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Agriculture Bill

Debate on bills on Wednesday, 10 June 2020, in the House of Lords, led by Lord Gardiner of Kimble. The answering member was Baroness Jones of Whitchurch.
Lords second reading. Agreed to on question. Bill committed to a Committee of the Whole House.

About these Parliamentary proceedings

Reference

803 cc1751-1836 

Session

2019-21

Legislative stage

Second reading

Procedure

Hybrid proceedings

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords chamber
Agriculture Bill 2019-21. Brought from the Commons.
Monday, 18 May 2020
Bills
House of Lords
Agriculture Bill: Briefing for Lords Stages
Friday, 22 May 2020
Research briefings
Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee thirteenth report.
Wednesday, 3 June 2020
Parliamentary committees
House of Lords
Deposited Paper DEP2020-0373
Monday, 29 June 2020
Deposited papers
House of Lords

Proceeding contributions

Lord Gardiner of Kimble | 803 cc1751-4 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, in declaring my farming interests as set out in the register, it is clearly a privilege...

Lord Grantchester | 803 cc1753-7 (Link to this contribution)

I thank the Minister for his introduction to the Bill. I declare my interests in having a career ...


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Baroness Parminter | 803 cc1755-8 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords,

“God made the land for the people”.

I was reminded of that rallying cry fro...

Lord Kilclooney | 803 cc1758-9 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, living in rural Northern Ireland in the county of Armagh, better known as the garden of...

Bishop of St Albans | 803 cc1759-1760 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I am pleased that the long-anticipated Agriculture Bill has finally arrived in your Lor...

Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 803 cc1760-1 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I declare my interests in the Bill as published in the register. The Bill is one of the...

Baroness Young of Old Scone | 803 cc1761-2 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I declare my interests as chairman of the Woodland Trust, chairman of the Royal Veterin...

Lord Teverson | 803 cc1762-3 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I declare my interest as a co-chair of the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Local Nature Pa...

Baroness Browning | 803 cc1763-4 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I very much welcome the commitment given by my noble friend in his opening remarks to t...

Duke of Somerset | 803 cc1764-5 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I declare my farming interest, as in the register.

There are many substantive iss...

Earl of Shrewsbury | 803 cc1765-7 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I declare an interest as a member of the National Farmers Union, and my two sons are in...

Lord Whitty | 803 cc1767-8 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I welcome the somewhat belated arrival of the Bill in this House, and I welcome its gen...

Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle | 803 cc1768-9 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, we begin this debate at a time when the subject of the Bill is of acute urgency. That i...

Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist | 803 c1769 (Link to this contribution)

I remind the noble Baroness of the speaking limit.

Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle | 803 c1769 (Link to this contribution)

We need to stand up for what the people and the environment desperately need: a good, world-leadi...

Viscount Ridley | 803 cc1769-1770 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I declare an interest as the owner of a working farm in Northumberland. I support the B...

Baroness Humphreys | 803 cc1770-1 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord for outlining the provisions as they apply to Wales in this Bill...

Lord Carrington | 803 cc1771-2 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I declare my interests as farmer and landowner, as set out in the register. I broadly w...

Lord Colgrain | 803 cc1772-3 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I refer to my farming interests as set out in the register. There are a number of aspec...

Baroness Quin | 803 cc1773-4 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, this is an important Bill that aims to shape the future of farming in our country and p...

Earl of Caithness | 803 cc1774-5 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I thank my noble friend for his introduction of the Bill. First, I pay tribute to three...

Lord Carter of Coles | 803 cc1775-7 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, this is an important Bill and certainly a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reform the ...

Lord Tyler | 803 cc1777-8 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I have no interests to declare but for years I shadowed Agriculture Ministers Gummer an...

Lord Krebs | 803 cc1778-9 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, in Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift wrote of the King of Brobdingnag:

“And he g...

Earl of Lindsay | 803 cc1779-1780 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend for introducing the Bill. In the time available I will...

Lord Hain | 803 cc1780-1 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, in a nation where 50% of food is currently imported—fully 30% from the European Union—t...

Baroness Northover | 803 cc1781-2 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I thank the Minister for his undoubted commitment to this area. I speak as the daughter...

Baroness McIntosh of Pickering | 803 cc1782-3 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I declare my interests. I am delighted to have this opportunity to speak at the Second ...

Baroness Henig | 803 cc1783-4 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, we all agree that taking back control of our agricultural policy is a defining moment f...

Earl of Devon | 803 cc1784-5 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, it is a pleasure to be back in the Chamber for such a crucial debate. Thanks to many fo...

Duke of Wellington | 803 cc1785-6 (Link to this contribution)

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

It is because of...

Viscount Trenchard | 803 cc1786-7 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I thank my noble friend the Minister for introducing this important debate and I declar...

Lord Naseby | 803 cc1787-8 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I welcome the Minister to the Dispatch Box because I know that he is absolutely dedicat...

Lord Burnett | 803 cc1788-1790 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I declare my interests as set out in the register. I live in a rural area and for many ...

Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist | 803 c1790 (Link to this contribution)

Please can I remind the noble Lord of the speaking limit?

Lord Burnett | 803 c1790 (Link to this contribution)

We owe it to everyone in our country to ensure that we maintain an agricultural sector that conti...

Lord Cameron of Dillington | 803 cc1790-1 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I declare my farming and landowning interests.

I have a lot of good things to say...

Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts | 803 cc1791-2 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I thank the Minister for his very clear introduction. An advisory speaking time of four...

