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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 05 Nov 2015
Oral Answers to Questions

"7. What estimate her Department has made of the number of households affected by lack of food security...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 05 Nov 2015
Oral Answers to Questions

"One million people relied on food-bank meals last year, which is an increase of 38% on 2013. In Oldham, 5,000 people, including 1,500 children, relied on Oldham food bank. Given the Resolution Foundation’s estimate that an additional 200,000 children will be pushed into poverty as a direct result of the …..."
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Written Question
Seals
Tuesday 2nd June 2015

Asked by: Debbie Abrahams (Labour - Oldham East and Saddleworth)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate she has made of the number of seals killed off the coast of the UK in each year since 2010.

Answered by Rory Stewart

Seal conservation is a devolved issue so I can only respond with respect to England.

No licences to cull seals have been issued in England since 2010.

This means that no permission has been granted for any common or grey seals to be taken or killed out of season. All common seals and the majority of grey seals are protected all year-round through a conservation order in the East of England.

The government has not, however, made an assessment of the number of seals which may have been killed off the English coast, notwithstanding the licensing and conservation order protections.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 26 Feb 2014
Flooding

"Will the Secretary of State give way?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 26 Feb 2014
Flooding

"Given everything that the Secretary of State has said about the emotion and trauma that is caused to householders who are flooded, do the Government regret removing the priority to

“prepare for and manage risk from flood”?

That quotation is from the ninth report of the Environment, Food and Rural …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 06 Jan 2014
Flooding

"I also extend my sympathies to families and friends who have lost loved ones.

Further to the questions asked by my hon. Friend the Member for Garston and Halewood (Maria Eagle) and others, figures from the 2010 spending review show clearly that central Government spending on flood defences has reduced …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 17 Jan 2013
Horsemeat (Supermarket Products)

"Is it more or less likely that this sort of food safety scandal will happen again in view of the reduction in food safety surveillance and the downgrading of food safety regulations?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 23 Jan 2012
Food Prices and Food Poverty

"Is my hon. Friend aware that in Oldham a food bank has been established for the first time? That was in the paper today. The vicar who set it up said that the banks are not just for homeless people but for hard-working families who are at crisis point. Reports …..."
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