Agriculture Bill

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The noble Lord, Lord Marlesford, has withdrawn, so I now call the noble Lord, Lord Naseby.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The noble Earl, Lord Caithness, has withdrawn, so I now call the noble Baroness, Lady Bakewell of...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...

Can I move it?

No, you cannot.

I can.

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—