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HANSARDNational Farmers’ UnionWe as a sovereign nation are negotiating trade deals with other countries. We recognise that some concerns have been expressed around the impact of new trade deals on our farming…02 Mar 2022HANSARDNational Farmers’ UnionI and my ministerial colleagues are keen to sustain jobs in agriculture in our uplands and make sure that the support incentives that we give to farmers are accessible to tenant…02 Mar 2022HANSARDNational Farmers’ UnionThe situation for pig farmers affected by this is serious. That is why we continue to work very closely with the industry. There was a perfect storm of a loss of exports to the…02 Mar 2022HANSARDNational Farmers’ UnionThe noble Baroness makes a very good point and it was well made in Minette Batters’s speech at the conference. I entirely agree with her that we do not want to create some sort of…02 Mar 2022HANSARDNational Farmers’ UnionI should explain to the House that this is not as part of ELMS. In addition to the support we are giving through the environmental land management scheme, which is ring-fencing…02 Mar 2022HANSARDClimate ChangeThe noble Baroness is entirely right in her assessment. The Dasgupta review and other work has indicated the impact that global warming will have on our ecosystems and economy.…01 Mar 2022HANSARDClimate ChangeMy Lords, the Government welcome the Climate Change Committee’s constructive assessment, which informed the UK Climate Change Risk Assessment 2022 , published in January. Since…01 Mar 2022HANSARDClimate ChangeThe noble Baroness is absolutely right. Climate change hurts the most vulnerable most. I have been in parts of world where I have seen the impact of climate change. I have seen…01 Mar 2022HANSARDClimate ChangeI will relay the noble Baroness’s suggestion to the Chancellor and he will consider it within the Government’s fiscal policies.01 Mar 2022HANSARDClimate ChangeI can absolutely do that. We have doubled our investment in flood defences to a record £5.2 billion. with some 2,000 new defence schemes over the next six years. This programme…01 Mar 2022HANSARDClimate ChangeNew tree planting is absolutely fundamental to our new ELMS and environmental policies. We have very bold targets for tree planting. However, my noble friend is absolutely right:…01 Mar 2022HANSARDClimate ChangeMy colleagues at Defra—my noble friend Lord Goldsmith, who led on this at COP, and my colleague Jo Churchill, who leads on climate change adaptation—and I would certainly be happy…01 Mar 2022HANSARDClimate ChangeThe Government have co-financed a number of research projects on this. It remains a technology that has potential. We are working to understand it, its viability and all its…01 Mar 2022HANSARDClimate ChangeThe noble Lord is very experienced in this whole area of adaptation. The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities has introduced a new requirement on overheating into…01 Mar 2022HANSARDClimate ChangeI entirely agree with my noble friend that it is predictable. It is another emerging technology and one that we are investing in with academia to try to see its development around…01 Mar 2022HANSARDClimate ChangeThe greatest stability in an unstable world is for us to decarbonise our economy as much as we can and become less reliant on other countries, or indeed on hydrocarbons, for our…01 Mar 2022HANSARDNational Food StrategyI will write to the noble Baroness with details of that. The food strategy is a comprehensive piece of work which looks at a lot of health-related matters. It is across…24 Feb 2022HANSARDNational Food StrategyIt is the Government’s intention to sustain a viable sugar beet industry. That involves not just farmers producing sugar beet but the four factories that we have in this country…24 Feb 2022HANSARDNational Food StrategyQuite to the contrary, we want people to eat good-quality, sustainably produced food with high welfare standards. The intention is to enable farmers to produce that successfully…24 Feb 2022HANSARDNational Food StrategyThe Government have consulted widely on this and there is significant evidence that banning junk food advertising at certain times of the day on certain channels does have an…24 Feb 2022