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Sustainable Livestock Bill

Debate on bills on Friday, 12 November 2010, in the House of Commons, led by Robert Flello. The answering member was James Paice.
Second reading. Closure motion. Agreed to on division (62 to 29). Deputy Speaker declared that the Question was not decided in the affirmative because fewer than 100 Members voted in the majority in support of the motion. Debate adjourned. To be resumed on 10 June 2011.
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
518 c549-614 
Session
2010-12
Department
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Legislative stage
Second reading
Procedure
Closure motions
Private members' bills proceedings
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Related items
Sustainable Livestock Bill. Explanatory notes also published (Bill 5-EN).
Wednesday, 30 June 2010
Bills
House of Commons
Proceeding contributions
David Nuttall | 518 c589 (Link to this contribution) Is it not the case that the Secretary of State could do precisely that without this Bill?
William Bain | 518 c589 (Link to this contribution) It would be more effective if the Secretary of State could bat for Britain in the EU Council and dem...

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David Nuttall | 518 c588 (Link to this contribution) In fact, subsection (1) requires the publication of the review of progress to be much more frequent ...
William Bain | 518 c588 (Link to this contribution) The key point for the hon. Gentleman to consider is that the Bill would not introduce any order-maki...
Christopher Chope | 518 c586 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman will know that the Bill applies only to England and Wales. Does he feel in any wa...
William Bain | 518 c586-8 (Link to this contribution) Not at all, because I have farmland at the northernmost tip of my constituency, so I am aware of pre...
Sarah Newton | 518 c585 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for his kind words about what is, indeed, a very beautiful constituency. It i...
William Bain | 518 c585-6 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Stoke-on-Trent South (Robert Flello) on speaking with s...
Kerry McCarthy | 518 c595 (Link to this contribution) Could the Minister tell the House what conversations have taken place on this issue between DEFRA Mi...
Christopher Chope | 518 c594 (Link to this contribution) Has my hon. Friend seen the report ““Pastures New—A Sustainable Future for Meat and Dairy Farming””,...
James Paice | 518 c594 (Link to this contribution) I do not think I have actually seen that figure, but if it is to be taken as the correct figure, tha...
Jane Ellison | 518 c594 (Link to this contribution) I have attended this morning's debate with a genuinely open mind, in accordance with the commitment ...
James Paice | 518 c594-5 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for that question, part of which I will come to in a few moments. First, let me say th...
Christopher Chope | 518 c591 (Link to this contribution) As my hon. Friend said, there is a public misconception about the link between soya imports and larg...
James Paice | 518 c591 (Link to this contribution) It is not for the Government, directly, to say that one form of production is right and that another...
David Nuttall | 518 c591 (Link to this contribution) The best way of keeping consumers informed is, of course, through honesty in food labelling. I under...
James Paice | 518 c591-4 (Link to this contribution) I will indeed, but perhaps my hon. Friend will bear with me until I get to that point in my remarks....
Simon Hart | 518 c581-2 (Link to this contribution) I do, and we sometimes forget that there is a strong social and economic ingredient in that definiti...
Sarah Newton | 518 c580 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that much of the subsidy to farmers that the hon. Member for Bristol East ...
Simon Hart | 518 c580-1 (Link to this contribution) I do, and that is a very visible shift in subsidy policy that has taken place over the past 10 or 20...
Tony Baldry | 518 c577-9 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member for North Antrim raised the very sound point that if the Bill becomes law, it may we...
Simon Hart | 518 c579 (Link to this contribution) May I apologise for chancing my arm with my earlier intervention, Mr Deputy Speaker? I shall have to...
Kerry McCarthy | 518 c579-80 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman accept that there is a trade-off here, given that the UK agriculture industr...
David Nuttall | 518 c579 (Link to this contribution) When my hon. Friend has had discussions with farmers in his constituency, have any of them ever expr...
Jacob Rees-Mogg | 518 c585 (Link to this contribution) I have listened with enormous interest to my hon. Friend. Does she agree that it would be unsuitable...
Sarah Newton | 518 c585 (Link to this contribution) I am happy to agree with my hon. Friend, and that point was ably demonstrated by my hon. Friend the ...
