It is a pleasure to serve under your chairpersonship, Ms Elliott.
I pay huge tribute to the hon. Member for Totnes (Anthony Mangnall) for securing this debate and for his excellent speech, much if not most of which I agreed with. Like him, I am a free trader. Free trade is...
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairpersonship, Ms Elliott.
I pay huge tribute to the hon. Member for Totnes (Anthony Mangnall) for securing this debate and for his excellent speech, much if not most of which I agreed with. Like him, I am a free trader. Free trade is...
My Lords, I grew up in Ireland and most of my family still live there, so I want to concentrate on the practical implications of this Bill for ordinary people and ordinary traders on both sides of the border. A good example is Northern Ireland’s 3,000 dairy farmers: together, they...
My Lords, I grew up in Ireland and most of my family still live there, so I want to concentrate on the practical implications of this Bill for ordinary people and ordinary traders on both sides of the border. A good example is Northern Ireland’s 3,000 dairy farmers: together, they...
The Northern Ireland Protocol Bill would make some provisions of the Northern Ireland Protocol ‘excluded provision’, meaning they would no longer apply in domestic law. This would include provisions dealing with customs and the movement of goods between Great Britain and Northern Ireland, state aid and the jurisdiction of the Court of Justice of the European Union over the protocol. The bill would give ministers delegated powers to change which parts of the protocol would be ‘excluded provision’ in domestic law. They would also have delegated powers to make new law in connection with the protocol, such as on the movement and regulation of goods. The wide scope of these powers has been criticised and the House of Lords Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee has recommended many of them be removed from the bill.
The government argues the bill is needed because the protocol is failing to achieve all its objectives and has led to disruption to the economy and challenges to political stability in Northern Ireland. Discussions with the EU over many months have not resulted in any agreement to change the protocol. However, according to recent press reports, talks between officials could start again in early October 2022.
Power-sharing collapsed in February 2022 over Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) objections to the protocol. The DUP has welcomed the bill but has not returned to the executive. Northern Ireland remains without fully functioning political institutions. All the non-unionist parties in the Northern Ireland Assembly object to the bill. If no executive is in place by 28 October 2022, a new assembly election must be called.
The government acknowledges the bill envisages the non-performance of some of the UK’s international obligations. It maintains this is justified in international law by the doctrine of necessity. However, many legal commentators are not convinced the government has demonstrated a situation of necessity exists that would justify non-performance of the UK’s international obligations.
The EU has criticised the UK for taking unilateral action over the protocol. It has launched infringement procedures against the UK for alleged non-compliance with the protocol. The EU put forward proposals for implementing the protocol more flexibly but has ruled out renegotiating the text.
The bill was not amended in the House of Commons. MPs raised concerns about its compatibility with international law, the scope of delegated powers, what should be ‘excluded provision’ and securing the consent of different communities in Northern Ireland.
The Northern Ireland Protocol Bill would make some provisions of the Northern Ireland Protocol ‘excluded provision’, meaning they would no longer apply in domestic law. This would include provisions dealing with customs and the movement of goods between Great Britain and Northern Ireland, state aid and the jurisdiction of the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to offer plant-based milk alternatives (a) in the Nursery Milk Scheme and (b) through Healthy Start Vouchers.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to offer plant-based milk alternatives (a) in the Nursery Milk Scheme and (b) through Healthy Start Vouchers.
At present the legislation governing the Healthy Start scheme and the Nursery Milk Scheme allows for the purchase or reimbursement of the cost of cow’s milk and infant formula based on cow’s milk. The Department is currently considering this position.
Beneficiaries can use Healthy Start to purchase extra fruit and vegetables if they are unable to drink cow’s milk or infant formula based on cow’s milk. Infant formulas can be prescribed by general practitioners for a range of clinical indications.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to make provision through the Healthy Start Scheme for children who cannot drink cows' milk .
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to make provision through the Healthy Start Scheme for children who cannot drink cows' milk .
At present the legislation governing the Healthy Start Scheme allows for the purchase of cow’s milk and infant formula based on cow’s milk. The Department is currently considering this position. Beneficiaries in receipt of Healthy Start can purchase extra fruit and vegetables if they are unable to drink cow’s milk or infant formula based on cow’s milk. Infant formulas can be prescribed by general practitioners for a range of clinical indications.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of increasing access to soy-based milk formulae.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of increasing access to soy-based milk formulae.
At present the legislation governing the Healthy Start Scheme allows for the purchase of cow’s milk and infant formula based on cow’s milk. The Department is currently considering this position. Beneficiaries in receipt of Healthy Start can purchase extra fruit and vegetables if they are unable to drink cow’s milk or infant formula based on cow’s milk. Infant formulas can be prescribed by general practitioners for a range of clinical indications.
The legal term for the death of a monarch is “Demise of the Crown”. This refers to the transfer of authority from one sovereign to another due to death or abdication. By law, a sovereign’s eldest child automatically inherits the Crown. Statute also restricts succession to those who are in “communion with the Church of England”. The death of a monarch – and the accession of a new sovereign – involves the Cabinet, the Privy Council, Parliament, Buckingham Palace and the Church of England.
The Cabinet meets and, shortly after a Demise, an Accession Council is summonsed to proclaim a new monarch. An Accession Proclamation is read aloud and signed by those present at St James’s Palace. The new sovereign then joins the Council to make a non-statutory personal Declaration and take a statutory oath to protect the Church of Scotland. The proclamation is then read in public at a variety of locations.
