Parliamentary search - Food, Farming and the Environment

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Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

494 c480-530

Session

2008-09

Department

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Agriculture: Dairy Farmers
Tuesday, 30 June 2009
Written statements
House of Lords

Dairy Farmers of Britain
Tuesday, 30 June 2009
Written statements
House of Commons

Proceeding contributions

Hilary Benn | 494 c486 (Link to this contribution) I accept the hon. Gentleman's point about the facts of geography and remoteness in some of our farmi...

Hilary Benn | 494 c487 (Link to this contribution) I think that I shall be writing two letters as a result of the interventions by the hon. Members for...

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Hilary Benn | 494 c487 (Link to this contribution) Indeed, it is in the constituency of the hon. Member for Ryedale (Mr. Greenway). It is very impressi...

Baroness McIntosh of Pickering | 494 c487 (Link to this contribution) It is in Ryedale.

Hilary Benn | 494 c488 (Link to this contribution) I could not agree more with my hon. Friend. Open farm Sunday, which was the Sunday before last, is i...

Barry Sheerman | 494 c487-8 (Link to this contribution) We are all in favour of teaching children about a richer, more varied diet. However, does my right h...

Hilary Benn | 494 c488 (Link to this contribution) I must confess that I was not anticipating that I would be invited in this debate to include a refer...

Barry Sheerman | 494 c488 (Link to this contribution) Before he leaves this point, does my right hon. Friend agree that if we want to get people to go bac...

Lord Herbert of South Downs | 494 c489-90 (Link to this contribution) We have waited more than six years for a debate on farming in Government time, so this debate is ext...

Jim Fitzpatrick | 494 c527-8 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for that information, about which I was not aware. I have not re...

Jim Fitzpatrick | 494 c528-30 (Link to this contribution) I hear my hon. Friend's point. As he said, DCLG takes a lead on that, but our officials and Minister...

David Drew | 494 c528 (Link to this contribution) May I just say, in a comradely manner, that it would be helpful for smaller communities if there was...

James Paice | 494 c517-8 (Link to this contribution) I remind the House of my interests as registered. Although I obviously accept the apologies that th...

Stephen Crabb | 494 c516-7 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the opportunity to participate briefly in this extremely important debate. First, ...

James Paice | 494 c522-4 (Link to this contribution) I am not quite sure that I follow the hon. Gentleman. If he is saying that the Government should imp...

David Drew | 494 c522 (Link to this contribution) Surely the problem is now with the ombudsman. Some supermarkets are resistant and reluctant to agree...

James Paice | 494 c518-22 (Link to this contribution) Indeed, my hon. Friend says the same, but whatever. We had a good time—that is the important thing. ...

Lord Herbert of South Downs | 494 c518 (Link to this contribution) Mine too.

Jim Fitzpatrick | 494 c526-7 (Link to this contribution) All I can say at this point is that the matter was raised at the taskforce meeting last week. Progre...

James Paice | 494 c527 (Link to this contribution) Not only the Minister's immediate predecessor, but the one before supports a badger cull. Lord Rooke...

Jim Fitzpatrick | 494 c524-6 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to follow the hon. Member for South-East Cambridgeshire (Mr. Paice), who is highly re...

Lord Herbert of South Downs | 494 c526 (Link to this contribution) We are pleased to hear that no options have been ruled out. I hope that the Government will consider...

David Heath | 494 c500 (Link to this contribution) First, I ought to apologise on behalf of my hon. Friend the Member for Westmorland and Lonsdale (Tim...

Roger Williams | 494 c502 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend points to an important part of the problem, but the other part of the problem is that...

David Heath | 494 c500-2 (Link to this contribution) He did, and he was the only one who wrote to tell me so. Perhaps he has a better support system. Th...

Ian Cawsey | 494 c495-500 (Link to this contribution) I endorse that comment entirely. DEFRA is always chanting the mantra to farmers that diversification...

Michael Jack | 494 c507-16 (Link to this contribution) I compliment the hon. Member for Blaydon (Mr. Anderson) on a moving speech, in which he alerted us t...

David Heath | 494 c502-4 (Link to this contribution) There is a double loss, but I do not deplore the practice entirely, because a good co-operative incl...

David Drew | 494 c504 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry to intervene on the hon. Gentleman, but I am having a brief respite from the Equality Bil...

David Heath | 494 c505 (Link to this contribution) I do agree. They used to think of using the biggest possible hole in the ground, and now they can no...