Christopher Chope | 518 c585 (Link to this contribution) As my hon. Friend knows, I spent quite a lot of my childhood in the wonderful constituency that she ...
Steve McCabe | 518 c582 (Link to this contribution) As I listen to the hon. Gentleman, I wonder whether he is talking about the same Bill as I have been...
Sarah Newton | 518 c584-5 (Link to this contribution) I will be happy to do so, because I have a great interest in locally produced food and organic food,...
Ian Jnr Paisley | 518 c572 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady can take that up with the Minister if she wishes. However, it is unrealistic to claim ...
Simon Hart | 518 c572 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that milking dairy cows is only one part of the dairy industry? Farmer...
Christopher Chope | 518 c603 (Link to this contribution) I am most encouraged by my hon. Friend's response. I am glad that he recognises that it would be a m...
James Paice | 518 c603 (Link to this contribution) If I did not make it clear at the time to my hon. Friend, I should like to clarify the Government's ...
Christopher Chope | 518 c602-3 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is usurping the position that should be occupied by his hon. Friend the Member fo...
Stephen Pound | 518 c602 (Link to this contribution) On Fridays the tradition is that, when a speaker lacks the confidence to test their argument in the ...
Jacob Rees-Mogg | 518 c602 (Link to this contribution) I know that one of most important aspects of agriculture policy is to ensure food security, and I wo...
Christopher Chope | 518 c601-2 (Link to this contribution) I hope that that is right. Certainly, that is a much more commonsensical approach than adopting the ...
Christopher Chope | 518 c601 (Link to this contribution) My information is on responsible soy, but perhaps there is more than one round table. I downloaded i...
David Nuttall | 518 c601 (Link to this contribution) Those are interesting statistics. If we carry on at that rate of progress, it will not be too many y...
David Nuttall | 518 c598 (Link to this contribution) On the point about the guest list, bearing in mind the confusion that arose this morning about the e...
James Paice | 518 c598 (Link to this contribution) Just let me finish this point. I am sure that those who read this debate will take that on board, an...
Christopher Chope | 518 c599-601 (Link to this contribution) I do not know whether the promoter of the Bill, the hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent South (Robert Fle...
James Paice | 518 c598-9 (Link to this contribution) I have just answered that point. I do not want to control the guest list, but I certainly think that...
James Paice | 518 c597 (Link to this contribution) The honest answer is no, but the costs would be considerable. In this time of major economic constra...
David Nuttall | 518 c598 (Link to this contribution) Will my hon. Friend give way on that point?
James Paice | 518 c598 (Link to this contribution) As I said just now, I would hope that the interested parties would organise the conference; I do not...
James Paice | 518 c595-7 (Link to this contribution) Obviously, I cannot comment on what may have taken place in the Chamber yesterday, but I assure the ...
David Nuttall | 518 c597 (Link to this contribution) Has the Department assessed the likely cost of trying to enforce the Bill's provisions?
Speaker | 518 c612 (Link to this contribution) Order. We are now going very wide of the Bill. Would the hon. Gentleman bring his comments back to t...
David Nuttall | 518 c611 (Link to this contribution) I can understand it being necessary to reduce food waste, but what does my hon. Friend think could p...
Jacob Rees-Mogg | 518 c610-1 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. I would not, of course, wish to repeat the poem, but I think it remind...
Jacob Rees-Mogg | 518 c613-4 (Link to this contribution) I appreciate that sedentary comment of outrage from my hon. Friend. That is one of the issues, if th...
Jacob Rees-Mogg | 518 c612-3 (Link to this contribution) I was talking about subsidies and how we cannot do what the Bill says because the French will not le...
Speaker | 518 c609-10 (Link to this contribution) I will bring the hon. Lady's comments to the attention of Mr Speaker on Monday morning. I know how f...
Joan Walley | 518 c609 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr Evans. I have come here today to support the Bill promoted by my hon. Friend...
Jacob Rees-Mogg | 518 c609 (Link to this contribution) When I was a child, I had a mug that detailed the wonderful and famous lines:"““Let the wealthy and ...
