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Commons Chamber
Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [Lords]
Report stage - Tue 19 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Lloyd Russell-Moyle (LAB - Brighton, Kemptown) Around 90% of the world’s oil palm trees are grown in just a few islands in Malaysia and Indonesia. - Speech Link
2: Greg Hands (Con - Chelsea and Fulham) , health and safety, and minimum wages. - Speech Link
3: Thérèse Coffey (Con - Suffolk Coastal) and understanding, and show how it adds value. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Jonathan Edwards (Ind - Carmarthen East and Dinefwr) He got involved in the local young farmers movement, and his best friend was David Woods, who farmed - Speech Link
2: Jonathan Edwards (Ind - Carmarthen East and Dinefwr) planting trees on productive Welsh farming land. - Speech Link
3: Fay Jones (Con - Brecon and Radnorshire) of the sustainable farming scheme: the condition that farmers must remove 10% of land for planting trees - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Protecting and Restoring Wetlands - Wed 31 Jan 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Siobhan Baillie (Con - Stroud) Gentleman’s neck of the woods and elsewhere in the country. - Speech Link
2: Siobhan Baillie (Con - Stroud) had a mic-drop moment when the experts explained that wetlands can store 18 times more carbon than trees - Speech Link
3: Rebecca Pow (Con - Taunton Deane) to get people out into nature and the countryside, but also to create skills and jobs, and it is extremely - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Lord Chartres (XB - Life peer) web, and that the health of our trees reflects and influences our state of mind, our health and our - Speech Link
2: Baroness Walmsley (LD - Life peer) and bushes and forest trees are particular issues. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (Lab - Life peer) rate of new tree threats, significantly compromising government aims, as we have heard, to create new woods - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Christmas, Christianity and Communities - Tue 19 Dec 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Nick Fletcher (Con - Don Valley) up and down the country in our villages and towns. - Speech Link
2: Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) We decorate a tree in the midst of the woods near our home in Westmorland. - Speech Link
3: Martin Vickers (Con - Cleethorpes) A local businessman had donated Christmas trees, and various community groups and businesses had decorated - Speech Link
4: Florence Eshalomi (LAB - Vauxhall) and the snowman had melted and saw the carrot for his nose and the coal for his eyes. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Debate on the Address - Tue 07 Nov 2023
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Siobhan Baillie (Con - Stroud) People rightly expect a lot of their public servants in our neck of the woods, so I mainly sit in the - Speech Link
2: Alex Cunningham (Lab - Stockton North) on poverty, health and inequalities, crime and policing, and industry and growth, but first I must get - Speech Link
3: Simon Hoare (Con - North Dorset) appears to be at the end of the tunnel, but we are not at the end of the tunnel yet—we are not out of the woods—so - Speech Link
4: Patrick Grady (SNP - Glasgow North) Prices are still going up: mortgages and rents, food and grocery bills, car and home insurance and phone - Speech Link
5: Anna McMorrin (Lab - Cardiff North) Just this week, I supported the Coed Caerdydd project and planted trees in a bid to make Cardiff a carbon-neutral - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Baroness Young of Old Scone (LAB - Life peer) and away from their ordinary and very necessary work. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Young of Old Scone (LAB - Life peer) Currently, there are more than 800 cases of ancient woodlands on the Woodland Trust’s register of woods - Speech Link
3: Baroness Pinnock (LDEM - Life peer) in the extent of the diversity of nature that is encouraged to live among the trees. - Speech Link
4: Lord Harlech (CON - Excepted Hereditary) trees during the passage of the Environment Act. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Planning and Solar Farms - Wed 19 Jul 2023
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Neil Hudson (CON - Penrith and The Border) It is similar to the trees debate: we must have the right trees in the right places. - Speech Link
2: Richard Foord (LDEM - Tiverton and Honiton) Solar and wind are two of the quickest and cheapest forms of sustainable energy. - Speech Link
3: Derek Thomas (CON - St Ives) my neck of the woods. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Woodland Cover Protection and Grey Squirrel Control - Thu 25 May 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Redesdale (LDEM - Life peer) Storm Arwen apparently took out 16 million trees and affected about 8,000 hectares of woodland. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville (LDEM - Life peer) The loss of ancient trees has hastened the loss of wildlife that used to inhabit the woods. - Speech Link
3: Lord Benyon (CON - Life peer) , improve woodland management and support a thriving green economy in our trees and woodlands. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Public Access to Nature - Thu 18 May 2023
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Caroline Lucas (GRN - Brighton, Pavilion) extended the right to roam to woods, rivers, green-belt land and more grassland. - Speech Link
2: Robin Walker (CON - Worcester) It connects green spaces in the city and accessible areas such as the Worcester Woods country park, Nunnery - Speech Link
3: Richard Graham (CON - Gloucester) I am going to ask him to come and plant another 20 trees, which have again generously been donated by - Speech Link
4: Trudy Harrison (CON - Copeland) I also wish to mention what we are doing with trees. - Speech Link