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HANSARDFarmers: ProductivityI am indeed concerned about farmers in Scotland, but that is because they are not benefiting from the revolution in agricultural support that we are undertaking in this country,…09 Dec 2021HANSARDFarmers: ProductivityThe fund is broad, and we are willing to look at all sorts of programmes within it. Some great solutions could include new livestock feeds that might reduce methane emissions,…09 Dec 2021HANSARDFarmers: ProductivityThere is great potential for farmers to continue to increase productivity in an environmentally sustainable way. Last month we launched the farming investment fund, which will…09 Dec 2021HANSARDFood and Drink ExportersI am sure the whole House will join me in welcoming the news that the US market is reopening its doors to UK lamb after two decades of restrictions. We want people at home and…09 Dec 2021HANSARD Food and Drink: UK EconomyThank you very much, Mr Davies. I am sorry you have had to cope with so many interruptions for votes during the debate. I join everyone in thanking my hon. Friend the Member for…01 Dec 2021HANSARD Food and Drink: UK Economyindicated assent.01 Dec 2021HANSARDUK-EU Fisheries AllocationsI will make progress, if I may, because I have an awful lot of questions to answer and I want to leave time for the hon. Member for Strangford to sum up. As all the experts in the…30 Nov 2021HANSARDUK-EU Fisheries AllocationsI join others in thanking the hon. Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon) for securing the debate and for making a rather lyrical speech on the current situation in Northern Ireland.…30 Nov 2021HANSARDUK-EU Fisheries AllocationsI am absolutely not going to agree on my feet at this point who should be getting that money, but I fully expect all hon. Members in this Chamber to be putting in their bids with…30 Nov 2021HANSARDUK-EU Fisheries AllocationsI will not, because the hon. Member for Strangford is about to close the debate. The additional quota uplift provided for in the TCA has been apportioned among nations using a…30 Nov 2021HANSARDUK-EU Fisheries AllocationsI would be delighted. We have discussed the case in the past, but I would be delighted to meet the right hon. Gentleman to discuss it again. Moving on to exports, which the hon.…30 Nov 2021HANSARDDraft Eggs (England) Regulations 2021No, we certainly should not. If we pass this SI, APHA will continue to undertake risk assessment checks, both on domestic and imported goods. Other checks happen already, such as…22 Nov 2021HANSARDDraft Eggs (England) Regulations 2021I beg to move, That the Committee has considered the draft Eggs (England) Regulations 2021. The draft regulations were laid—that is the end of my jokes—before this House on 19…22 Nov 2021HANSARDDraft Eggs (England) Regulations 2021I am very happy to respond to the hon. Gentleman’s points. However, I do not currently know the exact number of eggs that are shipped to Northern Ireland, so I am happy to write…22 Nov 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill (Fifth sitting)I would like to thank my hon. Friend the Member for Bosworth—and for Twycross zoo, if I may put it that way—for his intervention. I am thrilled about the recent grant from the…18 Nov 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill (Fifth sitting)I beg to move amendment 54, in clause 48, page 31, line 6, leave out from “authority”” to end of line 15 and insert “, in relation to a power to make provision, means— (a) the…18 Nov 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill (Fifth sitting)The amendments in this group are technical and concerned with the way in which Scottish and Welsh Ministers may make regulations under the Bill. Amendment 54 amends clause 48 to…18 Nov 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill (Fifth sitting)This clause is no longer necessary as it has been replaced by new clause 3, which brings all the regulation-making powers in the Bill into a single new clause. I ask the Committee…18 Nov 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill (Fifth sitting)Clause 50 provides a general power for the Secretary of State to make any necessary changes to legislation that are consequential on any provisions included in the Bill. Question…18 Nov 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill (Fifth sitting)I beg to move amendment 62, in clause 51, page 32, line 36, at end insert— “() section (Animal Welfare Act 2006: minor amendments) comes into force on such day as the appropriate…18 Nov 2021