Parliamentary search - Food Security

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Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

478 c656-702

Session

2007-08

Department

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Proceeding contributions

James Paice | 478 c658 (Link to this contribution) I hope that this debate will succeed in correcting that impression, which has been given by the Gove...

Speaker | 478 c656 (Link to this contribution) I have to inform the House that Mr. Speaker has selected the amendment tabled in the name of the Pri...

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Tim Farron | 478 c657 (Link to this contribution) Is the hon. Gentleman aware that National England recently produced a manifesto for the countryside,...

James Paice | 478 c656-7 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move,"That this House notes with concern current food shortages which are believed to have ...

James Paice | 478 c665 (Link to this contribution) In that case, I will give way.

David Curry | 478 c664 (Link to this contribution) My point is about milk.

James Paice | 478 c664 (Link to this contribution) I have not yet answered my right hon. Friend's other question, but I am about to do so, if he will a...

James Paice | 478 c664 (Link to this contribution) If I had been able to return to my speech, my next sentence would have dealt with that issue, and I ...

James Paice | 478 c664 (Link to this contribution) I am conscious of having taken a lot of time, but I give way to the hon. Gentleman.

Andrew George | 478 c664 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

James Paice | 478 c665-6 (Link to this contribution) I can only agree with my right hon. Friend. I am well aware of the situation that he has described, ...

David Curry | 478 c665 (Link to this contribution) I refer to Members to my entry in the Register of Members' Interests. Does my hon. Friend accept th...

Hilary Benn | 478 c669 (Link to this contribution) I intend to reflect upon that point. I think I am right in saying that this was the first trial to w...

Peter Atkinson | 478 c668 (Link to this contribution) On the destroyed potato trial plot, it would help if the Secretary of State changed the Government's...

Hilary Benn | 478 c670 (Link to this contribution) If my hon. Friend will bear with me a moment longer, I will come on to that point. The UK currently...

David Leslie Taylor | 478 c669-70 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State will be aware that when addressing the National Farmers Union conference in F...

Hilary Benn | 478 c667-8 (Link to this contribution) I agree. Like a number of other countries, the United Kingdom has a long and honourable tradition of...

David Drew | 478 c667 (Link to this contribution) It is good to hear that the World Food Programme is putting more resources into Sudan, a country tha...

Hilary Benn | 478 c668 (Link to this contribution) In responding to the scale of the challenge facing us in the fight against dangerous climate change ...

Robert Key | 478 c668 (Link to this contribution) Looking to the future, does the Secretary of State agree that we will depend on advances in science,...

Daniel Kawczynski | 478 c670 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State is trying to paint a very rosy picture—that he is a friend of farmers—but is ...

Hilary Benn | 478 c666-7 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, To leave out from ““House”” to the end of the Question, and to add instead thereof:"“...

James Paice | 478 c658 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is entirely right. I am very much aware of that statement. Of course, it was the righ...

Baroness Browning | 478 c658 (Link to this contribution) Is my hon. Friend aware that a former permanent secretary at DEFRA volunteered the information to th...

James Paice | 478 c660 (Link to this contribution) I am very much aware of my hon. Friend's immense support as chairman of the all-party dairy farmers ...

Daniel Kawczynski | 478 c660 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is talking about regulations. I can tell him that certain agricultural companies in m...

James Paice | 478 c659-60 (Link to this contribution) I entirely agree with my hon. Friend and I will come on in a few moments to what needs to be done to...

Stephen O'Brien | 478 c658-9 (Link to this contribution) I am listening to my hon. Friend's excellent speech, which is putting our domestic production in con...

James Paice | 478 c661-2 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an important point. We all know that nitrates in water can be caused from run-o...

Stephen O'Brien | 478 c661 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for giving way to me a second time. One of his examples was the NVZ—...

James Paice | 478 c661 (Link to this contribution) What my hon. Friend says applies across the whole sphere of what we might call horticulture and fiel...

Peter Atkinson | 478 c660 (Link to this contribution) The pesticides directive would make it difficult to grow many vegetables, including potatoes, carrot...

Roger Williams | 478 c662 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the hon. Gentleman that we have to deal with the reservoir in wildlife. The question is...

Jonathan Shaw | 478 c662 (Link to this contribution) So that is a no, then.

James Paice | 478 c662 (Link to this contribution) I recommend that the hon. Gentleman read the report of the Select Committee of which he is a member....

David Curry | 478 c663 (Link to this contribution) I sensed that my hon. Friend was drawing to a conclusion when he used the word ““finally””. There ar...

James Paice | 478 c663 (Link to this contribution) No, it is not a no at all. I strongly support the Select Committee proposals, which demonstrate a wa...

James Paice | 478 c663 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my right hon. Friend, who will not be surprised to hear that there are a lot of iss...

Rob Marris | 478 c663 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman, who is being generous in giving way. He is right about UK food ...

James Paice | 478 c663 (Link to this contribution) That is what I have just described. I will come back to the issue of funding, which was mentioned by...

