Parliamentary search - Food Industry Competitiveness

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

504 c462-86

Session

2009-10

Department

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Proceeding contributions

Philip Davies | 504 c467 (Link to this contribution) Hear, hear!

James Paice | 504 c467 (Link to this contribution) I have never known my hon. Friend to do anything amateurishly, and I will come to the issue of food ...

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Andrew Murrison | 504 c467 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend knows of my interest, albeit amateur, in the pork industry. Does he agree that for co...

Andrew George | 504 c468 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman says "albeit belated", but he is quoted as saying this at his party's conference ...

James Paice | 504 c468 (Link to this contribution) I know that at least one of my Back-Bench colleagues takes that view. My hon. Friend is an aficionad...

Eric Martlew | 504 c469 (Link to this contribution) Can the hon. Gentleman confirm that Conservative policy is to cull badgers in England?

Philip Hollobone | 504 c468-9 (Link to this contribution) I am most grateful to my hon. Friend for mentioning NVZs and the increased capital costs faced by fa...

James Paice | 504 c469 (Link to this contribution) I obviously do not have time to retail a long list. We have two debates on the dairy industry in the...

James Paice | 504 c469-70 (Link to this contribution) Conservative policy is to attack this disease with a comprehensive strategy using all available meas...

Andrew George | 504 c470-1 (Link to this contribution) Like the hon. Member for South-East Cambridgeshire (Mr. Paice), I am pleased that the Government hav...

Speaker | 504 c470 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Gentleman's time is up.

Philip Davies | 504 c471 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is working on the premise that there are big, horrible, nasty supermarkets screwi...

Andrew Murrison | 504 c472 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that there might be some benefits for the British food industry in, fo...

Andrew George | 504 c471-2 (Link to this contribution) That is a complete misapprehension and fails to understand how the market works. The Competition Com...

Andrew George | 504 c472 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for that extremely helpful intervention. One of the knock-on effects of the proposals ...

Alistair Burt | 504 c472-3 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to have the chance to speak in this debate. I echo the comments made by my hon. Frien...

Andrew George | 504 c466 (Link to this contribution) In the circumstances, why are the Government proceeding with a further period of consultation? Offic...

Jim Fitzpatrick | 504 c465-6 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for your explanation, Madam Deputy Speaker. I can tell the hon. Gentleman that I have ...

Jim Fitzpatrick | 504 c466 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a fair point about the impatience of many of us regarding progress on this ...

Speaker | 504 c465 (Link to this contribution) I inform the hon. Gentleman that the Minister does not get time for each intervention in these debat...

Shailesh Vara | 504 c467 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that one advantage of having domestic suppliers is that it guarantees the ...

James Paice | 504 c467 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a very important point. Local sourcing guarantees provenance. Of course, it doe...

Philip Davies | 504 c480 (Link to this contribution) I am going to press on, as I want to allow the hon. Gentleman time to elaborate his views later. I ...

Eric Martlew | 504 c480 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman's language about my constituents being stupid is offensive, Madam Deputy Speaker,...

Philip Davies | 504 c480 (Link to this contribution) I was not saying that the hon. Gentleman's constituents are stupid; I was saying that he seems to th...

Philip Davies | 504 c481 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. We have this ludicrous situation in which the parties are trying...

Christopher Chope | 504 c480-1 (Link to this contribution) As always, my hon. Friend is putting forward a brilliant analysis. Does he accept that in dealing wi...

Philip Davies | 504 c479-80 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman may think that all of his constituents are stupid and cannot tell the difference ...

Eric Martlew | 504 c479 (Link to this contribution) I worked in the food industry for more than 20 years. If the hon. Gentleman is correct, why do we ge...

Philip Davies | 504 c482 (Link to this contribution) I am genuinely sorry that my hon. Friend has come to that conclusion. What he is proposing is an omb...

Philip Davies | 504 c482-3 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman may take the view that if he reads something in a report, he must agree with it. ...

Andrew Pelling | 504 c483-5 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Member for Shipley (Philip Davies) for giving me seven—I want to give the ...

Jim Fitzpatrick | 504 c485-6 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Member for Croydon, Central (Mr. Pelling) for allowing me time to respond ...

Andrew Pelling | 504 c481 (Link to this contribution) I am enjoying the hon. Gentleman's speech. Is there not a danger with this new scheme of failing to ...

