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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 23 Jun 2022
Oral Answers to Questions

"What is the Secretary of State’s latest assessment of the impact on farm profits of plunging exports, new red tape and the labour shortage caused by the Conservative Government’s Brexit deal?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 23 Jun 2022
Oral Answers to Questions

"What assessment has the Church of England made of the impact, particularly on rural Church of England schools, of the dramatic reduction in the number of priests in some dioceses? Does the hon. Member share my concern that money generated by parishes is being increasingly sucked into diocesan administration and …..."
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Written Question
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Quarantine
Wednesday 10th November 2021

Asked by: Ben Bradshaw (Labour - Exeter)

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many of his Department's ministers have been exempted from quarantine in a hotel after returning to the UK from a covid-19 red list country to which they have travelled for the purposes of conducting official business.

Answered by Baroness Prentis of Banbury

Details of Ministers’ overseas travel are published quarterly on GOV.UK, and all travel is arranged in line with official regulations.

Ministers are able to claim an exemption from travel restrictions under the ‘Crown Servants or government contractors exemption’. The full text of this exemption can be found under the Government guidance Coronavirus (COVID-19): jobs that qualify for travel exemptions, available on GOV.UK.

Written Question
Ivory Act 2018
Monday 14th June 2021

Asked by: Ben Bradshaw (Labour - Exeter)

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions his Department is having with the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport on the implementation of the Ivory Act 2018 and ensuring technology companies work with enforcement officers to prevent the illegal trade of ivory products.

Answered by Rebecca Pow

The Department has not discussed the role of technology companies with the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. Contractors have had early discussions about the role of online sales platforms. We will work with a range of interested parties and stake holders to ensure the ban on dealing in elephant ivory is enforced effectively.

Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 17 Mar 2021
Offshore Wind Farms: Unexploded Ordnance

"It is a great pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Dowd. I congratulate the hon. Member for Ochil and South Perthshire (John Nicolson) on securing this very important debate. I was the Minister for the marine environment for four years under the previous Labour Government, and I took through …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 08 Feb 2021
UK Shellfish Exports

"Our superb west country shellfish sector faces ruin because of the Government’s botched Brexit deal. The Secretary of State has said repeatedly that he does not want to water down UK food standards now that we have left the EU, so why not do what fellow non-EU fishing nation Norway …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 06 Feb 2020
Oral Answers to Questions

"If the Secretary of State has read the unprecedented four reports in the last Parliament by the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee—chaired by the hon. Member for Tiverton and Honiton (Neil Parish), who is sitting behind her—she will know that a lack of power and resources in local government …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 06 Feb 2020
Oral Answers to Questions

"7. Whether the Commissioners were consulted on recent guidance by the Church on civil partnerships; and if he will make a statement. ..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 06 Feb 2020
Oral Answers to Questions

"Regardless of that, I think it was discourteous of the bishops not to inform the Second Church Estates Commissioner. The legislation was passed overwhelmingly in this House with all-party support. It is bad enough that the Church still treats its LGBT+ members as second-class Christians, but to say to the …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 13 Mar 2019
UK’s Withdrawal from the European Union

"Will the Secretary of State give way?..."
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