Food Supply and Security

My Lords, I will focus on horticulture, a vital part of our country’s food production. I am in Sa...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Boycott, for introducing this debate and I declare my ...

I also thank the noble Baroness, Lady Boycott, for introducing the debate. My admirable Lib Dem c...

My Lords, I congratulate my noble friend Lady Boycott on her persistent pursuit of this important...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Boycott, for this debate and I declare my interest as ...

I too thank the noble Baroness, Lady Boycott, for securing this debate. All parts of the economy ...

I call the noble Baroness, Lady Young of Old Scone. Oh, her sound quality is so poor that we will...

My Lords, the outbreak of the Covid-19 virus highlights weaknesses in the food system and will ex...

My Lords, I will concentrate my brief comments on the long-term impacts of the pandemic on UK foo...

My Lords, I congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Boycott, on her tour de force in introducing th...

My Lords, the House will probably be aware of my horticultural and agricultural interests in the ...

My Lords, I also pay tribute to the noble Baroness, Lady Boycott, both for this debate and for he...

My Lords, I was privileged to be a member of the Lords EU Energy and Environment Sub-Committee wh...

My Lords, Covid-19 has shown the importance of having a resilient food industry. It is obvious th...

My Lords, I will touch on the people involved in food supply, on the technology associated with i...

My Lords, I declare my interests in the register and also declare that my youngest son is a poult...

My Lords, we are indebted to the noble Baroness, Lady Boycott, who, like me, farms down here in s...

My Lords, I am very grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Boycott, for the chance to have this deb...

My Lords, the noble Baroness’s word “supply” brings to my mind my brief time in the Army when on ...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Boycott, for opening the debate and covering a wide ra...

I start by thanking the noble and learned Lord, Lord Hope, for taking me back to my student days ...

My Lords, I start by paying tribute to the staff of supermarkets and small shops who have worked ...

My Lords, I warmly welcome this debate tabled by the noble Baroness, Lady Boycott—a true champion...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Boycott, for this important debate and her comprehensi...

Lord West of Spithead. No? I call the noble Baroness, Lady Parminter.

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My Lords, we know that if we are to help our bodies, we need to eat well and to eat sufficient fr...

My Lords, I recognise the role of farmers and the food industry in putting food on our plates, an...

My Lords, I have two minutes and two questions; one on seasonal workers and one on food waste. To...

I join other noble Lords in thanking the noble Baroness, Lady Boycott, for securing this debate a...

My Lords, the pandemic has caused severe disruptions in our agriculture, fishery and dairy sector...

My Lords, one farming subject that comes up regularly is the picking of crops and migrant workers...

I thank my noble friend Lady Boycott for securing this debate.

We can survive without many ...

My Lords, as always, I declare my agricultural interests as detailed in the register. This debate...

My Lords, I add my congratulations to the noble Baroness, Lady Boycott, on securing this debate a...

My Lords, I congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Boycott, on her excellent introduction. I whole...

My Lords, during the current crisis, people have become very focused on food. Families have been ...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Boycott, for securing this debate and for her excellen...

My Lords, I declare my interests as set out in the register, in particular as a director of Gusbo...

My Lords, I congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Boycott, on her very comprehensive overview of ...

In 2014, the EU Sub- Committee which I was chairing at the time held an inquiry into food waste, ...

My Lords, I add my congratulations to the noble Baroness, Lady Boycott, but I want to focus on th...

My Lords, this is a timely debate and I echo the thanks that noble Lords have expressed to the no...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Boycott, for such an all-embracing and spirit...

My Lords, as we have heard, food security is a global issue as well as a national and local one. ...

My Lords, there are 1 million people on the Government’s clinically vulnerable list but nearly 14...

My Lords, I congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Boycott, on securing this important debate.

I thank the Deputy Speaker for letting me have a second go after I sounded like a Dalek the first...

My Lords, I too thank the noble Baroness, Lady Boycott, for raising this debate and for her wise ...

My Lords, I too congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Boycott, on securing this vital debate and ...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Boycott, for tabling this debate today. She h...

My Lords, I declare my farming interests as set out in the register. Food supply and food securit...

My Lords, thank you so very much for such a wonderful, varied and interesting series of contribut...

My Lords, the Virtual Proceedings will now adjourn until a convenient point after 4.30 pm for the...