Elliott Review and Food Crime

Absolutely. In many ways, the scandal rejuvenated the way we used to buy food in the high street ...

To take the cottage pie example, should not the message from this debate, aside from all the poin...

Yes. It is an incredibly important message, and I am happy to accept any invitation to have a cot...

Before the hon. Lady accepts the cottage pie from the hon. Member for Hexham (Guy Opperman), she ...

The right hon. Gentleman is absolutely right, and he is doing extremely important work on the who...

I congratulate the hon. Lady on securing this debate and wish I could stay a little longer. She o...

I absolutely agree with my hon. Friend; that is absolutely crucial. I do not believe that we have...

I congratulate the hon. Lady on securing this timely debate. Does she agree that an innovative su...

The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. That is both incumbent on the food sector and in its inte...

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Dr McCrea. I congratulate the hon. Member for ...

Does the hon. Lady agree that with the fall in the amount of testing and sampling, and price incr...

Yes. There is a double incentive. One is that people are perhaps more likely to do things that th...

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship today, Dr McCrea, and to follow the hon. Member...

Those early warning signs are the important issue for the Government. We need to ensure that when...

As my hon. Friend has pointed out, scrutiny of the issues is split between more than one Departme...

The hon. Lady is making a good contribution. May I take her one step back? She made a point about...

The hon. Gentleman—I might dare to call him my hon. Friend—makes a powerful point. The key to eve...

That is an important point about communicating with the consumer. If product has not met the requ...

My hon. Friend’s point is extremely well made and I am grateful for it.

Turning to food cri...

It is a pleasure to contribute to the debate, and to do so under your chairmanship, Dr McCrea. I ...

The hon. Gentleman makes a good point. He has a particular perspective on this issue because, lik...

I thank the shadow Minister for that sensible contribution, which we can all endorse. When the Mi...

The hon. Gentleman is making some extremely good points. Does he accept that one of the interesti...

Again, the hon. Gentleman makes a valuable contribution that I endorse and support. It is not rig...

The other issue is the disproportionate impact on poorer households and their health. We must not...

I accept that, and thank the hon. Lady for her wise words.

Of those surveyed, 56% were conf...

It is a great pleasure, Dr McCrea, to serve under your stewardship this morning in what has been ...

I am somewhat baffled about how there can be such long supply chains in the manufacture of food p...

My hon. Friend makes a very good point, but I think we have to accept that in international food ...

I want to clarify that I am not really talking about us exporting our products or importing produ...

My hon. Friend makes a very good point—I am sorry, I did not realise that she was referring to th...

The hon. Gentleman is making a very important point. It is absolutely crucial, when looking at in...

The hon. Lady makes an absolutely valid point, and we should be leading on the matter. We have to...

As always in these debates, I have many questions to answer and not a great deal of time, but I w...

Is it not the case that the horse has bolted, to coin a phrase, and that those who have perpetrat...

I do not accept that. Investigations are continuing at a number of sites across the UK. City of L...

I welcome the Minister’s full response. Is the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs...

I was going to come on to that point, but I will deal with it now because my hon. Friend has rais...

In my contribution, I asked how DEFRA would work with Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales to ens...

Again, that is something that I was going to come on to. Food enforcement is a devolved responsib...