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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 01 May 2019
Environment and Climate Change

"Like many colleagues from across the House, I agree that we are in a climate emergency and should act accordingly. Somerset County Council and other councils around the south-west have already taken the lead on this, and I am glad that other councils, and hopefully the Government, will follow suit.

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 10 Oct 2018
Agriculture Bill

"Will the hon. Lady explain how much, according to her calculations, it will cost to achieve net zero in agriculture? Will that be met from general taxation through the Government or through increased food prices at the supermarket?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 10 Oct 2018
Agriculture Bill

"When the last Agriculture Bill went through this place in 1947, we were genuinely concerned about our ability to feed ourselves. In the year that potatoes hit the ration list, food security was the core component of the legislation. Times have now changed and so have our priorities. I welcome …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 14 Nov 2017
Marine Environment

"It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Owen. I congratulate the hon. Member for Huddersfield (Mr Sheerman) on securing today’s debate.

The Government have a good record on dealing with pollution in our seas, and I congratulate not only the Minister, but the Secretary of State on …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 19 Oct 2016
South-west Agriculture and Fishing

"It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mrs Moon. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for North Cornwall (Scott Mann), who is a fellow south-west MP, on securing this important debate. This is the second debate in just over a week to which south-west Members have turned …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 19 Oct 2016
South-west Agriculture and Fishing

"I agree very much. I will come back to the importance of getting the voices of individual farmers heard. This is a question not just of subsidy—although that is clearly what most farmers will be listening for most keenly—but of access to seasonal manpower and markets, and the regulations that …..."
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Written Question
Caves
Tuesday 29th March 2016

Asked by: James Heappey (Conservative - Wells)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000, what her policy is on the extension of the definition of mapped open countryside to caves.

Answered by George Eustice

Section 2(1) of the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 provides for a right of access on foot for the purposes of open-air recreation to land which has been mapped as open country (mountain, moor, heath and down) and registered common land.

The Government has no plans to extend the definition of mapped land under that Act to apply to caves.

Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 28 Jan 2016
Basic Payment Scheme

"I beg to move,

That this House has considered the Basic Payment Scheme.

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Betts—I believe it is the first time. I thank the National Farmers Union, its members and officials back home in Somerset and its team nationally. They have …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 28 Jan 2016
Basic Payment Scheme

"I very much agree with my hon. Friend. I will shortly come on to some of the impacts of late payments that I have seen, but he makes a good point, which I hope the Minister will take away. Perhaps those of us here today might seek to lobby the …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 28 Jan 2016
Basic Payment Scheme

"My hon. Friend does the farmers of Dorset a great service in raising those issues, which I intend to speak on at some length because they are hugely important.

I have the great honour of serving on the Select Committee on Energy and Climate Change, and one thing that I …..."
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