Agriculture Bill

Moved by

The Earl of Dundee

1: Clause 1, page 2, line 6, leave out “may” and insert “...

My Lords, Amendment 1 is connected to Amendment 74, also in my name. Both amendments address the ...

I shall have to move the amendment on the noble Earl’s behalf. I beg to move Amendment 1.

My Lords, I have attached my name to Amendment 1 and shall speak also to a number of other amendm...

My Lords, I shall speak to my Amendment 67 and I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Bennett, for her ...

My Lords, I have a number of amendments in this group. Amendments 5, 17 and 89 question the diffe...

My Lords, in speaking to my three amendments, I take this opportunity to thank the Minister, the ...

My Lords, I am glad to follow the noble Baroness, whose closing remarks on pasture-fed livestock ...

I call the noble Earl, Lord Dundee. We lost the connection earlier, but I understand that we can ...

Thank you. I will resume at the point where I was cut off.

In itself, Clause 1 is evidence ...

My Lords, I echo the words of the noble Baroness, Lady McIntosh, in congratulating the Minister a...

My Lords, there has already been some discussion which hinges on the question: what is the Bill a...

My Lords, I support Amendments 1 and 37. I understand what the noble Earl, Lord Dundee, said abou...

My Lords, I will speak to my Amendment 79; I thank the noble Lord, Lord Greaves, for his support....

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to be here today and to contribute to a debate on this wide-rang...

My Lords, I will pick up a theme started by the noble Earl, Lord Devon, when he mentioned the imp...

I am happy to follow the noble Earl, Lord Caithness. I certainly identify with his comments on th...

My Lords, it is always a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Wigley. I will speak to my own A...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Jones, and I certainly support her ...

My Lords, I intend to be brief, as requested. I am very proud to be a member of the excellent org...

I speak in support of Amendment 66, in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Wigley. If the UK had not...

My Lords, I declare my interest as a Suffolk farmer. It must be a matter of real regret that the ...

The noble Lord, Lord Wigley, has described why it is essential that, although agriculture is devo...

Rather unusually, my Lords, I speak not to support an amendment but to oppose some. I live in Dev...

My Lords, I asked to intervene on this group primarily to make a few general points, which relate...

My Lords, I rise to comment briefly on and support three amendments. I should declare my agricult...

My Lords, I would like to make a general point about this group. We have a considerable number of...

My Lords, I support Amendments 37 and 78. A great many noble Lords from all sides of the House ha...

My Lords, I wish to add to the remarks made by one or two participants about being balloted out o...

My Lords, I want to pick up where the noble Lord, Lord Empey, has just left off on the hugely imp...

I will speak to Amendment 83 to Clause 1, in particular the work that my noble friend Lord Greave...

My Lords, as one of the silenced ones at Second Reading, I must begin by declaring my interests i...

My Lords, my interests, all unremunerated so far as they are relevant to the Bill, are listed in ...

My Lords, I will speak briefly on Amendments 5, 17 and 27, in the name of my noble friend Lord Lu...

My Lords, I will say a few words in support of Amendment 78. I come from a long line of sheep far...

My Lords, in the new farming environment there will be many challenges, which undoubtedly will af...

My Lords, I have enormous sympathy for my noble friend on the Front Bench. This debate is all-emb...

My Lords, the noble Earl, Lord Dundee, when opening the debate, observed that Clause 1 gives Mini...

My Lords, I am very pleased to be back in the Chamber after nearly 15 weeks, and to reflect on wh...

My Lords, I am delighted to follow the noble Lord, Lord Blunkett, and strongly endorse his remark...

My Lords, we have engaged in a long and wide-ranging debate on part of the first clause of this B...

I am grateful to all noble Lords who have spoken on their amendments today. We have indeed had a ...

My Lords, this has quite clearly been an extensive debate; it has been most rewarding for me to h...

My Lords, I have received requests from a number of noble Lords to speak after the Minister: the ...

My Lords, I apologise for keeping us a little longer on this group of amendments, but I would not...

My Lords, I want to make sure I get this right. I referred to the 2018 regulations for England ab...

I thank the Minister for his very positive response to my amendment, which I never doubted he wou...

I am most grateful to the noble Lord. I did not have an opportunity to flesh out the tests and tr...

I thank the Minister for his extensive reply. I was particularly pleased that he mentioned the sh...

I am most grateful to the noble Lord. Clearly, rural-proofing means that anything we do across Wh...

My Lords, I join other noble Lords in welcoming and supporting the Bill, and I thank the Minister...

My Lords, we now come to the group beginning with Amendment 2. I remind noble Lords that anyone w...

Moved by

Lord Addington

2: Clause 1, page 2, line 7, after “purposes” insert “to thos...

My Lords, the origins of this amendment are fairly straightforward. As we go through this Bill, w...

My Lords, I will speak to three amendments in my name in this group and thank the noble Baronesse...

My Lords, I will speak to two amendments I have tabled in this group, namely Amendments 118 and 1...

My Lords, I shall speak to my Amendments 108 and 109. I am looking for two reassurances from the ...

My Lords, I apologise for not taking part in the Second Reading of the Bill due to logistical iss...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Grey-Thompson. I was also excluded ...

