Jun 2022
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Harries of Pentregarth (CB - Life peer) The Government have a policy to try to increase tree planting. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Young of Old Scone (LAB - Life peer) It is vital that the whole tree planting and nursery industry, along with the conservation world, is - Speech Link
3: Lord Colgrain (CON - Excepted Hereditary) Can he indicate what work is being done to encourage the introduction and planting of new tree species - Speech Link
4: Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (LAB - Life peer) For every tree that dies as a result of invasive pests and diseases, meeting the planting target becomes - Speech Link
5: Lord Benyon (CON - Life peer) to build, and not to have to wait for five decades, as we have with elm.We recognise that the tree-planting - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 28 Apr 2022
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Jo Churchill (CON - Bury St Edmunds) It is a great idea, and there are also schemes where people can rent and save money by doing so, and - Speech Link
2: Jo Churchill (CON - Bury St Edmunds) I have an organic fertiliser task and finish group and I am talking to industry and farmers. - Speech Link
3: Jo Churchill (CON - Bury St Edmunds) for planting nitrogen-fixing plants, for example, and that we are making the most of all the technology - Speech Link
4: Robin Millar (CON - Aberconwy) tree planting is, specifically, the creation of a new asset class by carbon capture incentives, which - Speech Link
5: George Eustice (CON - Camborne and Redruth) market, including looking at where we should allow private capital to support the development of new forestry - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Direct Payment to Farmers (Reductions) (England) Regulations 2022 - Mon 21 Mar 2022
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: None Is there not a danger that this will encourage a huge shift to planting trees, where a more holistic - Speech Link
2: Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park (CON - Life peer) to tree pest and disease findings will not be published. - Speech Link
3: Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park (CON - Life peer) planting, most of the funding for which comes from the nature for climate fund. - Speech Link