Jacob Rees-Mogg | 518 c614 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for another invaluable contribution to the debate. I have indeed seen the NFU...
Jacob Rees-Mogg | 518 c603-4 (Link to this contribution) The point about food waste needs to be looked into very thoroughly. I seem to remember that the last...
Christopher Chope | 518 c604 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend rightly brings a cautionary tale to bear on this. My parents used to keep two pigs—on...
Ian Jnr Paisley | 518 c604 (Link to this contribution) Do you think they'd swallow your speech?
Christopher Chope | 518 c604 (Link to this contribution) I was pausing to take breath, so I failed to hear what the hon. Gentleman said. However, I am sure t...
Robert Flello | 518 c605 (Link to this contribution) claimed to move the closure (Standing Order No. 36). Question put forthwith, That the Question be n...
Speaker | 518 c608 (Link to this contribution) Order. Mr Chope, could you restrict your comments to the Bill that we are discussing now? Let us not...
Christopher Chope | 518 c608 (Link to this contribution) Mr Deputy Speaker, I am not sure whether I am in a position to be able to say that the hon. Lady can...
Robert Flello | 518 c609 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has a tremendous reputation in the House, both for the ability to talk and for hi...
Christopher Chope | 518 c609 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for that, but it makes it all the more disappointing that the Bi...
Christopher Chope | 518 c608 (Link to this contribution) I cannot speak for the promoter of the Bill, and unless he seeks to intervene to clarify that matter...
Speaker | 518 c608 (Link to this contribution) It is up to the hon. Lady whether she wishes to participate in the debate on this Bill or not. Pleas...
Christopher Chope | 518 c608 (Link to this contribution) Mr Deputy Speaker, I have made the offer—made the point—and as you rightly say, it is a matter for t...
Christopher Chope | 518 c606-7 (Link to this contribution) Clause 1(3) has the requirement that"““The Secretary of State must ensure that policies in relation ...
David Nuttall | 518 c555 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a good point. There is a danger that the Secretary of State would be in a cleft...
James Paice | 518 c589-91 (Link to this contribution) May I start by reminding the House of my interests, as declared in the register? I congratulate the...
Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park | 518 c565 (Link to this contribution) Given what has been said about the Bill by a number of Members, including my hon. Friend, does he ac...
Christopher Chope | 518 c602 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend, as so often, puts his finger on a really good point, and it highlights the Bill's in...
Ian Jnr Paisley | 518 c597 (Link to this contribution) The conference proposal is valuable, but will the Minister ensure that it will be open to the devolv...
David Nuttall | 518 c614 (Link to this contribution) On the question of subsidies, is my hon. Friend aware of the NFU's view that in order to encourage a...
David Nuttall | 518 c553 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Carmarthen and wherever for that good point. The people most c...
David Nuttall | 518 c559 (Link to this contribution) Or 6,000. That is the crucial point.
William Bain | 518 c588 (Link to this contribution) I will make a little progress and then give way. Clause 1(3) would ensure that the UK, in its discu...
Simon Hart | 518 c579 (Link to this contribution) I think that my hon. Friend probably knows the answer to that question, which is, of course, no—but ...
Speaker | 518 c572 (Link to this contribution) Order. We are in danger of going into a general debate. This is not a general debate—we must stick t...
Jacob Rees-Mogg | 518 c611-2 (Link to this contribution) Sustainable methods of dealing with food waste conjures up all sorts of nasty thoughts. In the 19th ...
David Nuttall | 518 c608 (Link to this contribution) I am concerned that section 1(4) refers only to the proportion of meat consumed. Would my hon. Frien...
Ian Jnr Paisley | 518 c551 (Link to this contribution) Clause 1(2)(e) refers to"““changing the subsidies available to…support…farmers to promote sustainabl...
Henry Smith | 518 c581 (Link to this contribution) I agree that sustainability is a much-abused word, but does my hon. Friend not agree that sustainabi...
Simon Hart | 518 c582 (Link to this contribution) I think we are reading the same Bill, but it strikes me as odd that, of 1,000 livestock producers in...
Steve McCabe | 518 c582 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman should have explained the Bill to them.