Parliament meets immediately following a Demise. Members of both Houses retake their oaths and move motions expressing condolences and loyalty to the new sovereign. The former sovereign customarily lies in state at Westminster Hall for several days, which allows members of the public to pay their respects. Finally, there is a state funeral paid for by the government.
The information in this paper is largely derived from events which followed the Demise of Queen Victoria in January 1901, King Edward VII in May 1910, King George V in January 1936 and King George VI in February 1952. It also draws on the abdication of King Edward VIII in December 1936. It is not intended as a comprehensive guide to what will always occur following a Demise and chiefly describes what has happened in the past.
The legal term for the death of a monarch is “Demise of the Crown”. This refers to the transfer of authority from one sovereign to another due to death or abdication. By law, a sovereign’s eldest child automatically inherits the Crown. Statute also restricts succession to those who are in...
I am honoured to be able to pay tribute to the remarkable life of Her late Majesty, who has touched all our hearts in so many ways, bringing comfort and guidance to all of us whenever it was needed.
Queen Elizabeth II holds a very special place in the hearts of...
I am honoured to be able to pay tribute to the remarkable life of Her late Majesty, who has touched all our hearts in so many ways, bringing comfort and guidance to all of us whenever it was needed.
Queen Elizabeth II holds a very special place in the hearts of...
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairing, Mr Robertson. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Waveney (Peter Aldous) for securing this important debate. I also want to welcome the Minister to his place this afternoon. I know he farms himself, so I hope he will listen....
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairing, Mr Robertson. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Waveney (Peter Aldous) for securing this important debate. I also want to welcome the Minister to his place this afternoon. I know he farms himself, so I hope he will listen....
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mr Robertson. I congratulate the hon. Member for Waveney (Peter Aldous) on securing this debate. As many people in this room are, I am passionate about food, particularly locally grown food. Our relationship with food, and how and when it can...
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mr Robertson. I congratulate the hon. Member for Waveney (Peter Aldous) on securing this debate. As many people in this room are, I am passionate about food, particularly locally grown food. Our relationship with food, and how and when it can...
I beg to move,
That this House has considered access to the Healthy Start scheme.
It is a pleasure to introduce the debate and to see you in the Chair, Ms Rees. I start by praising Healthy Start. The scheme provides support to expectant mothers who are more than 10 weeks pregnant,...
I beg to move,
That this House has considered access to the Healthy Start scheme.
It is a pleasure to introduce the debate and to see you in the Chair, Ms Rees. I start by praising Healthy Start. The scheme provides support to expectant mothers who are more than 10 weeks pregnant,...
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship again, Ms Rees, and I am grateful to the hon. Member for Stretford and Urmston (Kate Green) for securing the debate. I know that she is passionate about the Healthy Start scheme and the wider issue of children and young people....
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship again, Ms Rees, and I am grateful to the hon. Member for Stretford and Urmston (Kate Green) for securing the debate. I know that she is passionate about the Healthy Start scheme and the wider issue of children and young people....
On the island, we have persuaded Southern Water to undertake its most ambitious pathfinder project, which should, in time, see dramatic improvements. We need them, because in the past 24 hours we have had overflows at Bembridge, Cowes, Ryde, Seaview, Freshwater and Gurnard, which is unacceptable. I pay tribute to...
On the island, we have persuaded Southern Water to undertake its most ambitious pathfinder project, which should, in time, see dramatic improvements. We need them, because in the past 24 hours we have had overflows at Bembridge, Cowes, Ryde, Seaview, Freshwater and Gurnard, which is unacceptable. I pay tribute to...
I know exactly why the car is sitting in his shed. It is because no one will take it out.
The opportunity is there. The last time I was in New Zealand, I was talking to people about British cars and I mentioned the word “Jag”. They all said, “I would...
I know exactly why the car is sitting in his shed. It is because no one will take it out.
The opportunity is there. The last time I was in New Zealand, I was talking to people about British cars and I mentioned the word “Jag”. They all said, “I would...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will publish statistics his Department holds on how many (a) cows, (b) sheep and (c) pigs have been identified as having their health and welfare affected as a result of extreme conformation in the UK.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will publish statistics his Department holds on how many (a) cows, (b) sheep and (c) pigs have been identified as having their health and welfare affected as a result of extreme conformation in the UK.
Animal and Plant Health Agency does not hold any data regarding specific numbers of cows, sheep and pigs that have been identified as having their health and welfare affected as a result of extreme conformation and therefore, they are not available for publication.
For the record again, I repeat, and do so with authority: Lakeland Dairies has told me that whatever legislation is in place, if it assists the Bill to go through it will work with that, north and south, to make it happen—and that is the important point.
It is all very...
For the record again, I repeat, and do so with authority: Lakeland Dairies has told me that whatever legislation is in place, if it assists the Bill to go through it will work with that, north and south, to make it happen—and that is the important point.
It is all very...
I’ve milked the cow!
I’ve milked the cow!
But it’s coming from the same cows, being milked by the same machines.
But it’s coming from the same cows, being milked by the same machines.
The hon. Member may say it is coming from the same cows and the same machines. The issue here is that—
The hon. Member may say it is coming from the same cows and the same machines. The issue here is that—
The hon. Gentleman tempts me to refer to the time when his father famously said that the people of Northern Ireland may well be British,
“but our cows are Irish”,
which recognised the integration of animal health and agriculture on the island of Ireland. It was certainly a wise comment from the...
The hon. Gentleman tempts me to refer to the time when his father famously said that the people of Northern Ireland may well be British,
“but our cows are Irish”,
which recognised the integration of animal health and agriculture on the island of Ireland. It was certainly a wise comment from the...
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