Agriculture Bill
Wednesday, 3 June 2020
Parliamentary committees
House of Lords
Moved by
Lord Greaves
1: Clause 1, page 2, line 10, after “supporting” insert “and en...
My Lords, I rise to move Amendment 1 and speak to the amendments in the first group. We come to R...
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My Lords, it is a privilege to follow the noble Lord, Lord Greaves. I agree with much of what he ...
My Lords, first, I thank the Minister and all those in Defra who have worked so hard between Comm...
My Lords, I support the amendments of the noble Lord, Lord Greaves, which encourage public access...
I have a suspicion that the noble Earl, Lord Dundee, had not quite finished, but we will return t...
No, I have finished my remarks.
Would the noble Earl, Lord Dundee, please finish his remarks?
I confirm that I have finished my remarks already.
I beg your pardon: they were worth waiting for. The next speaker will therefore be the noble Lord...
My Lords, the access part of the Bill immediately caught my eye in terms of improving people’s he...
My Lords, I shall not detain the House long. I have added my name to those of my noble friends Lo...
My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Randall of Uxbridge. I offer the Green ...
I too thank the Minister for the timeliness and succinctness of the brief we have received. As we...
I declare my interests as a farmer and landowner as set out in the register. Briefly, I support A...
My Lords, it is a great pleasure to be back discussing the Bill on Report. I declare my interests...
My Lords, I shall speak to Amendment 27. The consultation with the dairy industry highlighted a n...
My Lords, I shall speak very briefly to two amendments: Amendment 2, in the names of the noble Ea...
My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Cormack, who has been exceptionally kin...
My Lords, it is a great pleasure to be able to contribute to this Bill, and I declare my interest...
My Lords, it has been a fascinating debate. A number of noble Lords have made the point that this...
My Lords, I am grateful to all noble Lords who have spoken in the debate. As we are talking about...
My Lords, I thank noble Lords for contributing to what has been a thoughtful debate. I declare my...
My Lords, I thank my noble friend for what he said. He elucidated the point on which I wanted to ...
I am grateful to my noble friend. I can confirm that the tests and trials will be across all sort...
My Lords, on the Minister’s last point, I am not in touch with a huge number of tests and trials....
We now come to the group beginning with Amendment 6. I remind noble Lords that Members other than...
Moved by
Baroness McIntosh of Pickering
6: Clause 1, page 2, line 25, at end insert—<...
My Lords, I shall speak also to Amendment 48 in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Greaves. I will ...
My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady McIntosh of Pickering. I was please...
My Lords, I declare my interest as president of the Rural Coalition. I speak in support of Amendm...
My Lords, I hope that even at this late stage in our proceedings, the Minister and Government wil...
My Lords, for those of us who have spent decades advocating for human society to work with instea...
My Lords, I will speak to Amendments 8, 21 and 23. I say again that I am very pleased that the Go...
My Lords, I support a number of themes and their corresponding amendments in this group. They sug...
My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow my noble friend Lord Dundee. I thank him for introducing my ...
My Lords, my noble friend Lady Jones of Moulsecoomb has already addressed the Green group’s suppo...
My Lords, I thank everybody who put their names to Amendment 9. I have a little confession: the o...
My Lords, I declare my interest as a landowner, arable farmer and NFU member. I am speaking to an...
My Lords, I am happy to be part of the debate on this group. I agree with almost all the sentimen...
My Lords, once again, I declare my interests, as set out in the register, as a farmer and landown...
I shall speak specifically to my Amendment 48, which concerns commons. I am not sure how it ended...
My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Greaves, and his very interesting thoug...
My Lords, this has been a fascinating and thoughtful debate, and I would like to make a few remar...
My Lords, I support many of the worthy aims of this group of amendments, but my focus is on Amend...
My Lords, I thank my noble friend Lady McIntosh for tabling this amendment. When I first read it,...
My Lords, I repeat what I said in Committee about this part of the Bill. It is a bit like a Chris...
First of all, I declare my interests as a farmer in Suffolk. The lesson I draw from the seven day...
