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Nitrate Vulnerable Zones

Adjournment debate on Tuesday, 8 January 2008, in the House of Commons, led by Philip Dunne. The answering member was Phil Woolas.
Westminster hall adjournment debate on Nitrate Vulnerable Zones.
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
470 c24-47WH 
Session
2007-08
Department
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Chamber / Committee
Westminster Hall
Proceeding contributions
Christopher Fraser | 470 c39-40WH (Link to this contribution) I compliment my hon. Friend the Member for Ludlow (Mr. Dunne) on securing the debate. He may know th...
William Cash | 470 c39WH (Link to this contribution) I endorse the excellent speeches that my own MP, my hon. Friend the Member for Ludlow (Mr. Dunne), a...

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Speaker | 470 c45WH (Link to this contribution) I have asked the Minister not to reply to the criticisms about his antecedents as a farming expert. ...
James Paice | 470 c44-5WH (Link to this contribution) Yes, hopefully it will be a general election. The Minister must also address the issue of the time ...
James Paice | 470 c43-4WH (Link to this contribution) I remind hon. Members of my entry in the Register of Members' Interests. As others have rightly done...
Tim Farron | 470 c42-3WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for making that intervention, and I shall mention in a moment th...
David Drew | 470 c42WH (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman accept that something that has not been mentioned—I apologise if I missed it...
Tim Farron | 470 c40-2WH (Link to this contribution) I welcome you to the Chair to oversee this welcome debate, Mr. Hancock, and I congratulate the hon. ...
Lord Benyon | 470 c40WH (Link to this contribution) I remind the House of my entry in the Register of Members' Interests—that has probably used up most ...
Speaker | 470 c38WH (Link to this contribution) Order. I want to allow two extra Members to speak, but if their remarks are not succinct, I shall no...
Philip Dunne | 470 c30-1WH (Link to this contribution) Again, I was briefly going to touch on that issue, but the point is well made. A requirement to pla...
David Kidney | 470 c33-6WH (Link to this contribution) Happy new year to you, Sir Nicholas, and your colleagues on the Chairmen's Panel. I congratulate the...
Speaker | 470 c33WH (Link to this contribution) We have about 25 minutes for Back-Bench contributions before the winding-up speeches, unless the Fro...
Mark Simmonds | 470 c37-8WH (Link to this contribution) May I begin, Sir Nicholas, by saying how pleased I am to see you in the Chair this morning? I congra...
Daniel Kawczynski | 470 c36-7WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my neighbour my hon. Friend the Member for Ludlow (Mr. Dunne) on securing the debate....
Philip Dunne | 470 c31-2WH (Link to this contribution) Indeed, and such planting might adversely affect the optimum rotation for the farm. The loss of ove...
Lord Benyon | 470 c31WH (Link to this contribution) Or by doing more autumn-sown planting.
Philip Dunne | 470 c32-3WH (Link to this contribution) It does not have to be like that. There is already significant evidence of reducing nitrate fertilis...
Phil Woolas | 470 c45-6WH (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Hancock. The debate has indeed been interesting and important. I understand its impor...
Phil Woolas | 470 c46WH (Link to this contribution) As ever in these important debates, the Minister finds himself in a position of being unable to answ...
William Cash | 470 c46WH (Link to this contribution) How does the Minister answer the NFU's claim that the nitrate level risk that is prescribed by the d...
Phil Woolas | 470 c47WH (Link to this contribution) Hon. Gentlemen are pressing me. If I give way, I will not be able to answer all questions that have ...
Phil Woolas | 470 c47WH (Link to this contribution) What I have in mind on that is the importance of storage. I understand the point about cover crops, ...
Lord Benyon | 470 c47WH (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister respond to the points made about the gold-plating of the regulations, particularly...
Speaker | 470 c47WH (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister and hon. Members for their co-operation. I hope that Members who are leaving wi...
David Leslie Taylor | 470 c24WH (Link to this contribution) I am a member of the Select Committee on Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. It is true that farmin...
Philip Dunne | 470 c24WH (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure, as always, to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Nicholas. I am grateful for...
Philip Dunne | 470 c24-5WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his intervention. Indeed, I was going to mention the great p...
Philip Dunne | 470 c29WH (Link to this contribution) That was another useful contribution. I was about to tell the House of measures that the Government ...
James Paice | 470 c29WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend spoke of the costs to farmers and the investment required for the necessary storage, ...
Philip Dunne | 470 c29-30WH (Link to this contribution) It is almost uncanny that every intervention raises a point that I would have mentioned later. My ho...
Mark Simmonds | 470 c30WH (Link to this contribution) That change would have a significant impact in my constituency in Lincolnshire. Is my hon. Friend aw...
Philip Dunne | 470 c30WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is clearly another clairvoyant. The proposal bears all the hallmarks of Labour's ill...
James Paice | 470 c30WH (Link to this contribution) The Minister suggests from a sedentary position that my hon. Friend is wrong. It would improve the q...
Speaker | 470 c30WH (Link to this contribution) Order. If the Minister wishes to intervene, I am sure that he will do so. However, he will have adeq...
Roger Williams | 470 c30WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is extremely generous in giving way again. A number of conservation schemes pay p...
Philip Dunne | 470 c30WH (Link to this contribution) The Minister declines your offer, Sir Nicholas, but he indicates that he will answer the point later...
Lord Boswell of Aynho | 470 c25WH (Link to this contribution) I am not quite sure that I can claim that, but perhaps I could remind my hon. Friend that I had mini...
Philip Dunne | 470 c25-7WH (Link to this contribution) Indeed. My hon. Friend pre-empts precisely what I was going to say. From my research through the his...
Philip Dunne | 470 c25WH (Link to this contribution) I give way to my hon. Friend, who was probably there are the time.
Lord Boswell of Aynho | 470 c27WH (Link to this contribution) I am most grateful to my hon. Friend; I appreciate that he has already given way once. I wish simply...
Philip Dunne | 470 c27-9WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend; I hope that the Minister will take note of his intervention. The in...
Roger Williams | 470 c27WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Ludlow (Mr. Dunne) on securing this debate. His constituency neig...
Philip Dunne | 470 c27WH (Link to this contribution) I am particularly grateful to my constituency neighbour, the hon. Gentleman. I was not going to pers...
Andrew George | 470 c29WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a strong point. Will he comment on the commercial inconsistency of the Gove...
Philip Dunne | 470 c29WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend, neighbour and indeed constituent for making that point so graphical...
William Cash | 470 c29WH (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend appreciate that my constituents in Staffordshire will be among those most heavil...
Subjects
Agriculture
Farms
EU action
Pollution
Water
Nitrates
Nitrate vulnerable zones
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