David Nuttall | 518 c560 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a very good point. There are a number of apparent contradictions in the idea th...
Christopher Chope | 518 c560 (Link to this contribution) Taking up the Minister's point about pigs, does my hon. Friend agree that there is another inherent ...
Christopher Chope | 518 c560 (Link to this contribution) Before my hon. Friend moves on, will he give way?
David Nuttall | 518 c560 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely not. That is, indeed, one of the glories, and as someone who has on many occasions enjoye...
Oliver Heald | 518 c560 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is being very generous with his time, but is he really saying that we should clear th...
Martin Horwood | 518 c559 (Link to this contribution) One local farmer in Gloucestershire told me of one very specific disadvantage: such practices would ...
David Nuttall | 518 c559 (Link to this contribution) That is a comment from one individual, and individuals will have their own views, but I suspect that...
Simon Hart | 518 c559 (Link to this contribution) I hesitate to interrupt my hon. Friend again so early in his speech, but is he aware of any peer-rev...
David Nuttall | 518 c559 (Link to this contribution) The National Farmers Union would say that there is no disadvantage and no evidence that larger-scale...
Oliver Heald | 518 c559 (Link to this contribution) I fully appreciate that there is no harm at all in using sheds, but is there not an issue of scale? ...
David Nuttall | 518 c559 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a reasonable point, and I accept that, in an ideal world, that might be the cas...
David Nuttall | 518 c559 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an interesting point, but if we accept that it is okay for, for the sake of arg...
Andrew Turner | 518 c559 (Link to this contribution) No, that is not the crucial point. The crucial point is that the cattle would be kept inside year-ro...
David Nuttall | 518 c559 (Link to this contribution) Any farmer will tell us that an unhappy—if we can use that term—animal does not produce milk.
James Paice | 518 c558 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for allowing me to intervene before I make my main remarks. Many com...
David Nuttall | 518 c559 (Link to this contribution) The Minister makes a good point, which I shall come on to later.
Oliver Heald | 518 c559 (Link to this contribution) But does not my hon. Friend think it right that we should have green fields and farmers tending thei...
David Nuttall | 518 c558 (Link to this contribution) There is a danger of that happening, and I thank my hon. Friend for that point. The Bill may make th...
Andrew Turner | 518 c558 (Link to this contribution) Farmers have looked after the fields for generations, but does my hon. Friend agree that the problem...
David Nuttall | 518 c558 (Link to this contribution) Over the centuries, farming has been sustained in this country by the farmer and the countryside has...
Speaker | 518 c558 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Member for Bury North (Mr Nuttall) should respond to that very graceful intervention...
Jacob Rees-Mogg | 518 c558 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is enormously generous in giving way. Is it not true to say that the glories of Engla...
David Nuttall | 518 c558 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a very good point. My hon. Friend has more farmers in his constituency than mos...
Lord Johnson of Marylebone | 518 c558 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that my hon. Friend will appreciate the extent to which our farmed landscape, the visual b...
David Nuttall | 518 c557-8 (Link to this contribution) No, absolutely not. It is a very tiny matter really. I want to deal specifically with clause 1. Sub...
David Nuttall | 518 c556 (Link to this contribution) It does indeed, and I will make mention of them later. I am not sure whether the Bill's promoter con...
Speaker | 518 c556-7 (Link to this contribution) Order. For the avoidance of doubt, I trust that the hon. Gentleman has no intention of offering the ...
David Nuttall | 518 c556 (Link to this contribution) As my hon. Friend knows, I entirely support the idea that the House should be sovereign, and if ther...
Mark Reckless | 518 c555-6 (Link to this contribution) I am cautious about contradicting my hon. Friend the Member for North East Somerset (Jacob Rees-Mogg...
David Nuttall | 518 c556 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Speaker. No, I mentioned the European Union, but it was brought up by others and I si...
Speaker | 518 c556 (Link to this contribution) Order. I am extremely grateful to the hon. Gentleman for what he has just said. It is very wise that...
Mark Reckless | 518 c555 (Link to this contribution) Is not a further issue with clause 1(4)—potentially an advantage, rather than a problem—that it migh...
