Parliamentary search - Intensive Dairy Farming

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

520 c213-35WH

Session

2010-12

Department

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Chamber / Committee

Westminster Hall

Proceeding contributions

Chris Skidmore | 520 c234WH (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister give way?

James Paice | 520 c234-5WH (Link to this contribution) I am sorry, but I cannot give way any more. People would not have the cheap liquid milk that they w...

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Neil Parish | 520 c233WH (Link to this contribution) I do not believe that we want to go backwards, but this proposal wants to go forwards too fast. It w...

James Paice | 520 c233WH (Link to this contribution) I understand my hon. Friend's point, and I will try to pick it up, although I will obviously not be ...

Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park | 520 c233WH (Link to this contribution) The Minister is right to have identified, as others have, the perverse European rules that force us ...

James Paice | 520 c233-4WH (Link to this contribution) Without wishing to duck that question, I should say that trade issues are, as my hon. Friend is well...

James Paice | 520 c232WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to be serving under your chairmanship for, I think, the first time, Mr Leigh. I start ...

Glyn Davies | 520 c227-8WH (Link to this contribution) Several issues are probably involved, so I want to make my second point, which is that we might want...

Speaker | 520 c228WH (Link to this contribution) Order. I want to allow time for the winding-up speeches, so I will call Neil Parish now, but he must...

Glyn Davies | 520 c227WH (Link to this contribution) I heard that the original Nocton proposal was for 7,000 cows. Once we reach 1,000, the principle is ...

Simon Hart | 520 c227WH (Link to this contribution) We are in danger of muddling two things, one of which is the size of the unit. Plenty of farmers hav...

Roger Gale | 520 c231WH (Link to this contribution) Does the shadow Minister accept that there is a fundamental difference between animal health and ani...

William Bain | 520 c231WH (Link to this contribution) That is an extremely good point. The hon. Gentleman anticipated the argument that I was going to adv...

Neil Parish | 520 c228-30WH (Link to this contribution) I should like to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Montgomeryshire (Glyn Davies) and say that my ...

William Bain | 520 c230-1WH (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship for the first time, Mr Leigh, as it was under Mrs ...

William Bain | 520 c231-2WH (Link to this contribution) That is another excellent point, and it is why we must move with extreme care and ensure that we get...

Stephen Phillips | 520 c231WH (Link to this contribution) In the US, which is a much larger country, there is a minimum separation zone between these sorts of...

Simon Hart | 520 c219-21WH (Link to this contribution) I join in congratulating my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Sleaford and North Hykeham (Steph...

Roger Williams | 520 c221WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is generating an interesting point of view, which is that we need a range of dairy fa...

Roger Gale | 520 c222-3WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Sleaford and North Hykeham (Stephen Phillip...

Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park | 520 c224-6WH (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Sleaford and North Hykeham (Stephen Phillips) for ...

Stephen Phillips | 520 c227WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is concerned about 4,000 cows, but I wish to make it clear that the proposers of the ...

Glyn Davies | 520 c226WH (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mrs Riordan, for the opportunity to contribute to a debate that is close to my own intere...

Stephen Phillips | 520 c213-5WH (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful to have been granted this important debate on an issue that has not thus far spen...

Andrew Turner | 520 c215WH (Link to this contribution) One of the problems is not that the farmers sell directly to supermarkets, but that they sell to int...

James Paice | 520 c217WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. and learned Friend has just used a phrase that I would not wish to gain currency. I can conf...

Stephen Phillips | 520 c217-9WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for that correction. At some point, we may need to have another debate...

Robert Flello | 520 c219WH (Link to this contribution) I apologise for my late arrival; unfortunately, I was detained elsewhere in the House on other busin...

Stephen Phillips | 520 c219WH (Link to this contribution) I agree with the hon. Gentleman. That was my reason for asking for this debate in the first place. I...

Stephen Phillips | 520 c215-6WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is correct. The real point is that the price pressure that has come down from the sup...

Stephen Phillips | 520 c217WH (Link to this contribution) I was not aware of that, but it does not surprise me, given the state of the British dairy industry....

Simon Hart | 520 c216WH (Link to this contribution) On my hon. and learned Friend's previous point, is he aware that a number of auctioneers across the ...

Stephen Phillips | 520 c217WH (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend. I believe that at the election all three main parties promised a farmin...

Roger Williams | 520 c217WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. and learned Friend on how he is taking the debate forward. He has made the im...

Simon Hart | 520 c221-2WH (Link to this contribution) I agree. There is no greater expert on this subject than my hon. Friend. I want to return to welfar...

Robert Flello | 520 c223WH (Link to this contribution) I am listening with great interest and appreciating the passion of the hon. Gentleman's speech. Will...

Roger Gale | 520 c223-4WH (Link to this contribution) I will not be tempted down that road, simply because it is probably outside the remit of this debate...

Subjects

Animal welfare

Dairy farming

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