Philip Davies | 504 c481 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right. I was going to come on to that point, but I shall touch on it now. The ...

James Paice | 504 c482 (Link to this contribution) I hesitate to intervene on my hon. Friend—clearly, we are not going to agree on all fronts—but I ent...

Philip Davies | 504 c477-8 (Link to this contribution) I will try to be brief. I know that the hon. Member for Croydon, Central (Mr. Pelling) wants to spea...

Jim Fitzpatrick | 504 c478 (Link to this contribution) There have been two intensive investigations involving examinations and consultations by the Competi...

Andrew George | 504 c476 (Link to this contribution) One point that I did not have time to expand upon was about that very relationship. The proposal for...

Alistair Burt | 504 c476-7 (Link to this contribution) Yes, the hon. Gentleman makes a fair point. Part of the problem is that this process has had such a ...

James Paice | 504 c474 (Link to this contribution) I just want to clarify that the company to which I was referring in my speech was indeed Biogen, bec...

Alistair Burt | 504 c474-6 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend, in what might be the sting in the tail of this crafted speech, for ...

Alistair Burt | 504 c473-4 (Link to this contribution) The Minister has absolutely said what needs to be said. As Peter Kendall's Member of Parliament, I a...

Jim Fitzpatrick | 504 c473 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to put on the record my personal commendation of Mr. Kendall and to endorse the sentime...

Andrew Pelling | 504 c479 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Philip Davies | 504 c479 (Link to this contribution) I will.

Andrew Pelling | 504 c479 (Link to this contribution) Let us do this properly. Would it not be possible to argue that supermarkets go for a large market s...

Philip Davies | 504 c479 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman will allow me to continue, I will come to the details in a moment. I want to a...

Philip Davies | 504 c478 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman will have an opportunity to speak, if he calms down. If he does not, I might have...

Speaker | 504 c478 (Link to this contribution) Order. May we have the debate conducted in an orderly manner?

Philip Davies | 504 c479 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I am grateful for your support.

Philip Davies | 504 c478 (Link to this contribution) I do not doubt that there is another side to the argument; that is the side that I am trying to give...

Andrew Pelling | 504 c478 (Link to this contribution) It has a big market share.

David Drew | 504 c462 (Link to this contribution) With that in mind, when will the Government bring forward legislation on the supermarket ombudsman o...

Jim Fitzpatrick | 504 c464 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a very good point. It is important that the retail sector has good relation...

Philip Davies | 504 c464 (Link to this contribution) Does the Minister not accept that the best ombudsman is the customer? I have no idea about the Minis...

Jim Fitzpatrick | 504 c462 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his question. If he will bear with me, I will come to that when ...

Jim Fitzpatrick | 504 c463-4 (Link to this contribution) As my hon. Friend knows, that is a matter primarily for the Department for Business, Innovation and ...

Lynne Jones | 504 c462-3 (Link to this contribution) In advance of my Adjournment debate on Tuesday on Cadbury, and because I have to leave for a constit...

Jim Fitzpatrick | 504 c462 (Link to this contribution) I will give way to my hon. Friend, but I am limited to 10 minutes and I want to get my remarks acros...

Jim Fitzpatrick | 504 c464-5 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a very important point. Processors and producers needed certainty that the ...

Jim Fitzpatrick | 504 c464 (Link to this contribution) I give way to the hon. Member for Arundel and South Downs (Nick Herbert), who leads for the Oppositi...

Lord Herbert of South Downs | 504 c464 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister. Does he agree that the Competition Commission was clear that the abse...

Jim Fitzpatrick | 504 c465 (Link to this contribution) I am wasting time explaining this, but if I can give way—

Philip Hollobone | 504 c465 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. The Minister is making a very interesting speech that we ...

Andrew George | 504 c482 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a decent point with regard to the relationship between larger suppliers and...

James Paice | 504 c468 (Link to this contribution) That is absolutely astonishing nonsense. We have done exactly what I said at that time. We have said...

James Paice | 504 c466-7 (Link to this contribution) May I remind the House of my interests, which are declared in the register? I welcome the fact that...

Jim Fitzpatrick | 504 c462 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, "That this House has considered the matter of food industry competitiveness." Let me...

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Codes of practice

Agriculture

Industry

Food

Labelling

Food supply

Standards

Trade competitiveness

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