Food Contamination

I commend the hon. Lady for securing the debate. Perhaps I can bring together two strands of her ...

I welcome that intervention. The hon. Gentleman’s Front-Bench colleague, the hon. Member for Bren...

It is a great pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mrs Osborne, at this late hour on a Thur...

My hon. Friend is makes a good contribution. He has a great background in this area. Does he agre...

I agree. My hon. Friend—he is a Welsh MP with me, so I will call him that—reiterates the words of...

What are the hon. Gentleman’s views on the need for deep intelligence across Departments in analy...

The hon. Gentleman raises another good point. We must use intelligence. When I was doing work on ...

It is good to serve under your chairmanship, Mrs Osborne. I welcome the new Minister to his place...

The hon. Gentleman is making a good and cogent point. We must guard not only against inhumane tra...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention. It leads me neatly on to the fact that, as I sai...

Was my hon. Friend amazed, like me, to hear that Tesco has said that British lamb is now out of s...

The fact is that for most grass-fed lamb from Wales, the west country and other parts of the coun...

It is a delight to be here, as always. I congratulate the hon. Member for Thirsk and Malton (Miss...

indicated dissent.

My apologies. I was expecting to see the other new Minister. I welcome the Under-Secretary of Sta...

One of the reports.

The Minister is a collective author of one of the reports, and there is no way in which he would ...

It would be interesting to know what the hon. Gentleman’s potential future Administration would d...

I welcome the hon. Lady’s intervention and the focus that she and the Select Committee have put o...

I accept, to some degree, the hon. Gentleman’s assertions about changes to the FSA, but there had...

I utterly refute the idea of my being disingenuous, because I am citing the words, evidence and r...

The debate must end by 16.43, and it would be appreciated if the Minister would leave some time a...

It is a pleasure, Mrs Osborne, to serve under your chairmanship and to stand here as both a Minis...

I commend the Minister for making a very good first stab at it; I know that he will be excellent ...

I am seeking areas of common ground between the two—between the Committee and the NAO. Having had...

I congratulate my hon. Friend on his first outing as Minister. There is some common ground betwee...

The hon. Lady is absolutely correct. When I was responding to the hon. Member for Ogmore earlier,...

Are you in the NAO report as well? [Laughter.]

No—absolutely not.

Anyway, a week is a long time in politics.

I will just go through some of the points that h...

I should like to mention a couple of points that I did not talk about directly in my remarks. The...

I am most grateful to the Minister. Although it would be hugely expensive to deal with, there is ...