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HANSARDAgricultural and Business Property Relief: Food PricesI do not think that the hon. Member’s characterisation of the Prime Minister’s remarks to the Liaison Committee is entirely accurate, but I am working on introducing and making…18 Dec 2025HANSARDAgricultural and Business Property Relief: Food PricesI am puzzled by the hon. Lady’s view that the issues she talks about are somehow having a bad effect on food prices, since yesterday’s figures demonstrate that there has been a…18 Dec 2025HANSARDDEFRA Policies: Impact on Farming CommunitiesWhile the Conservatives failed to spend £300 million of the farming budget, we are backing farmers with the largest nature-friendly budget in history, and 50,000 farm businesses…18 Dec 2025HANSARDDEFRA Policies: Impact on Farming CommunitiesI meet farmers all the time, and I intend to spend the early part of next year, and hopefully many years thereafter, continuing to do so.18 Dec 2025HANSARDSupport for Dairy FarmersWe have a close relationship with the Home Office, and I have old contacts there too. I promise that we keep a close eye on these things and look at what we can do about emerging…18 Dec 2025HANSARDDEFRA Policies: Impact on Farming CommunitiesI pay tribute to the farmers in my hon. Friend’s constituency in the awful situation they face. We are closely monitoring the outbreak and have taken action to eradicate disease…18 Dec 2025HANSARDDEFRA Policies: Impact on Farming CommunitiesThis is a matter for the University of Cambridge, but having visited the veterinary school at Harper Adams University, I am all too aware—as clearly the hon. Gentleman is—of the…18 Dec 2025HANSARDAgricultural and Business Property Relief: Food PricesModelling has shown that food prices are driven by the interaction of domestic and international considerations, including farm gate prices, import prices and exchange rates.…18 Dec 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsThat is absolutely true. Stepping forward with confidence into the future using new agritech techniques, diversifying farm income and seeing what we can do in partnership with the…18 Dec 2025HANSARDSupport for Dairy FarmersThe global glut of milk has led to instability in price, which is difficult as many of our food prices are reliant on global markets. We have put in place the Fair Dealing…18 Dec 2025HANSARDSupport for Dairy FarmersI understand and empathise with the experience of the hon. Lady’s constituent. A global glut of milk is driving prices down; prices had gone up because there was an undersupply,…18 Dec 2025HANSARD Animal Welfare StrategyYou won’t be in the kitchen, then?18 Dec 2025HANSARDSugar Beet ContractsAs I may not get another chance, may I take this opportunity to wish you, and all Members and House staff, a happy Christmas, Mr Speaker? We are committed to promoting fairness…18 Dec 2025HANSARDFishing Opportunities Agreement 2026The UK has reached agreement with the EU, Norway and other coastal states on catch opportunities for shared stocks for 2026. Across negotiations so far, the UK has secured…10 Dec 2025HANSARDDraft Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging and Packaging Waste) (Amendment) Regulations 2025We are trying to take the scheme forward in a positive, iterative way. The consultation is not kicking the can down the road; it is recycling the can to see what we can do to…09 Dec 2025HANSARDDraft Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging and Packaging Waste) (Amendment) Regulations 2025I am happy to address some of the points that have been raised. I welcome that the official Opposition are broadly supportive of this system, and I will come to their questions in…09 Dec 2025HANSARDDraft Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging and Packaging Waste) (Amendment) Regulations 2025I beg to move, That the Committee has considered the draft Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging and Packaging Waste) (Amendment) Regulations 2025. It is a great pleasure…09 Dec 2025HANSARDDraft Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging and Packaging Waste) (Amendment) Regulations 2025I know that the responsible Minister, my hon. Friend the Member for Coventry East, has met the industry, and that workshops have been held over recent weeks to urgently and…09 Dec 2025HANSARD Land Use Change: Food SecurityI do not think that the lack of appearance of Baroness Batters’s report has stopped anyone lobbying the Chancellor; lobbying is happening outside even as we speak.18 Nov 2025HANSARD Land Use Change: Food SecurityIn the small amount of time left to me before the end of the debate, it is hard for me to answer the hon. Gentleman. It is not up to me to take decisions about local planning…18 Nov 2025