The amendments I have tabled in this group largely go to the same issue which the noble Baronesse...

I have just been told that because I was not here at the beginning of this group, I cannot speak....

My Lords, I support Amendment 106 in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady McIntosh of Pickering. ...

In introducing the amendment, the noble Lord, Lord Addington, said that farmers would have to get...

My Amendment 94, which I will speak to solely, addresses a central weakness in the Bill, identifi...

My Lords, I declare my farming and land-owning interests, as set out in the register, in particul...

My Lords, this is my first opportunity to speak on this Bill, as unfortunately I did not make the...

My Lords, I was delighted by what the Minister had to say about native breeds. None the less, the...

My Lords, I apologise that I was not able to speak at Second Reading; I was not sworn in to your ...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Rooker. He was a distinguished Farming ...

My Lords, I am no expert on agricultural questions but, as a Cumbria county councillor, I am deep...

I want to follow on closely from what the noble Lord, Lord Liddle, was saying. I believe that the...

My Lords, I am a bit puzzled as to the intentions of the noble Lord, Lord Addington, and the nobl...

My Lords, I am afraid that I want to take a different position from several noble Lords who have ...

I understand that the noble Baroness, Lady Mallalieu, has scratched, so I now call the noble Lord...

My Lords, one theme that has come up today has been the theme of definition. In the last group, t...

I call the noble Lord, Lord Naseby. We cannot hear him so we will move on to the noble Lord, Lord...

My Lords, I will speak briefly to Amendment 103, the impact of which would be to limit the range ...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 106, which I support in spirit. It is good to see my noble fr...

My Lords, forgive me if I turn off the video, because my signal is very poor. I declare my intere...

My Lords, I will first say that I strongly support Amendment 118 in the name of the noble Barones...

My Lords, after the noble Lord, Lord Judd, speaks, I will call the noble Lord, Lord Naseby, again...

My Lords, with the first group of amendments, we did the easy bit: we discussed the generalities....

My Lords, I return to the basic amendment for this group from the noble Lord, Lord Addington, and...

I regret that we have been unable to reconnect with the noble Lord, Lord Naseby, so I call the no...

My Lords, this group of amendments moves us to the question of what type of land will qualify for...

I thank all Peers who have tabled their amendments in this group. At the start of each day in Com...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords for what again has been an interesting debate which has taken u...

My Lords, I have received one request to speak after the Minister. I call the noble Lord, Lord Gr...

I rise merely to press the Minister on his statements around the different levels of tiers and ho...

Clearly, we know that there are 80,000-plus claimants under the BPS at the moment. Obviously, the...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for his usual courteous and informed reply. However, the point tha...

My Lords, we now come to the group beginning with Amendment 6. I remind noble Lords that anyone w...

Moved by

Lord Addington

6: Clause 1, page 2, line 9, at end insert “and people’s acce...

My Lords, we come to a rather more honed group of amendments. We are talking about access, inspir...

My Lords, like some other noble Lords, I fell victim to the Second Reading cull. Had I been able ...

Many of the amendments to which I have added my name cover issues around water. I welcome the com...

My Lords, I have added my name to Amendments 6 and 18 and I am very happy to support the noble Lo...

My Lords, yes, there have been fires on Pennine moors during the hot weather and lockdown, almost...

My Lords, the amendments in this group are crucial to the success of this Bill—or at least, the s...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 100 in my name. I welcome the opportunity to take part in scr...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Addington, is to be congratulated on this group of amendments. The...

My Lords, I am amazed to hear that there were 11 days in Committee for the then CROW Bill and we ...

My Lords, I support the general aim of Clause 1 to move to a system of public payments for public...

My Lords, I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Addington, the noble Baroness, Lady Grey-Thompson, ...

My Lords, I declare my interests, as on the register. I too regret that I was unable to participa...

My Lords, the Government deserve congratulations for bringing forward this Agriculture Bill. It o...

We have pressures on our time, so will the noble Lord draw his comments to a close?

I was going to do that. We have 19 million visitors. In order to accommodate them, there need to ...

My Lords, I shall be brief as I do not have amendments in this little group. I congratulate the n...

My Lords, I rise to support the amendment and to congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Addington. As ...

My Lords, first, how nice it is to see the noble Lord, Lord Rooker, back with us and participatin...

My Lords, to begin, I take my reference point from the Book of Genesis, where Adam and Eve were t...

I want to begin by saying, “There endeth the lesson”. Having sat here now for well over seven hou...

My Lords, I will speak in support of Amendments 6, 9, 98 and 111 in this group. For many people, ...

My Lords, whilst I can support reasonable extension to public access, as I said earlier it is ind...

My Lords, I start by asking my noble friend the Minister whether, in his mind, the definition in ...

My Lords, this group of amendments is primarily about financial assistance being provided for pub...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Addington, and the many other noble Lords who spo...

My Lords, I am grateful to all noble Lords. This has been an important debate. When preparing for...

My Lords, I have received no requests to speak after the Minister, so I call the noble Lord, Lord...

My Lords, the Minister has done his usual thing of being thorough and charming at the same time—a...