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Scottish Parliament Debate - Main Chamber
Agriculture and Rural Communities (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1 - Wed 27 Mar 2024

Mentions:
1: Carson, Finlay (Con - Galloway and West Dumfries) We visited arable, dairy and hill farms, and we held a consultative event with farmers, crofters and - Speech Link
2: Hamilton, Rachael (Con - Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire) We want a critical mass of livestock to be retained rather than Scotland’s uplands replaced with renewables - Speech Link
3: Leonard, Richard (Lab - Central Scotland) , and then £1.7 for Bowhill Farming Ltd. - Speech Link
4: Burgess, Ariane (Green - Highlands and Islands) In the uplands and the islands, the inflated cost of inputs has pushed some farming and crofting communities - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Sustainable Farming Incentive: Species Management and ELMS - Thu 25 Jan 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Earl of Caithness (Con - Excepted Hereditary) just too simplistic and naive to blame all the failure on farming operations. - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Norwich (Bshp - Bishops) Finally, ELMS is just one side of the coin when it comes to nature and farming. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville (LD - Life peer) farming initiative, local nature recovery and landscape recovery. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Farming - Mon 04 Mar 2024
Wales Office

Mentions:
1: Ben Lake (PC - Ceredigion) It notes how hill cattle and sheep farms made a profit of some £24,000 after rent and finance, but excluding - Speech Link
2: George Freeman (Con - Mid Norfolk) We need a long-term, secure policy, that has enough support and flexibility to allow marginal hill farmers - Speech Link
3: Robbie Moore (Con - Keighley) Hill and upland farmers have been mentioned, and I want to take the opportunity to highlight the offer - Speech Link


Scottish Parliament Debate - Committee
Agriculture and Rural Communities (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1 - Wed 29 Nov 2023

Mentions:
1: Grant, Rhoda (Lab - Highlands and Islands) If you are comparing the quality of a sheep coming off the hill and going elsewhere for finishing with - Speech Link
2: None We see that there is real strength in our uplands and marginal areas, with farmers and crofters being - Speech Link
3: Fairlie, Jim (SNP - Perthshire South and Kinross-shire) It may have been bred on a very high hill place that is harsh and it may look to all intents and purposes - Speech Link
4: None strategy—farmlands and uplands, in particular. - Speech Link
5: None regenerative farming. - Speech Link
6: Hamilton, Rachael (Con - Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire) regenerative farming. - Speech Link
7: None regenerative farming. - Speech Link
8: None regenerative farming. - Speech Link


Scottish Parliament Debate - Committee
Wildlife Management and Muirburn (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2 - Wed 21 Feb 2024

Mentions:
1: Hamilton, Rachael (Con - Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire) farming, deer, peatland restoration and renewables. - Speech Link
2: Mountain, Edward (Con - Highlands and Islands) One could argue that there should be a different season, as was done under the Hill Farming Act 1946, - Speech Link
3: Burgess, Ariane (Green - Highlands and Islands) The data that I have refers to moorland birds in the English, Welsh and Scottish uplands. - Speech Link
4: Mountain, Edward (Con - Highlands and Islands) Argocats get people and firefighting equipment up on the hill. - Speech Link


Departmental Publication (News and Communications)
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Aug. 09 2023

Source Page: Update: Independent Evidence Review on Dartmoor
Document: Update: Independent Evidence Review on Dartmoor (webpage)

Found: It will also recognise the important roles that hill farming plays on Dartmoor in contributing to community


Scottish Parliament Debate - Main Chamber
Wildlife Management and Muirburn (Scotland) Bill: Stage 3 - Thu 21 Mar 2024

Mentions:
1: Burgess, Ariane (Green - Highlands and Islands) and to ensure that the legislation continues to deliver for Scotland’s wildlife and uplands for generations - Speech Link
2: Mountain, Edward (Con - Highlands and Islands) on a hill, and not just for grouse. - Speech Link
3: Fairlie, Jim (SNP - Perthshire South and Kinross-shire) I have lived through some great highs and very real lows in my farming career. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [Lords]
2nd reading - Mon 29 Jan 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Kemi Badenoch (Con - Saffron Walden) Member for Birmingham, Hodge Hill (Liam Byrne), raised questions about China, and I promised to address - Speech Link
2: Neil Hudson (Con - Penrith and The Border) and farming and in how we regard animal health. - Speech Link
3: Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Lab - Slough) surrounding farming and China. - Speech Link
4: Greg Hands (Con - Chelsea and Fulham) Member for Birmingham, Hodge Hill (Liam Byrne) and the hon. Member for Walthamstow (Stella Creasy). - Speech Link


Scottish Government Publication (Research and analysis)
Environment and Forestry Directorate
Agriculture and Rural Economy Directorate

Aug. 29 2023

Source Page: New Rural Support Scheme development - evidence: outputs summary
Document: Biodiversity and Environmental Conditionality (PDF)

Found: importantly woodlands ), farming and crofting systems , and localities


Scottish Parliament Debate - Committee
Agriculture and Rural Communities (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1 - Wed 20 Dec 2023

Mentions:
1: None farming methods, and that absolutely means embedding those methods in all our farming and food production - Speech Link
2: None None of the long list of matters that the convener read out has just come over the hill today; they have - Speech Link
3: None mean by “ineligible land” and “active farming”. - Speech Link
4: None That is a big issue for the farmers and crofters that we work with in the hill, upland and crofting areas - Speech Link
5: None A lot of the current work on deer looks at deer in the uplands and on large estates. - Speech Link