Baroness Mallalieu | 803 cc1792-3 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I remind the House of my interest as a small-scale upland sheep farmer and as president...

Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist | 803 c1793 (Link to this contribution)

Perhaps the noble Baroness could bring her remarks to a close.

Baroness Mallalieu | 803 c1793 (Link to this contribution)

I hope they will be devised by farmers, not just by recent environmental studies graduates sittin...

Baroness Finlay of Llandaff | 803 cc1793-4 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, this Bill is silent on pesticides and herbicides, yet they are toxic to insects and wil...

Lord Duncan of Springbank | 803 cc1794-5 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I broadly welcome the Bill, which is timely. I have several questions on which I would ...

Lord Liddle | 803 cc1795-6 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, this is major legislation and I am sure that the goal of having a better set of arrange...

Baroness Ludford | 803 cc1796-7 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I regret Brexit, but I support the targeting of financial support to farmers to secure ...

Baroness Worthington | 803 cc1797-8 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I am very grateful to be able to participate in this important Second Reading debate on...

Lord Dobbs | 803 cc1798-9 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I would first like to apologise to my noble friend on the Front Bench; there was a litt...

Lord Morris of Aberavon | 803 cc1799-1800 (Link to this contribution)

[Inaudible]—family farm in three counties of Wales, and in Suffolk.

My Lords, this Bill is ...

Lord Campbell of Pittenweem | 803 cc1800-1 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I declare an interest: my stepson is a farmer in Scotland. I also associate myself with...

Earl of Kinnoull | 803 c1801 (Link to this contribution)

Before the speech of the noble Lord, Lord Trees, I should advise the House that the noble Lord, L...

Lord Trees | 803 cc1801-2 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, this Bill is of colossal importance. It will involve a revolution in our countryside an...

Lord Faulkner of Worcester | 803 c1802 (Link to this contribution)

Welcome back, my Lords. We resume debate on the Second Reading of the Agriculture Bill. The first...

Duke of Montrose | 803 cc1802-3 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I must thank my noble friend the Minister and his officials for the time they have spen...

Lord Faulkner of Worcester | 803 c1803 (Link to this contribution)

I now call the noble Lord, Lord Judd.

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Lord Judd | 803 cc1803-4 (Link to this contribution)

My apologies for the disruption to services, but I am afraid that my computer went down completel...

Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist | 803 c1804 (Link to this contribution)

May I remind the noble Lord, Lord Judd, of the speaking time limit?

Lord Judd | 803 c1804 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, it would be sad if this potentially very significant Bill were to become, in the end, j...

Lord Kennedy of Southwark | 803 cc1804-5 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I am delighted to speak at Second Reading of the Agriculture Bill. As we have heard, it...

Lord Addington | 803 cc1805-6 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, we are having a very long and complicated discussion on a Bill that is a framework. It ...

Earl of Sandwich | 803 cc1806-8 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, first, I pay tribute to all the farmers who have suffered during this pandemic, coming ...

Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown | 803 cc1808-9 (Link to this contribution)

I draw noble Lords’ attention to my interests in the register and express my total disappointment...

Lord Jopling | 803 cc1809-1810 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I remind the House of my farming interests.

I must say that when I read the Bill ...

Lord Rosser | 803 cc1810-1 (Link to this contribution)

We have been in lockdown now for over 11 weeks, and most people have remained in their immediate ...

Lord Thomas of Gresford | 803 cc1811-2 (Link to this contribution)

I was a party to the 34th report of the Delegated Powers Committee in the last Session, reporting...

Lord Curry of Kirkharle | 803 cc1812-3 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, my interests are as listed on the record. I have farmed as a tenant in Northumberland a...

Lord Curry of Kirkharle | 803 c1813 (Link to this contribution)

In closing, I thank the Minister for his willingness to discuss the Bill in his usual open and fr...

Baroness Redfern | 803 cc1813-4 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I thank the Minister for his introduction. I welcome this Agriculture Bill, executing a...

Lord McConnell of Glenscorrodale | 803 cc1814-6 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I do not have any interests in the register in relation to agriculture these days, but ...

Lord German | 803 cc1816-7 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I echo the views of many speakers in this Second Reading debate: we need to ensure that...

Lord Vaux of Harrowden | 803 cc1817-8 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I declare my interest in beef and sheep farming in Scotland.

This is a framework ...

Lord Wigley | 803 cc1818-9 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I draw attention to my registered interests and to my membership of the Farmers’ Union ...

Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen | 803 cc1819-1820 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I welcome the Bill, but none of us can be expected to discuss it during a pandemic. Ind...

Lord Berkeley | 803 cc1820-1 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I am grateful for the opportunity to speak in this debate. The nearest I can come to ma...

Lord Greaves | 803 cc1821-2 (Link to this contribution)

This is a very important and huge Bill, with lots in it. I will concentrate on one tiny bit of it...

Earl of Erroll | 803 cc1822-3 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I have an interest to declare as I am now running my late wife’s farm until we get prob...

Baroness Rock | 803 cc1823-4 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I declare my farming interests as set out in the register.

This Bill is the most ...

Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville | 803 cc1824-6 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I too thank the Minister for his comprehensive introduction to the Bill and for his tim...

Baroness Jones of Whitchurch | 803 cc1826-9 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I thank the Minister for his introduction to the Bill and for the very helpful briefing...

Lord Gardiner of Kimble | 803 cc1827-1835 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, what an exceptional debate. It will be impossible for me to answer all the questions th...

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