"Access to food also requires access to labour to plant, care for and pick it. Over the last year, I have had many representations from farmers in my constituency and from the National Farmers Union. What representations is my right hon. Friend making to Cabinet colleagues advocating a points-based system …..." Caroline Nokes - View Speech
"I congratulate the hon. Lady on securing this important debate. What she has just outlined shows a massive scale of premeditation, planning, thought and—I hesitate to use this word—investment. Does she not agree that the people who put in that effort to cause such suffering to animals must have sentences …..." Caroline Nokes - View Speech
"On the point about the three types of neonicotinoids that caused concern back in 2013, does my hon. Friend agree that the farming community and, indeed, retail can play a leadership role on this issue? The Leckford estate, which is owned by the John Lewis Partnership, is in my constituency. …..." Caroline Nokes - View Speech
"9. What steps the Electoral Commission is taking to make guidance clearer on the use of commonly used names on ballot papers...." Caroline Nokes - View Speech
"Advice from the Electoral Commission at the recent local elections suggested that middle names were not acceptable as commonly used names, leaving the wonderful councillor John Nigel Steward Anderdon on the ballot paper simply as “Nige”. What assurances can my hon. Friend give me that guidance will be clearer in …..." Caroline Nokes - View Speech
"Is my hon. Friend aware that a great deal more research has been done on this matter recently, and that our knowledge of the effects on animals has increased? We understand better nowadays their level of suffering than we ever have previously...." Caroline Nokes - View Speech
"It is perhaps appropriate, Mr Bone, that I bring this debate back to Hampshire, which is where it started, with my hon. Friend the Member for Winchester (Steve Brine), whom I congratulate on leading it.
In Romsey and the Test valley villages last winter, there were many types of flooding. …..." Caroline Nokes - View Speech
"I really do not have time. I am sorry, but I am left with a very few minutes to talk about flooding in Hampshire, which is where we started.
Householders were bringing out endless coffee and cakes for the tanker drivers, because they recognised that they were the people keeping …..." Caroline Nokes - View Speech
"I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for York Outer (Julian Sturdy) on having had the determination to present the Bill.
I am not sure whether I need to declare an interest. I have kept horses and ponies for a long time, but I can assure the House that I …..." Caroline Nokes - View Speech
"On one of the hottest days of the year, flooding may seem a dim and distant memory, but the effects are ongoing in Romsey. Not a single Government Minister has yet been to my constituency to see what needs to be done. Will my hon. Friend care to visit Romsey …..." Caroline Nokes - View Speech