"My Lords, I support Amendments 8 and 9, et cetera, proposed by the noble Lord, Lord Carrington, about treating self-employed agricultural staff as full-time staff members on a farm for the purposes of the Bill. As this is the first time I have spoken on the Bill—probably the only time …..." Lord Cameron of Dillington - View Speech
"My Lords, first, I declare my involvement in a family farming and land management business. Secondly, I record my thanks to the Bill team for their courtesy in coming together to answer my series of very naive questions.
"My Lords, it will be no surprise to anyone in the House that I strongly support this statutory instrument. Precision breeding as a method of plant breeding is safer and more precise than the random selection methods of existing traditional breeding. Above all, it is the speeding up of the …..." Lord Cameron of Dillington - View Speech
"My Lords, I ought to report on Amendment 111 in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Offord. The assessment of the effects of offshore wind farms on the environment, with particular reference to sea-birds, has been ongoing for some years now. That does not necessarily undermine the future of …..." Lord Cameron of Dillington - View Speech
"My Lords, I support the last speaker on Amendment 65. When I saw Amendment 65 in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Offord, on the readiness of the National Grid for this brave new world, I realised that this is probably the key amendment to the Bill in terms …..." Lord Cameron of Dillington - View Speech
"My Lords, Amendment 86 in my name is, as noble Lords will realise, very similar to Amendment 56 in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Hayman, which was spoken to last month by the noble Lord, Lord Ravensdale. The point is that we all have concerns about the overwhelming …..." Lord Cameron of Dillington - View Speech
"My Lords, I sympathise with the amendments on land use put down by the noble Lord, Lord Fuller. He wishes to ensure that in this very densely populated country of England we use our limited available land wisely. England—not the UK—is, I think, the fifth or sixth most densely populated …..." Lord Cameron of Dillington - View Speech
"My Lords, I thank the noble Earl for promoting this debate, and I declare my interest as a retired farmer who has already handed on to his son.
To plagiarise LP Hartley’s famous opening lines: “The farm is a foreign country: they do things differently there”. There is a different …..." Lord Cameron of Dillington - View Speech
"My Lords, I do not believe that the Bill should be too specific on the investment targets of GBE. As I said in an earlier group, I believe that GBE should remain flexible and fleet of foot, adapting itself over the years to the development of science and changes in …..." Lord Cameron of Dillington - View Speech
"My Lords, I added my name to my noble friend Lord Vaux’s Amendments 4, 6 and 7. This was largely because when the Bill went through its stages in the other place, the Government made frequent references to the fact that an essential quality of Great British Energy was that …..." Lord Cameron of Dillington - View Speech