Parliamentary search - Dairy Farming

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

504 c257-82WH

Session

2009-10

Department

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Chamber / Committee

Westminster Hall

Proceeding contributions

Stephen Crabb | 504 c258-9WH (Link to this contribution) There is no question but that one of the things that have eroded profitability in the dairy sector i...

Stephen Crabb | 504 c258WH (Link to this contribution) I agree with the general thrust of the intervention. It is a good thing to be supporting local food,...

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David Simpson | 504 c258WH (Link to this contribution) I welcome you to the Chair, Dr. McCrea, and I congratulate the hon. Member for Preseli Pembrokeshire...

Stephen Crabb | 504 c257WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman, who is a doughty campaigner on behalf of the dairy sector in the UK, has summari...

Lembit Opik | 504 c258WH (Link to this contribution) I, too, congratulate the very hard-working hon. Gentleman on achieving this debate. Adding to what t...

Stephen Crabb | 504 c257WH (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Dr. McCrea. It is good to see so many hon. Member...

Lindsay Hoyle | 504 c257WH (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman not only for initiating a very important debate, but for coming back to e...

Lembit Opik | 504 c260WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman mentioned the collapse of Dairy Farmers of Britain. Did he, like me, experience t...

Stephen Crabb | 504 c260-1WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right. Some troubling questions remain to be answered about Dairy Farmers of B...

David Simpson | 504 c261WH (Link to this contribution) There is a school of thought in the industry that believes that one way forward would be completely ...

Stephen Crabb | 504 c261-2WH (Link to this contribution) Most of the farmers I speak to in my constituency say that, ideally, they would not want to be in th...

Oliver Letwin | 504 c259WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has touched on both points to which I hoped to draw his attention. Does he agree that...

Stephen Crabb | 504 c259WH (Link to this contribution) I agree; that is a key point. I am pleased that the Government have finally responded positively to ...

Lindsay Hoyle | 504 c259-60WH (Link to this contribution) One supermarket that the hon. Gentleman did not mention is Booths Supermarkets in the north-west, wh...

Stephen Crabb | 504 c260WH (Link to this contribution) That is an excellent suggestion and I hope that Asda responds positively to the recommendation that ...

Oliver Letwin | 504 c259WH (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that for those of us who have dairy farmers in TB hotspots, that has becom...

Stephen Crabb | 504 c259WH (Link to this contribution) I agree absolutely. I shall make some comments about bovine TB later, but it is clear that that dise...

Mark Williams | 504 c270-1WH (Link to this contribution) I agree. As the hon. Gentleman said, it is the scale of those contracts rather than the principle it...

Stephen Crabb | 504 c270WH (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that the dedicated milk contracts that all the major retailers have ar...

Speaker | 504 c273WH (Link to this contribution) I will be commencing with the speeches from the Front-Bench spokesmen at approximately 10.30 am, but...

Daniel Kawczynski | 504 c271-3WH (Link to this contribution) I pay tribute to my hon. Friend the Member for Preseli Pembrokeshire (Mr. Crabb) for securing the de...

Mark Williams | 504 c269-70WH (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for raising that matter. The hon. Member for Preseli Pembrokeshire made a fai...

Lord Benyon | 504 c277-80WH (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Dr. McCrea. Before I say any more, I refer ...

Tim Farron | 504 c274-5WH (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Dr. McCrea. I pay tribute to the hon. Membe...

Roger Williams | 504 c273-4WH (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Dr. McCrea. I will try to be brief. Much has already been said about the plight of dairy...

Tim Farron | 504 c275-7WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes an important point. Undoubtedly, we need to protect our dairy farmers from ...

William Cash | 504 c275WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman and I took part in a debate initiated by the European Scrutiny Committee only a c...

Jim Fitzpatrick | 504 c282WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman will have to forgive me, as I have one minute left and will not get through my po...

Jim Fitzpatrick | 504 c280-2WH (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to see you preside over the debate today, Dr. McCrea. I begin by congratulating the...

Oliver Letwin | 504 c262WH (Link to this contribution) That touches on the vital question of decoupling subsidies from production in other EU countries. Do...

Mark Pritchard | 504 c263WH (Link to this contribution) I apologise, Dr. McCrea, for my late arrival. This is an important debate and my hon. Friend touches...

Stephen Crabb | 504 c262-3WH (Link to this contribution) Yes. My right hon. Friend makes his point very effectively. There can be little doubt that the fluc...

Jim Fitzpatrick | 504 c263WH (Link to this contribution) I shall say more about TB and do not want to take up the hon. Gentleman's time, but in response to t...

Stephen Crabb | 504 c263WH (Link to this contribution) I give way to the Minister.

Dan Rogerson | 504 c263-4WH (Link to this contribution) I pay tribute to the hon. Gentleman for securing the debate and for his work on behalf of the dairy ...

Stephen Crabb | 504 c263WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for that and look forward with interest to the Minister's reply to the debate; but the...

Daniel Kawczynski | 504 c264WH (Link to this contribution) To back up my hon. Friend, with reference to what the Minister said, the Ministry of Agriculture in ...

Stephen Crabb | 504 c264WH (Link to this contribution) That is a useful and helpful intervention.

Stephen Crabb | 504 c264-5WH (Link to this contribution) That is also a useful intervention. Sir David King, the former chief scientific adviser, was quoted...

David Drew | 504 c266-7WH (Link to this contribution) I accept what the hon. Gentleman says. However, I agreed to the report with gritted teeth; people kn...

Dan Rogerson | 504 c266WH (Link to this contribution) As a fellow member of the Select Committee, I remember those debates. I also recall that our report ...

David Drew | 504 c265-6WH (Link to this contribution) I shall be as brief as I can, Dr. McCrea, partly because so many hon. Members want to speak, and als...

Speaker | 504 c265WH (Link to this contribution) Several hon. Members want to speak in the debate and I shall try to allow as many as possible to do ...

Jim Fitzpatrick | 504 c269WH (Link to this contribution) We are currently consulting on how to distribute the €29.26 million, which is the UK's share of that...

Mark Williams | 504 c268-9WH (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Dr. McCrea. I pay tribute to my constituency neig...

David Drew | 504 c267-8WH (Link to this contribution) On the second point, my hon. Friend is talking about another mad EU regulation, but no one takes a b...

Lindsay Hoyle | 504 c267WH (Link to this contribution) Because of my hon. Friend's knowledge, I invite him to comment on two quick points. The other thing ...

Alan Reid | 504 c269WH (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend that the ombudsman is vital. Does he not think that the Government shoul...

Mark Williams | 504 c269WH (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for that. I am also taking consultation from the Welsh Assembly Government. The...

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Dairy farming

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Livestock industry

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