My Lords, I begin by saying how pleased I am to be following my noble friend Lord Marlesford who,...
The reason that I put my name to this group was a single amendment—so I will resist pontificating...
My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Rooker. This is an extremely impo...
My Lords, at the start of my remarks on Report on amendments to the Agriculture Bill, I declare m...
My Lords, I thank all noble Lords for contributing to what I think has been an extensive and very...
My Lords, I am grateful for all the contributions to this debate and the support for Amendments 6...
Moved by
Lord Northbrook
12: Clause 1, page 2, line 31, at end insert—
“(c) sup...
My Lords, I have listened very carefully to the Minister’s winding-up speech. He has been doing a...
My Lords, we now come to the group consisting of Amendment 14. I remind noble Lords that Members ...
Moved by
Baroness Young of Old Scone
14: Clause 1, page 2, line 31, at end insert—
My Lords, I shall speak to Amendment 14, in my name and those of the noble Baroness, Lady Bakewel...
My Lords, taking my cue from the noble Lord, Lord Rooker, on the previous group of amendments, I ...
My Lords, I am pleased to have put my name to Amendment 14, and particularly to emphasise the imp...
My Lords, I think the noble Lord, Lord Rooker, has set a wonderful precedent here. Anything I wou...
The noble Lord, Lord Marlesford, has withdrawn, so I now call the noble Lord, Lord Naseby.
My Lords, since Committee I have reflected on two aspects of the broader farming area that we did...
My Lords, one of the issues that has persisted in this Bill, and in others, is the lack of regula...
My Lords, I would like to congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Young of Old Scone, on bringing f...
The noble Earl, Lord Caithness, has withdrawn, so I now call the noble Baroness, Lady Bakewell of...
My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady McIntosh of Pickering. I congratula...
My Lords, I thank my noble friend Lady Young for moving this amendment and making the case so per...
The primary effect of this amendment would be to provide a new lever to oblige recipients of fina...
My Lords, I have received no requests from noble Lords to ask a short question, so I call the nob...
I thank those noble Lords who contributed to this debate. The majority recognised that there was ...
We now come to the group beginning with Amendment 15. I remind noble Lords that Members other tha...
Moved by
The Earl of Devon
15: Clause 1, page 2, line 31, at end insert—
“(2A) ...
My Lords, this is the Agriculture Bill. As I have said before, it is not the environmental land m...
My Lords, I listened carefully to what the noble Earl said in moving his amendment. For a number ...
My Lords, I start by begging the forgiveness of the noble Earl, Lord Devon. I feel a slight rat i...
My Lords, I rise to support the noble Earl, Lord Devon, and my noble friend Lady McIntosh of Pick...
I call the noble Lord, Lord Rooker. Lord Rooker?
My Lords, I am now unmuted; the order seemed to have changed.
As in Committee, I support th...
My Lords, I apologise to the noble Lord, Lord Rooker. I did not inform him that the noble Lords, ...
My Lords, on one of the first amendments we discussed in Committee, I said that for all the other...
My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Carrington, is not here, so I now call the noble Baroness, Lady No...
My Lords, we already know that our economy will be under pressure in the coming years from the ef...
My Lords, we welcome the tabling of these amendments, which will allow Ministers to go into more ...
My Lords, I thank noble Lords who have contributed to this debate. Wearing my farming hat, as I h...
My Lords, thank you for a fascinating and very conscious debate on this important topic. I heard ...
We now come to Amendment 18. I call the noble Baroness, Lady Neville-Rolfe. She is not responding...
I apologise—it is always bound to go wrong if I am on the Woolsack—but I have already said that A...
Moved by
Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb
28: Clause 2, page 3, line 42, leave out subse...
I shall speak to Amendment 18, which has not been moved, and to my own Amendment 28. I thank the ...
My Lords, I thank noble Lords for their forbearance—I was sitting in a bus that had been slowed d...
It may help the House to understand what is going on if I clarify that the debate is now on Amend...
My Lords, I support everything that my noble friend Lady Neville-Rolfe has said in moving Amendme...
