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HANSARDEU SPS Agreement1. What his Department’s priorities are in negotiations with the EU on a sanitary and phytosanitary agreement.04 Dec 2025HANSARDEU SPS AgreementI am sure we all understand the reasons for the Paymaster General’s absence today, although I am less clear on his reasons for being absent from the Environment, Food and Rural…04 Dec 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsT4. May I take the Security Minister back to the subject of the security of undersea cables? He may know that in Shetland we have had two catastrophic breakages this year as a…04 Dec 2025HANSARD Pension Schemes BillI have several BP pensioners, with BP obviously having operated the Sullom Voe terminal in Shetland for many years. The injustice they suffered, which left them with a pension…03 Dec 2025HANSARD Business of the HouseReaching a sanitary and phytosanitary agreement with the European Union is one of the most significant developments that we are likely to see for farmers and other food producers.…27 Nov 2025HANSARDGaza: Humanitarian ObligationsI commend the hon. Lady, who is making a very important contribution. This is looking to the medium and long term; but, candidly, if there is to be any civic infrastructure in…24 Nov 2025HANSARDSpecialist Manufacturing Sector: Regional EconomiesI agree with everything that the hon. Gentleman is saying, but may I encourage him to go one step upstream and look at some of the wider policy context? If we are to regrow our…19 Nov 2025HANSARDFarming Sector: US Trading Relationship13. What recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on the potential impact of the trading relationship with the US on the…30 Oct 2025HANSARDFarming Sector: US Trading RelationshipThe Secretary of State is right that any threat of an imminent increase in US beef imports in particular is clearly not the problem, but it has not gone away either. The US…30 Oct 2025HANSARD Fishing and Coastal Growth FundI welcome the Minister to her new position. I have to say, though, if ever there were an illustration of the scale of the challenge facing Ministers in turning around the…23 Oct 2025HANSARDDevolution in ScotlandNo, this is about the seabed.22 Oct 2025HANSARDDevolution in ScotlandI agree with what the hon. Gentleman is saying. I was struck by what the Chair of the Scottish Affairs Committee, the hon. Member for Glasgow West (Patricia Ferguson), said about…22 Oct 2025HANSARDDevolution in ScotlandThe hon. Gentleman will have heard other people make the point about that journey and the need for it to go from the Scottish Parliament down to communities. One of the most…22 Oct 2025HANSARDDevolution in ScotlandWhat the hon. Gentleman seems to be saying is that Shetland could not control our own seabed. Does he maybe think we are too wee and too poor for that?22 Oct 2025HANSARD Mandatory Digital IDI agree with most of the hon. Gentleman’s conclusions. Does he agree that, in hindsight, the Scottish Government’s use of a covid passport was a mistake, especially in a way that…21 Oct 2025HANSARD Business of the HouseFirst, I associate myself with the comments about Ming Campbell. Ming was a friend and mentor to me for 42 years, and I wanted to take part in the tributes, but I was with the…16 Oct 2025HANSARDAmbassador to the United StatesDoes the right hon. Lady agree that if we are to salvage anything positive from this whole sorry episode, it must be that in the future, Parliament, through the Select Committees,…16 Sept 2025HANSARD Biosecurity at the Border: Britain’s Illegal Meat CrisisI thank the Backbench Business Committee for allocating time for me to make the statement, which marks the publication of the third report by our Committee in this Parliament. Our…11 Sept 2025HANSARD Biosecurity at the Border: Britain’s Illegal Meat CrisisEven as things currently stand, we have a mental health crisis in the farming industry. We know from our own personal community experience from 2001 that that was a moment of…11 Sept 2025HANSARD Biosecurity at the Border: Britain’s Illegal Meat CrisisObviously, the question of legal commercial imports is slightly different in its operation from what we are bringing to the House’s attention today, but I think we have to look at…11 Sept 2025