David Nuttall | 518 c555 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a good point. That is a real danger arising from the Bill. We would finish up w...
Jacob Rees-Mogg | 518 c555 (Link to this contribution) Further to that point, it would be illegal and would be struck down by the courts if we were to disc...
Julian Smith | 518 c556 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend may be about to comment on the coalition agreement, which already contains some very ...
David Nuttall | 518 c555 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes an extremely important point, which I will deal with. The clause is, in man...
Simon Hart | 518 c580 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I do agree. That is perfectly reasonable and the evidence clearly shows that nobody in agricult...
Simon Hart | 518 c582-3 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman wish to intervene? I suspect that the sponsors of the Bill are responsible f...
Sarah Newton | 518 c583-4 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker, for calling me to speak in such an important debate. I congratulate th...
David Nuttall | 518 c584 (Link to this contribution) Will my hon. Friend expand on her point about organic farming in Italy being carried out indoors? Is...
Michael Ellis | 518 c568 (Link to this contribution) I presume that my hon. Friend is moving to the concluding parts of the first stage of his address, b...
David Nuttall | 518 c568 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend raises an interesting point, which I must admit I had not noted. It is indeed remarka...
Christopher Chope | 518 c568 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend mentioned the fact that the interpretation clause refers to"““the United Kingdom and ...
David Nuttall | 518 c568 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. Clause 4 makes provision for the costs of the Bill to be met by ...
Martin Horwood | 518 c570 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman may not know that the Climate Change Act relates to emissions in this country and...
Ian Jnr Paisley | 518 c569-70 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent South (Robert Flello) on being so successful in th...
David Nuttall | 518 c569 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for that point. What he says would be clearly be the case. If we had to start...
Jacob Rees-Mogg | 518 c569 (Link to this contribution) Has my hon. Friend, with the help of my hon. Friend the Member for Christchurch (Mr Chope), not poin...
David Nuttall | 518 c568-9 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend raises an interesting point. The Bill requires the Secretary of State to ensure that ...
Speaker | 518 c568 (Link to this contribution) Order. One point is enough, and I am sure Gibraltar will not be affected.
Ian Jnr Paisley | 518 c572 (Link to this contribution) I accept that those two applications have been made—two applications in a massive industry. The plan...
Kerry McCarthy | 518 c572 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman know that there is currently a planning application for a dairy farm in Linc...
Kerry McCarthy | 518 c572 (Link to this contribution) I am interested in the Minister's response to that point because when I criticised the move towards ...
Ian Jnr Paisley | 518 c570-2 (Link to this contribution) I accept that point and I will discuss it when I deal with that aspect of the Bill, which, I believe...
David Nuttall | 518 c577 (Link to this contribution) On that point about poorer people being adversely affected, I think there is a real risk inherent in...
Tony Baldry | 518 c573-7 (Link to this contribution) At the outset of his commendable comments, the hon. Member for North Antrim (Ian Paisley) made the v...
Ian Jnr Paisley | 518 c572-3 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. We should get back to the point made by the Minister: the Bill will no...
David Nuttall | 518 c560-1 (Link to this contribution) I agree, and I am not suggesting that economics should be the only criterion by which farming is jud...
Lord Johnson of Marylebone | 518 c560 (Link to this contribution) Profit is important, but it cannot be the sole determinant of Government farming policy. I should pr...
Speaker | 518 c562 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Gentleman should face the Chair when he is speaking. Interventions should be short.
Michael Ellis | 518 c562 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is being extremely generous in giving way. On the subject of legislation and the vol...
Speaker | 518 c562 (Link to this contribution) Order. Interventions should be short and stick to the point of the Bill.
Ian Jnr Paisley | 518 c562 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman accept that a YouGov survey has demonstrated that 80% of consumers would buy...
David Nuttall | 518 c562 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a very valid point. It is worth noting that the Labour party had 13 years in go...
Michael Ellis | 518 c562 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. There have been 11 reports or initiatives on food, climate change and ...
David Nuttall | 518 c562-3 (Link to this contribution) There is a danger that the Bill will do exactly that because the more well-off members of our societ...
