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Dairy Industry

Adjournment debate on Tuesday, 22 May 2007, in the House of Commons, led by Mark Williams. The answering member was Ben Bradshaw.
Westminster Hall adjournment debate on the dairy industry.
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
460 c381-404WH 
Session
2006-07
Department
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Chamber / Committee
Westminster Hall
Proceeding contributions
Daniel Kawczynski | 460 c390WH (Link to this contribution) Yes, I totally concur. Indeed, that point was raised at the all-party group’s annual general meeting...
Andrew George | 460 c390WH (Link to this contribution) I welcome the hon. Gentleman’s endorsement of the concept of a regulator. What the sector requires i...

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Daniel Kawczynski | 460 c389WH (Link to this contribution) And Plaid. However, I hope that the Conservative party and the Labour party will look closely at int...
Hywel Williams | 460 c391-2WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is quite right. Indeed, we in Wales are concerned not only about aspects of farmi...
Andrew George | 460 c392WH (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman reflect on the fact that, although dairy farmers in the United Kingdom are c...
Hywel Williams | 460 c391WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Ceredigion (Mark Williams) on securing the debate. This is an ext...
Lembit Opik | 460 c391WH (Link to this contribution) In a sense, the hon. Gentleman is right that there is a rainbow coalition on this issue. Does he agr...
Helen Goodman | 460 c390WH (Link to this contribution) I found that the OFT was prepared to take complaints from my constituency that I had anonymised for ...
Daniel Kawczynski | 460 c390-1WH (Link to this contribution) Yes, that is very much the case. However, the point remains that many farmers are fearful, and the c...
Mark Williams | 460 c386WH (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend, and I have certainly sent that message in my dealings with farmers in m...
Daniel Kawczynski | 460 c386-7WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Ceredigion (Mark Williams) on securing this very important debate...
Daniel Kawczynski | 460 c388WH (Link to this contribution) I do not know how to reply to that. I certainly stick by my comments that there should be rationalis...
Helen Goodman | 460 c388WH (Link to this contribution) What the hon. Gentleman says is absolutely right. The point about the message that he has been given...
Daniel Kawczynski | 460 c388-9WH (Link to this contribution) Absolutely correct. I am grateful to the hon. Lady for that intervention. The hon. Member for Cered...
Daniel Kawczynski | 460 c387-8WH (Link to this contribution) Indeed. Obviously, the dairy sector is far more important than Anglo-Russian relations. I should li...
Stephen Crabb | 460 c388WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an extremely important point. Does he agree that one potential solution to the ...
Daniel Kawczynski | 460 c388WH (Link to this contribution) I totally concur with that. It goes back to the point that there is a role for the Government to exa...
David Drew | 460 c388WH (Link to this contribution) I totally agree with the hon. Gentleman. The problem is that we had such a body—it was called the mi...
Hywel Williams | 460 c392-3WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes an excellent point. When dairying in this country—particularly in my part o...
Geoffrey Cox | 460 c393-4WH (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman believe that everything from Europe that affects the dairy industry is posit...
Tim Farron | 460 c393WH (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure, Mr. Chope, to serve under your guidance twice in the same morning and to congratul...
Helen Goodman | 460 c395WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Ceredigion (Mark Williams) on securing this important debate. Onl...
Tim Farron | 460 c394-5WH (Link to this contribution) I do not believe that everything that comes from the European Union is positive. One of our problems...
Roger Williams | 460 c395-7WH (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to see you in the Chair, Mr. Chope. I pay tribute to my hon. Friend the Membe...
Geoffrey Cox | 460 c397WH (Link to this contribution) Was the hon. Gentleman present when the all-party group held an interesting session with senior repr...
Roger Williams | 460 c397WH (Link to this contribution) Unfortunately, I was not present when those comments were made. I believe that there is room to make...
Andrew George | 460 c397-8WH (Link to this contribution) On international competition, I have never argued that supermarket executives are products of the lo...
Stephen Crabb | 460 c383WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is being extremely generous with his interventions. My discussions with represent...
Mark Williams | 460 c383WH (Link to this contribution) I of course agree and it would be churlish not to welcome those moves, in so far as they go, but we ...
Andrew George | 460 c385-6WH (Link to this contribution) I am interested in the relative gullibility of the hon. Member for Preseli Pembrokeshire (Mr. Crabb)...
Mark Williams | 460 c384-5WH (Link to this contribution) The proof of the pudding will be in the eating. What will happen remains to be seen, but I would lik...
Andrew George | 460 c383WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is making a good point. On the Competition Commission inquiry, does he agree that the...
Roger Williams | 460 c398WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a good point; indeed, he has been at the fore in putting those views forward. M...
James Paice | 460 c402WH (Link to this contribution) I totally appreciate that point, and I am grateful to the Minister. He quotes Milk Link’s price, so ...
Ben Bradshaw | 460 c402-4WH (Link to this contribution) I join the hon. Gentleman in welcoming that situation. It is also important that we politicians and...
Speaker | 460 c404WH (Link to this contribution) Order. We now move to the next debate. Will hon. Members who are leaving the Chamber please do so qu...
James Paice | 460 c398WH (Link to this contribution) I, too, congratulate the hon. Member for Ceredigion (Mark Williams) on securing this debate, which, ...
Ben Bradshaw | 460 c401-2WH (Link to this contribution) I start by apologising for the absence of my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State for Environmen...
James Paice | 460 c398-401WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady says that it is the Opposition’s choice, but if she were to look at some Order Papers,...
Ben Bradshaw | 460 c402WH (Link to this contribution) I shall give way, but I must warn Members that my policy is to be courteous to the hon. Member for C...
Hywel Williams | 460 c382WH (Link to this contribution) The situation is compounded by the difficulties faced by new entrants and the average age of the wor...
Mark Williams | 460 c382WH (Link to this contribution) I agree and I thank the hon. Gentleman for that contribution, as the situation is much as he describ...
Mark Williams | 460 c382-3WH (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for that comment. One concern that is doubtless raised in his meetings wi...
Mark Williams | 460 c381WH (Link to this contribution) It is a privilege to serve under your chairmanship, Mr. Chope. The last time that I recall us having...
Stephen Crabb | 460 c381WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has rightly pointed out that policy on bovine TB has been devolved to the Welsh A...
Subjects
Costs
Dairy farming
Dairy products
Finance
Farmers
Prices
Milk
Supermarkets
Contains statistics
Yes
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