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HANSARD Rural CommunitiesMy right hon. Friend and county neighbour of course understands all the challenges facing our rural communities, and I think we are all wondering why, in the midst of a cost of…07 Jan 2026HANSARDAgricultural Property Relief and Business Property Relief(Urgent Question): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if she will make a statement on the changes to agricultural property relief and business property relief.05 Jan 2026HANSARDAgricultural Property Relief and Business Property ReliefThank you, Mr Speaker, for granting this first urgent question of 2026—and what a way to open the new year, with yet another Government U-turn. But where is the Chancellor of the…05 Jan 2026HANSARDAgricultural and Business Property Relief: Food PricesOn Monday, the Prime Minister admitted that farmers are considering taking their own lives for fear of the family farm tax—a tax that he described as a “sensible reform”. The next…18 Dec 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsMay I wish you, Mr Speaker, the House staff and Members across the House a very merry Christmas? I thank the farmers, the food producers, and the pubs, restaurants, hotels and…18 Dec 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsThis is a quick question. Does the Secretary of State think that she is capable of organising a knees-up in a brewery this Christmas?18 Dec 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI welcome the right hon. Lady and the Minister with responsibility for farming to their new roles. We Conservative Members genuinely wish them well in this food and farming…13 Nov 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI am not making political points; I am telling the right hon. Lady the reality of her policy. Farmers will have heard no answer, no reason and no understanding. It is shameful.…13 Nov 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsMay I join the Secretary of State and everyone across the Chamber in thanking the fire services, farmers and rural communities for their hard work and bravery in tackling the…04 Sept 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI hate to break it to the Secretary of State, but I suspect I have spoken to far more farmers than he has in the past 12 months. They do not believe a word he says, because he…04 Sept 2025HANSARDThames Water(Urgent Question) : To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if he will make a statement on Thames Water’s financial situation.03 Jun 2025HANSARDThames WaterThank you, Mr Speaker, for granting this urgent question. May I begin by correcting the Secretary of State? When he refers to private sector investment, he is in fact referring to…03 Jun 2025HANSARDThames WaterOn a point of order, Mr Speaker.03 Jun 2025HANSARDThames Waterindicated dissent.03 Jun 2025HANSARDThames WaterIt is just to correct the record, Mr Speaker. The Secretary of State has given the impression in his answers—without, I am sure, intending to—that the investigations of which he…03 Jun 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsAs we mark the 80th anniversary of victory in Europe, I remember the great role that my constituency played, including 617 Squadron, flying from RAF Woodhall Spa; we must also…08 May 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI am sorry, Mr Speaker, but I am simply confronting the Secretary of State with the realities of his policy. Another policy is distressing farmers and other people: the removal of…08 May 2025HANSARDSewageI am still answering the hon. Lady’s first intervention. Of course, she is relying on the data—that is exactly the point. Again, I come back to the point—I am trying to be…23 Apr 2025HANSARDSewageI am very happy to give way if the hon. Lady is going to support and carry on our work—delighted, in fact.23 Apr 2025HANSARDSewageI respect the fact that this is the Liberal Democrats’ Opposition day debate, so I have been cutting parts out of my speech. I therefore hope the House will forgive me if I do not…23 Apr 2025