My Lords, my interests are as listed in the register. I should add in relation to Amendment 18, t...
My Lords, I was happy to add my name to Amendment 28, tabled by the noble Baroness, Lady Jones, a...
My Lords, I congratulate all those who have tabled amendments in this group. I congratulate my no...
My Lords, I added my name to Amendment 30 in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady McIntosh of Pic...
My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the right reverend prelate the Bishop of St Albans. I partic...
In this grouping, I support various amendments on monitoring and analysis. First, Amendment 18, f...
My Lords, Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, is this weekend—Shanah Tovah.
The seven-year ...
My Lords, I strongly support the comments of the noble Lord, Lord Curry; I am sure that the Minis...
My Lords, I reiterate my interest in our family farming and horticulture business. Although I no ...
The noble and learned Lord, Lord Morris of Aberavon, has withdrawn from this group of amendments....
My Lords, I support my noble friend Lady Neville-Rolfe’s Amendment 18, also in the names of my no...
My Lords, since the noble Lords, Lord Marlesford, Lord Rooker and Lord Addington, have withdrawn ...
My Lords, I declare my interests as set out in the register.
In connection with Amendment 1...
My Lords, we are in a mess on this group of amendments. I would like some clarification. I think ...
I shall, of course. I shall start with Amendment 28, as it was moved by the noble Baroness, Lady ...
What a wonderful thing flexibility is. I am grateful to the Minister for replying this way. That ...
My Lords, I will be very short. I was working from an old version of the Marshalled List when I s...
My Lords, I simply want to say that I strongly support Amendment 30, because where the end is wis...
My Lords, this has been another lengthy debate on how the financial assistance provided by the Se...
My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Neville-Rolfe, and all noble Lords who have r...
My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have contributed to what has been a very interesting debate...
I have received a request from the noble Baroness, Lady McIntosh of Pickering, to ask a short que...
I ask my noble friend where the business plan that he says will be published in the autumn will b...
I would love to give your Lordships a precise date. The Government understand the need to bring f...
I thank the Minister for his summing up. The noble Baronesses, Lady Jones of Whitchurch and Lady ...
We now come to the group consisting of Amendment 29. I remind noble Lords that Members other than...
Moved by
Lord Grantchester
29: After Clause 3, insert the following new Clause—
My Lords, I have retabled Amendment 29 from Committee, as it could be said to reflect very well o...
My Lords, I am very grateful to my noble friend the Minister for his responses to my amendments i...
My Lords, I am very pleased to be able to put my name to the amendment moved by the noble Lord, L...
My Lords, I am extremely pleased to be able to speak in support of the previous three speakers an...
My Lords, I have attached my name to my noble friend’s amendment. As other noble Lords have said,...
My Lords, first, for the purposes of all of Report, I declare my interests as a farmer and landow...
I call the noble and learned Lord, Lord Morris of Aberavon. No? Then we will move on to the noble...
My Lords, during the dinner break, I went for a brief walk and reflected then on what feels like ...
My Lords, I declare my interests as set out in the register. I supported the noble Lord, Lord Gra...
My Lords, I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Grantchester, and his co-signatories on bringing th...
My Lords, I add my support for the amendment in the name of my noble friend Lord Grantchester on ...
My Lords, this is a very sensible amendment. In everything that we have debated in session after ...
I, too, would also like to thank the noble Lord, Lord Grantchester, for moving this amendment. He...
My Lords, I am grateful to noble Lords for their almost universal acknowledgement tonight of the ...
I thank all noble Lords who have spoken on this amendment, especially the noble Lord, Lord Lucas,...
We now come to the group consisting of Amendment 31. I remind noble Lords that Members other than...
Moved by
Baroness Jones of Whitchurch
31: Clause 4, page 5, line 14, at end insert—
My Lords, Amendment 31 would require the Secretary of State to have regard to the Government’s en...
My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Jones of Whitchurch, and to support...
My Lords, I am delighted to have added my name to the amendment, which is now a cross-party amend...
My Lords, I add my support to the thrust of this amendment, moved so excellently by the noble Bar...
