Exiting the European Union (Agriculture)

With this we will consider the following motion:

That the draft Organic Production and Cont...

These statutory instruments were made under the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 which incorp...

My hon. Friend will, I hope, come to this later in his speech, but how will we ensure that the st...

My hon. Friend can be assured that we are in no way seeking to water down our standards. We will ...

The Minister is probably aware that concern has been expressed by some agri-food companies in my ...

I understand, I think, the hon. Gentleman’s point, in the sense that there are a number of labell...

I am delighted to be taking part in this debate at this fairly late hour. We could have done this...

I rise to support these two statutory instruments. I will be brief because, although I intended t...

Does the hon. Gentleman share my fear that people working extremely hard very late at night to ge...

No, I do not. Having worked in DEFRA for five and a half years, I have tremendous admiration and ...

I pay enormous tribute to my hon. Friend. I was his Parliamentary Private Secretary when he was a...

My hon. Friend makes an important point. Of course, that is exactly what the regulations are abou...

You wait ages for one Drew to come along, Madam Deputy Speaker, and then two come along together....

It is a great pleasure to speak in this debate; I think that we should perhaps get back to organi...

My hon. Friend makes an important point about being listed as a third country so that exports can...

I very much welcome that comment, because two or three weeks ago, the Environment, Food and Rural...

My hon. Friend rightly makes the point that we can unilaterally decide to be freer about letting ...

The hon. Lady raises a good point. Milk production is a good example. Organics is a selected mark...

I am delighted to take part in this debate.

The organic sector in this country prides itsel...

rose—

I will of course give way to a fellow Member from the south-west.

I am grateful to my hon. Friend. She raises exactly the right point. It is good to see so many so...

Absolutely. I thank my hon. Friend—I could not agree more. He is right about the south-west. I wa...

What I find most important is that the consumer has confidence, when they see what the label says...

I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention. I thoroughly agree. I know that his own beef animal...

This debate has been interesting; I think we should do it more often at this hour. I will keep th...