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HANSARD Land Use Change: Food SecurityI was coming to that. I am happy to get across my view of what this should be. The food strategy that we published in July makes clear that we will act to ensure that our food…18 Nov 2025HANSARD Land Use Change: Food SecurityOf course it will be published, and it will be published this year. I cannot think of any Government who produce large reports on matters of interest in the week before the…18 Nov 2025HANSARD Land Use Change: Food SecurityOf course it will be published.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 2025HANSARD Land Use Change: Food SecurityHon. Lady.18 Nov 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 SecurityIt is a great pleasure to respond to this debate with you in the Chair, Dr Murrison—I hope you are warmer than I am, having sat in what is quite a cold room for the entire debate.…18 Nov 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsWe will publish the farming road map and the Batters review, and then talk about a strategy for making farming more productive, profitable and sustainable for the next generation.…13 Nov 2025HANSARDSolar Farms: Food SecurityIt sounds as though the shadow Minister thinks that the entirety of agricultural land will be covered in solar. I have already said that it will be 0.4% by 2030, and it provides…13 Nov 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsAgain, we understand the pressures that farmers are under. We want to work on creating a productive, profitable and sustainable farming sector, and we will do so.13 Nov 2025HANSARDFarrowing Crates and CagesWe are always ready to consider how we can bring about the policies that will be set out in the animal welfare strategy when we publish it. We are pragmatic about how we can shift…13 Nov 2025HANSARDFarrowing Crates and CagesWe remain firmly committed to maintaining and improving animal welfare, and will work closely with the farming sector to deliver high standards. The use of cages and other close…13 Nov 2025HANSARDFarrowing Crates and CagesIt is important to remember that 50% of the national sow breeding herd live freely and are not kept in these kinds of cage systems at all, which I think shows the way forward. It…13 Nov 2025HANSARDSolar Farms: Food SecurityOnly 0.1% of land is used for solar, and half of the agricultural land used for generating solar power is still producing food. Solar farms are not a risk to food security.…13 Nov 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsWe are fully supportive of collaboration between industry and higher and further education to strengthen skills in the agrifood sector. I will be visiting Harper Adams; that visit…13 Nov 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsNo, it is not the family farm tax. The right hon. Gentleman should be patient and wait to see our plan for the future of farming.13 Nov 2025HANSARDSolar Farms: Food SecurityA very small area of land is used by solar farms—as I said before, it is 0.1% of the UK’s total land area. The clean power commitment 2030 will take that up to 0.4%. Our land use…13 Nov 2025HANSARD Fresh and Nutritious Food: Inequality of AccessToday’s debate is about those who do not have practical access to any such choice, because there simply is nowhere for them to go and buy it. The national child measurement…05 Nov 2025HANSARD Fresh and Nutritious Food: Inequality of AccessOf course, but I have very little time to answer some of these points.05 Nov 2025HANSARD Fresh and Nutritious Food: Inequality of AccessIt is a great pleasure to serve with you in the Chair, Mr Mundell. I start by congratulating my hon. Friend the Member for Glasgow South (Gordon McKee) on securing this debate,…05 Nov 2025