David Anderson | 494 c505-7 (Link to this contribution) It has become quite normal for some people to believe that Labour Members have no interests in farmi...

Lord Herbert of South Downs | 494 c490-1 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend. There is a danger in allowing relatively fragile parts of the agricultu...

Stephen Crabb | 494 c490 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is making an important point, which I wholeheartedly support, about the need to rebal...

Lord Herbert of South Downs | 494 c490 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the hon. Gentleman that the decline in small local abattoirs has been one of the highly...

Lembit Opik | 494 c490 (Link to this contribution) I support the hon. Gentleman's observations about food security. Does he agree that it is contradict...

Ian Cawsey | 494 c494-5 (Link to this contribution) It is an honour to be the third speaker in the debate and to follow the two Front Benchers, both of ...

Roger Williams | 494 c495 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that many Members present in the Chamber have constituents who are in similar situations. ...

Roger Williams | 494 c491 (Link to this contribution) I am listening carefully to the hon. Gentleman's argument; he is engaging in thought processes that ...

Lord Herbert of South Downs | 494 c492-4 (Link to this contribution) I said earlier that I believed in the market, so the trend of agricultural policy towards farmers de...

Barry Sheerman | 494 c491 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that we have seen an amazing diversification of the agricultural produ...

Lord Herbert of South Downs | 494 c491 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the hon. Gentleman that there is increased interest in the local production of food, an...

Philip Hollobone | 494 c483 (Link to this contribution) I appreciate the Secretary of State's good intent. However, there is no use in trying to reskill an ...

Hilary Benn | 494 c482 (Link to this contribution) A document once published is a fact, and it cannot be un-published. It is important that we do produ...

James Paice | 494 c482 (Link to this contribution) Why is it on the website?

Hilary Benn | 494 c482 (Link to this contribution) The document was indeed published in 2005, and it says what it says, but the hon. Gentleman will als...

James Paice | 494 c481-2 (Link to this contribution) I would not want, in any way, to suggest that I do not accept the Secretary of State's sincerity on ...

David Anderson | 494 c481 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Secretary of State for his intervention last week on behalf of the Blaydon dairy in my c...

Hilary Benn | 494 c480-1 (Link to this contribution) "All of us" includes the other milk buyers, the regional development agencies and DEFRA. Last week, ...

Michael Jack | 494 c480 (Link to this contribution) I—like others, I am sure—have been moved by some of the interviews on "Farming Today", especially th...

Hilary Benn | 494 c480 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move,"That this House has considered the matter of food, farming and the environment." May...

Hilary Benn | 494 c484-5 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman raises an extremely important point. We have been discussing this issue with the ...

James Paice | 494 c484 (Link to this contribution) This is a genuine inquiry; I am not trying to make any particular point. The Secretary of State know...

Hilary Benn | 494 c485-6 (Link to this contribution) On the right hon. Gentleman's first question, in all honesty the answer is as soon as possible. Disc...

Lembit Opik | 494 c486 (Link to this contribution) Before the Secretary of State moves on from regulation, may I ask him whether he would be willing to...

Hilary Benn | 494 c483 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Gentleman will be aware, the dairy industry has become much more productive in recent ye...

Hilary Benn | 494 c483-4 (Link to this contribution) I will gladly do that. The hon. Gentleman should bear with me a little; I shall come to regulation a...

Alan Reid | 494 c483 (Link to this contribution) While we are on the subject of European directives, I should say that the directive causing great co...

Hilary Benn | 494 c484 (Link to this contribution) I would need to check, and then I will write to the hon. Gentleman to give him the up-to-date figure...

Roger Williams | 494 c484 (Link to this contribution) Has the Secretary of the State any estimate of the percentage of stock that has been vaccinated agai...

Lord Herbert of South Downs | 494 c500 (Link to this contribution) I feel sure that we all let the hon. Gentleman know that we were visiting his constituency, and I ap...

Hilary Benn | 494 c481 (Link to this contribution) I shall do my best to get hold of further information. In the end, if a management buy-out is to be ...

Roger Williams | 494 c486 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State has been generous in giving way. The falling stock system was introduced beca...

Michael Jack | 494 c485 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State mentioned the trials for vaccination to deal with bovine TB. Many people woul...

Subjects

Agriculture

Badgers

Environment protection

Food

Land use

Farmers

Sustainable development

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