Parliamentary search - Agriculture (South-West)

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

486 c163-84WH

Session

2008-09

Department

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Chamber / Committee

Westminster Hall

Proceeding contributions

James Gray | 486 c163-4WH (Link to this contribution) I do not believe that so-called speculators on the commodity farming markets—I used to be a managing...

David Heath | 486 c163WH (Link to this contribution) I welcome you to the Chair, Mr. Cummings, and thank you for finding the time to be here for our deba...

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David Heath | 486 c164WH (Link to this contribution) That is the hon. Gentleman's view, but it will not necessarily be shared by many in the agriculture ...

David Drew | 486 c164WH (Link to this contribution) I will pre-empt the hon. Member for St. Ives (Andrew George) and say that we need an ombudsman. An a...

Jeremy Browne | 486 c164-5WH (Link to this contribution) Will my hon. Friend touch on my concern that the middle organisations—those that buy the milk from t...

David Heath | 486 c164WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman will discover later in my comments—if he does not know already—that I agree with ...

David Heath | 486 c165WH (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend up to a point. We need to look at the whole chain of supply—I am trying ...

David Heath | 486 c166-7WH (Link to this contribution) Waiting for a vaccine for so many years is like waiting for Godot. The hon. Gentleman is right that ...

David Drew | 486 c166WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman will not be surprised that I am intervening on this subject. A badger vaccine wil...

David Heath | 486 c165-6WH (Link to this contribution) I entirely agree with my hon. Friend, who has done a lot of work on this matter and who has very muc...

Andrew George | 486 c165WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend will say something about his position on this later, but because of the decoupled wor...

David Heath | 486 c167WH (Link to this contribution) Badger wrestling is a minority sport in Somerset, but I do not doubt that it goes on in some places....

James Paice | 486 c167WH (Link to this contribution) Even if a vaccine becomes available next year, which I think is extremely optimistic, it will be inj...

Jeremy Browne | 486 c168WH (Link to this contribution) I endorse what my hon. Friend is saying. A few months ago, I visited a pig farm in Thornfalcon in my...

David Heath | 486 c167-8WH (Link to this contribution) The Minister has not been long in her post, so she will not have heard me say on a number of occasio...

Jane Kennedy | 486 c167WH (Link to this contribution) This is a point of great interest to me. I was listening carefully, but I may have missed it. Would ...

David Heath | 486 c167WH (Link to this contribution) I want to move on to nitrate vulnerable zones, but hon. Members want to intervene. I give way to the...

David Heath | 486 c168-9WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. Thornfalcon is only two or three miles from my constituency, and...

David Drew | 486 c169WH (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for giving way once more; he is being generous. Does he agree that one of...

David Heath | 486 c169-70WH (Link to this contribution) There is a lot in what the hon. Gentleman has said about community land, but I am not sure that I un...

James Gray | 486 c170-1WH (Link to this contribution) First, I congratulate the hon. Member for Somerton and Frome (Mr. Heath) on securing this extremely ...

James Gray | 486 c172-3WH (Link to this contribution) I notice, Mr. Cummings, that you are nodding. You are quite right in suggesting that we must focus e...

David Drew | 486 c173WH (Link to this contribution) indicated dissent.

Roger Williams | 486 c174-6WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes an important point, and perhaps we will have the opportunity to talk about ...

James Paice | 486 c177-8WH (Link to this contribution) I, like the hon. Member for Brecon and Radnorshire (Mr. Williams), remind the Chamber of my declarat...

James Gray | 486 c173-4WH (Link to this contribution) That was the recommendation of the cross-party Select Committee, which included the hon. Gentleman, ...

Roger Williams | 486 c174WH (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to take part in this debate. Let me start by putting on the record my interes...

James Paice | 486 c174WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is statistically correct to say that there are more agricultural smallholdings, b...

James Gray | 486 c178WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. Professor King's thesis about the over-population of badgers is ...

James Paice | 486 c178-9WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend. I must move on to other issues, but before I do, I shall make one o...

Jane Kennedy | 486 c180-2WH (Link to this contribution) I grew up not in the south-west, but in God's own country in the north-east. I lived in a small vill...

David Heath | 486 c179WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right; the issue is about the power of the producer. However, that ...

James Paice | 486 c179-80WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. Not every dairy producer likes the comment that I am about t...

David Heath | 486 c182WH (Link to this contribution) I am glad that the right hon. Lady is speaking directly to farmers who are affected. May I suggest t...

Jane Kennedy | 486 c182-4WH (Link to this contribution) I am interested in that invitation and shall ask my officials to get details about the show. I hope ...

Speaker | 486 c184WH (Link to this contribution) Order. We must move on to the next debate.

Subjects

Agriculture

Farms

Income

Prices

Milk

Bovine tuberculosis

Pigmeat

Nitrate vulnerable zones

South West

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