Dairy Industry
I welcome the Minister to Westminster Hall for the third time in two days. He must be getting use...
My hon. Friend is quite right, and I am looking forward to the rest of his speech, but four pints...
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I will be coming to that in due course, but it is particularly galling for a producer to see that...
Does the hon. Gentleman agree that that is the very reason why we need the voluntary code to be s...
I thank the hon. Lady, who is a near neighbour. Yes, I will be making that point. The code and th...
Does my hon. Friend agree that it is intolerable that producers have to give the buyers of their ...
My hon. Friend makes a good point. Of course that is right, and it is why we need to look at the ...
It is absolutely right for my hon. Friend to be having this debate. British dairy products and mi...
I thank my hon. Friend for his intervention, but I might press on now and not take quite so many ...
I congratulate my hon. Friend on securing the debate. I represent the county with the smallest po...
I thank my hon. Friend for a contribution that I will add to my list of questions for the Ministe...
I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on securing this vital debate on dairy prices. Is he aware that...
The hon. Lady’s contribution is timely. One advantage of debates such as this is that we can brin...
Will my hon. Friend give way?
I am not getting on too well with not taking interventions, am I? I will give up, so I happily gi...
I thank my hon. Friend for his generosity. When farmers are asked to open their accounts prior to...
My hon. Friend is referring to the cost of production and the guarantee element of contracts betw...
Returning to the issue of producer organisations and what we could almost call collective bargain...
The short answer is yes. This is a matter of the sustainability and the long-term health and vigo...
I congratulate my hon. Friend on securing a really important debate for our dairy industry. He is...
That point is accepted by the farming unions, but as my hon. Friend rightly points out, offsettin...
I assure the hon. Gentleman that there is no press release attached to my intervention. He has go...
The hon. Gentleman plays nicely into the completion of my contribution. I want to quote from a fa...
Order. Because of the number of Members wishing to speak, with the authority of the Chairman of W...
Diolch, Mrs Riordan. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship. I start by congratulating...
On the impact of sanctions from Russia, does the hon. Gentleman believe that the Government shoul...
I would certainly encourage people in Wales to eat Welsh cheese and to drink as much Welsh milk a...
Before the hon. Gentleman continues his list of remedies for the problem, does he agree that a pa...
That point is especially pertinent to the dairy industry, because entering the market requires a ...
Just before the hon. Gentleman moves away from that point, on the issue of the UK-wide promotion ...
The hon. Gentleman makes a valid intervention. There are huge opportunities in developing markets...
I welcome you to the Chair, Mrs Riordan, and the Minister to his place, and I congratulate my hon...
Might that be something one could refer to the Competition and Markets Authority, instead of tryi...
I beg to disagree with my hon. Friend; I believe that the groceries code adjudicator should exten...
One of the key drivers in the creation of the groceries code adjudicator was to try to deal with ...
I am delighted that my hon. Friend made that intervention. I hope that the Minister, having heard...
I congratulate the hon. Member for Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire (Simon Hart) on bringi...
It is a privilege to serve under your chairmanship, Mrs Riordan. I congratulate my hon. Friend th...
The other reason is supermarkets trying to sell four pints for £1. While most consumers would wel...
The hon. Gentleman also represents a rural constituency, and that is certainly the message from c...
Order. Unfortunately, because of the number of hon. Members who still want to speak, I am reducin...
I congratulate the hon. Member for Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire (Simon Hart) on securi...
One of the key issues seems to be the world market and the competition problems that we face. Man...
There are a number of fundamental things that need to be tackled. I am going to say something tha...
It is a pleasure to join the debate. I congratulate the hon. Member for Carmarthen West and South...
It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Somerton and Frome (Mr Heath). I pay tribute to hi...
Does my hon. Friend agree that there are also pressures on, for example, the baking industry, in ...
Absolutely. The example that I was going to give is that of Glanbia Cheese, which produces mozzar...
Order. Quite a number of hon. Members still wish to speak. I intend to call the Opposition spokes...
I, too, congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire (Simon...
Is it not time that we looked at regulating supermarkets to protect the farmers and suppliers?
That is a fair point, but it should be pointed out that there are some supply chain initiatives t...
I want to make a few swift points in the time available to me. First, it seems to me that much of...
With less than two minutes, I call Tessa Munt.
3.38 pm
I will make very few points, because most of the points have been made already, but it seems a gr...
I would be delighted to speak for the last few seconds. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Car...
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mrs Riordan. I thank the hon. Member for Carma...
If there had not been such demand today and I had been able to make a speech, I would have liked ...
That is clearly for the Minister to answer. I made the point earlier that we need to see effectiv...
Will the hon. Lady give way?
I will not give way, because I need to give the Minister time to respond. “Leading the Way” is an...
I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire (Simon Hart)...
Dairy UK is concerned that some information issued by the Department of Health about the quality ...
That was an issue about a year ago. We had discussions with the Department of Health, and the Gov...
I thank the Minister for giving way, as I had hoped to speak in this debate. There was a meeting ...
My hon. Friend makes an important point, which I will address in a moment.
Volatility is, o...