James Paice | 478 c664 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his support for some of the things I have said. The issue of...

Michael Jack | 478 c682-5 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted that my hon. Friend the Member for South-East Cambridgeshire (Mr. Paice) managed to s...

Speaker | 478 c685-6 (Link to this contribution) Order. Before I call the next speaker, may I say to the House that we have probably a little under h...

Roger Williams | 478 c677-8 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased that the hon. Gentleman has been able to clarify that point. He also talked about co-fi...

Ian Gibson | 478 c678-82 (Link to this contribution) I was inspired to contribute to the debate after a meeting held last week by Sir Ben Gill, who gathe...

Roger Williams | 478 c676-7 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady makes a good point. As we go on, in terms of global food security, we will have to loo...

James Paice | 478 c677 (Link to this contribution) I think that the phrase I used was a ““phased programme”” of transfer; that has been our approach to...

Kerry McCarthy | 478 c676 (Link to this contribution) Before the hon. Gentleman moves on from biofuels, let me say that although great emphasis is being p...

Roger Williams | 478 c676 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a good point. We seem to have been talking about labelling for as long as I...

David Leslie Taylor | 478 c676 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman asked Ministers to take a greater pride in British agriculture. Does he include i...

Roger Williams | 478 c674-6 (Link to this contribution) I thought that the Secretary of State was more encouraging towards British agriculture than I have h...

Jonathan Shaw | 478 c697-8 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State recently gave the go-ahead to a trial involving potatoes...

Bill Wiggin | 478 c694-5 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right, and it is a shame because we all try to support British food whe...

Jonathan Shaw | 478 c695-7 (Link to this contribution) This has been a good and welcome debate. We welcome the remarks from the hon. Member for South-East ...

Ian Taylor | 478 c697 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister accept a compliment on the trials of genetically modified food, which—if the trial...

Daniel Kawczynski | 478 c690-2 (Link to this contribution) I read the motion as focusing on our own food security here in the UK, although many others have spo...

Lord Benyon | 478 c688-90 (Link to this contribution) In the few minutes left, I will try to add something new to this debate. I always think that food s...

Robert Key | 478 c694 (Link to this contribution) On food labelling, is my hon. Friend aware of another fabrication being perpetrated on the British c...

Bill Wiggin | 478 c692-4 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State has said that the"““poorest can't get enough food””." He is right, but faili...

David Drew | 478 c686-8 (Link to this contribution) I shall take careful note of your remarks, Mr. Deputy Speaker, and be as brief as I possibly can, pa...

Hilary Benn | 478 c671 (Link to this contribution) I accept the point and in asking the question—others have raised it, and I was not attributing that ...

Hilary Benn | 478 c671 (Link to this contribution) In the end, consumers have a choice about what it is they wish to buy in those circumstances. Food s...

James Paice | 478 c671 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful to the Secretary of State, not least for the way in which he is addressing the su...

Bob Spink | 478 c672 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman is right to refer to the common agricultural problem as part of the—[Interr...

Hilary Benn | 478 c672 (Link to this contribution) I understand that the policy that the hon. Gentleman has put forward is that of the party that he no...

Michael Jack | 478 c671 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman is correct to put this matter into an international context. At the world f...

Hilary Benn | 478 c671-2 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman makes a very important point. When one looks at the international system, o...

Kerry McCarthy | 478 c671 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend has talked about self-sufficiency but he has not really put that in the environ...

Hilary Benn | 478 c672-3 (Link to this contribution) I happily say, since the right hon. Gentleman invites me to do so, that trade is indeed a good thing...

Rob Marris | 478 c673 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend give way?

Hilary Benn | 478 c673 (Link to this contribution) I will give way one final time in a minute, as it is my hon. Friend. What is striking about this de...

Roger Williams | 478 c674 (Link to this contribution) I draw the House's attention to my declaration of interests in the register. In July last year, I a...

Dan Rogerson | 478 c674 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a good point. I listened with interest to the Secretary of State, but I was dis...

David Curry | 478 c672 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State give way?

David Curry | 478 c672 (Link to this contribution) May I invite the right hon. Gentleman, in response to the question that came from behind him, to ass...

Hilary Benn | 478 c672 (Link to this contribution) I will—for the last occasion, seeing as it is the right hon. Gentleman.

Lord Robathan | 478 c698 (Link to this contribution) rose in his place and claimed to move, That the Question be now put. Question, That the Question be...

Hilary Benn | 478 c670-1 (Link to this contribution) Well, we are a free society and individuals and organisations are perfectly free, by those means, to...

David Drew | 478 c663 (Link to this contribution) Should they be allowed to?

Andrew George | 478 c664 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has been extremely generous in giving way. He has mentioned buyer power, as well ...

Rob Marris | 478 c673 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend probably knows what is coming. One of the big factors that we have already had ...

Hilary Benn | 478 c673-4 (Link to this contribution) I am happy to say that I agree completely with my hon. Friend. What is the best way to ensure our fa...

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