Agriculture Bill

My Lords,

“God made the land for the people”.

I was reminded of that rallying cry fro...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

There are many substantive iss...

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

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

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

I remind the noble Baroness of the speaking limit.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“And he g...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It is because of...

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

Lord Judd. No? Lord Naseby.

3.04 pm

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

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

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

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

My Lords, I declare my farming and landowning interests.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

My Lords, this Bill is ...

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

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

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

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

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

I now call the noble Lord, Lord Judd.

4.36 pm

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I remind the noble Lord of the speaking time.

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

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

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

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

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

This is a framework ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

This Bill is the most ...

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

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

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