Beef Cattle and Sheep (Carbon Footprint)

Thank you for that. We will keep interventions a little shorter in future.

The hon. Lady is right, because climatic conditions will make a difference. The amount of time th...

In my hon. Friend’s calculations, will he make reference to the transportation of meat once it ha...

Indeed. When we import meat from South America, Australia or New Zealand, we should take into acc...

I applaud both the fact that we are having this debate and the work that my hon. Friend and his c...

I could not agree more with my hon. Friend. The purpose of this inquiry and report is to look at ...

My hon. Friend is being very generous with his time. I hope that he recognises that we need to vi...

My hon. Friend raises another important issue. I have visited Brazil, where people are ploughing ...

I thank my hon. Friend for allowing me to intervene, and I do so only to ask him to agree that th...

My hon. Friend refers to the amount of permanent pasture in Wales. Much of the land may well be t...

May I draw the hon. Gentleman’s attention to something that he might find interesting, which is t...

The shadow Minister raises an interesting issue about not only carbon sequestration but the manag...

I am grateful to my hon. Friend for giving way. Like me, he was a farmer before first entering th...

My hon. Friend and I should probably both declare an interest; I should certainly do so as I am a...

I thank the hon. Member for Tiverton and Honiton (Neil Parish) for bringing this matter to the We...

Regarding the importance for Northern Ireland, does my hon. Friend agree that on this issue, like...

I thank my hon. Friend for a good intervention. I am confident that the Minister will give us som...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for giving way and congratulate the hon. Member for Tiverton and Honit...

I thank the hon. Lady for her intervention. I am aware of that. Certainly, the Ulster Farmers Uni...

I congratulate the hon. Member for Tiverton and Honiton (Neil Parish) not only on securing the de...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Banff and Buchan (Dr Whiteford)—I very much enjoye...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

I would be delighted to give way after challenging the hon. Gentleman.

Welsh Whites are a very small breed, with little panda eyes that look up at you. It would be very...

It is difficult to justify having these wonderful animals if they have no purpose. One key point ...

It is a pleasure, as ever, to serve under your chairmanship, Mrs Brooke.

It is probably mas...

When the hon. Lady refers to the dangers of livestock production, is she differentiating between ...

I will get on to that in a moment. It was one of the first points I was going to make.

My h...

The hon. Members who have spoken in the debate have focused on local farming, but I think every o...

I entirely support the move, if people are going to eat meat, towards locally-sourced, sustainabl...

The hon. Lady is making an important point about the substitution of animal feed for human food, ...

I understand the nuanced argument that the hon. Gentleman is trying to make, but I still think th...

Will the hon. Lady give way?

I do not think I can take any more interventions, because I suspect the winding-up speeches will ...

It is a delight to serve in a debate under your stewardship, Mrs Brooke, and to respond briefly, ...

It is definitely still next door to my constituency, though.

It is, but it is next door to a lot of others as well. We may be slightly smaller than other coun...

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mrs Brooke, and I think that this is the first...

My understanding of what the Minister said is that grassland is better storage than a sequestrati...

There is a constant store in any land management system. Any landscape feature, if it is not chan...

Will the Minister address the point that was made by the hon. Member for Tiverton and Honiton (Ne...

The hon. Lady is of course right. A greenhouse gas is a greenhouse gas and has an effect on clima...

I thought I made it clear at the beginning that I was concerned primarily about soya and grain pr...

I understand. I am not trying to misrepresent the hon. Lady’s point of view. She opened her comme...

I thank the Minister for his response. I want to put on the record the benefits of grass-fed beef...

I am glad that I gave way to my hon. Friend to make that final comment without running foul of th...