My Lords, I declare an interest as a member of the EU Energy and Environment Sub-Committee. It is...
My Lords, I also declare my interest as a member of the EU Environment Sub-Committee. I congratul...
My Lords, this is one of those occasions when we have to try to reference across from another pie...
My Lords, I too support this amendment and I am grateful to the noble Baroness for tabling it aga...
My Lords, the value of the amendment is that it calls our bluff. The environment is something of ...
My Lords, during the various debates on this Bill I have made the connection between it and the E...
On Amendment 31, I reassure the noble Baroness that the Government will fully take into account t...
My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have added their support today. As the evening gets later, ...
Moved by
Lord Gardiner of Kimble
35: Clause 4, page 5, line 22, leave out “before the...
We now come to the group beginning with Amendment 36. I remind noble Lords that Members other tha...
Moved by
Baroness McIntosh of Pickering
36: Clause 8, page 7, line 40, leave out “202...
My Lords, it gives me great pleasure to move and speak to Amendment 36. This group of amendments ...
My Lords, I declare my interests as set out in the register as farmer, landowner and a recipient ...
My Lords, I support Amendment 36 in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady McIntosh of Pickering, t...
My Lords, I can be brief. Amendment 36 in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady McIntosh of Picker...
My Lords, I am concerned that the mistreatment of and disrespect for farmers under the Bill is co...
My Lords, my interests are as recorded in the register. I fully support and I am very happy to at...
My Lords, I declare my agricultural interests as detailed in the register. I am speaking to two a...
My Lords, I declare my interest as a director of Wrackleford Farms Ltd, a tenant farming enterpri...
My Lords, while I thoroughly support the aims of this Bill and the direction in which the Governm...
My Lords, I call this group of amendments “Mind the Gap”, as I did in Committee—although I note t...
My Lords, I shall speak briefly on why I cannot support Amendment 36 in the name of my noble frie...
My Lords, I hope that the Minister will resist Amendment 36, which would delay the start of the a...
I support Amendment 38 in the name of the noble Duke, the Duke of Wellington. There is really no ...
My Lords, the proposed legislation will inevitably cause a great deal of extra work for not only ...
My Lords, I declare an interest as a landowner, an arable farmer and a recipient of payments from...
My Lords, listening to this debate, it is quite clear that the one thing not available here is an...
My Lords, a transition period of seven years is quite a long period in which to phase out old pol...
My Lords, the lead amendment in this group, Amendment 36, in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady...
My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have contributed to this debate. I will be the first to say...
My Lords, I am disappointed, unless I have misunderstood, that my noble friend did not reply to t...
My Lords, I think I have been very clear that we will be announcing the funding for the early yea...
I understand that the noble Lord, Lord Grantchester, wishes to ask a short question for elucidati...
My Lords, I apologise to the House for asking the Minister a follow-up question. I listened caref...
My Lords, I have been very clear that the Government are bringing forward schemes of a countrysid...
My Lords, I have to express disappointment that I have not received the assurances I sought, but ...
Moved by
Lord Carrington
37: Clause 8, page 7, line 40, at end insert—
“(1A) Wh...
My Lords, I listened very carefully to what was said by the noble Lord, Lord Gardiner. Frankly, n...
We now come to the group beginning with Amendment 43. I remind noble Lords that Members other tha...
Moved by
Lord Cameron of Dillington
43: Clause 16, page 12, line 44, at end insert—
My Lords, Amendment 43 is a very harmless amendment, which merely gives Defra powers to introduce...
My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 44, which is the last of the day in my name. It is complement...
My Lords, I declare my interests as set out in the register. I support both amendments. In the ca...
My Lords, I am in favour of both these amendments. I was just reflecting on a visit I made to a s...
My Lords, I hesitate to disagree with this amendment, tabled by my noble friend Lord Cameron of D...
As the noble Baroness who has just spoken said, we all have huge admiration for the noble Lord, L...
My Lords, I congratulate those taking part in this group of amendments on their stamina. Given th...
My Lords, I beg to move that we adjourn the debate on Amendment 43.