David Nuttall | 518 c563-4 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady makes a valid point. We should be concerned about standards of meat production in othe...
Eilidh Whiteford | 518 c563 (Link to this contribution) I share the hon. Gentleman's concern about the burden of regulation on our farmers, but would he agr...
David Nuttall | 518 c564-5 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a point that I shall raise shortly, because the Bill is silent on that. The li...
Michael Ellis | 518 c564 (Link to this contribution) Who would pay for all these experts, and how much would they be paid?
Speaker | 518 c565 (Link to this contribution) Order. Interventions must be short and contain a question.
David Nuttall | 518 c565-7 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend reads out that list, and I accept that those organisations no doubt support the Bill....
Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park | 518 c565 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. I would like an acknowledgement that not only environmental groups bu...
Christopher Chope | 518 c567-8 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is probably about to come on to this, but clause 4, on financial provisions, basicall...
Robert Flello | 518 c549-50 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. I would like to take this opportunity to th...
Ian Jnr Paisley | 518 c550 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman accept that the entire UK agricultural industry is responsible for just 7% o...
Robert Flello | 518 c550 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention, but the figures depend on how one measures emission...
David Nuttall | 518 c550 (Link to this contribution) On that point, has the hon. Gentleman any assessment of what percentage of that rain forest destruct...
Robert Flello | 518 c550-1 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman raises an interesting point, and that is just the sort of thing that we should di...
Christopher Chope | 518 c551 (Link to this contribution) Is there not a more important issue, in that much of the soya is not even kept in the food chain, bu...
Robert Flello | 518 c551 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his intervention, and again, those are the issues that we re...
Robert Flello | 518 c551-2 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful again to the hon. Gentleman. He will find that the CAP subsidy system is up for review...
Martin Horwood | 518 c553 (Link to this contribution) The Rare Breeds Survival Trust, which has connections with livestock and farming, thinks that the Bi...
David Nuttall | 518 c553 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the fact that there are groups such as the Rare Breeds Survival Trust, which works to main...
Simon Hart | 518 c553 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend have a view on why almost no land use or agricultural organisation in the whole ...
Christopher Chope | 518 c553 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend Gentleman share my concern that one of the big problems is that the Bill has bee...
David Nuttall | 518 c553 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for that point. It seems to me that there are many groups—and I will mention ...
David Nuttall | 518 c552 (Link to this contribution) Before I start, I just want to pick up on a couple of points that were made by the hon. Member for S...
Andrew Turner | 518 c553 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that many people are concerned about what will happen in the future? What ...
Michael Ellis | 518 c553 (Link to this contribution) Is my hon. Friend aware—I am from Northampton North by the way—that the National Farmers Union, whic...
David Nuttall | 518 c553 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. The NFU has stated that it supports the aims of the Bill, which it thinks i...
David Nuttall | 518 c554 (Link to this contribution) In the area that my hon. Friend represents, he has, I suspect, one of the highest densities of farme...
David Nuttall | 518 c554 (Link to this contribution) Indeed, but I am sure north Yorkshire is up there, at the top of the league table. From the comparat...
Jacob Rees-Mogg | 518 c554 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that the Bill is particularly concerning because it is so broadly written,...
David Nuttall | 518 c553-4 (Link to this contribution) I agree. My hon. Friend is right. Many people are concerned about that. They can already support org...
Christopher Chope | 518 c554 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that the issue goes further than that? Many people who support intensive l...
David Nuttall | 518 c554 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a good point. I am sure he will want to expand on it later in the debate. My c...
Julian Smith | 518 c554 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that farmers throughout Britain, particularly in Skipton and Ripon and nor...
David Nuttall | 518 c554-5 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a valid point, to which I shall refer later. One of the major problems with the...
Ian Jnr Paisley | 518 c555 (Link to this contribution) Clause 1(4) highlights one of the problems which the Bill, if enacted, could create—that is, the imp...
Subjects
Animal welfare
Agriculture
Cattle
Cereals
Animal feed
Animal products
Environment
Imports
Poultry
Northern Ireland
Livestock
Pigs
Livestock industry
Scotland
Soya beans
Legislation
Sustainable Livestock Bill 2010-12
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