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HANSARDEngagementsThat is a lie!05 Mar 2025HANSARDEngagementsWithdrawn.05 Mar 2025HANSARDInheritance Tax Relief: FarmsYou voted for this policy.10 Feb 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe head of the Dover Port Health Authority warned the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee this week that if funding is not secured with seven weeks, food security…06 Feb 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI do not think the Secretary of State either understood my question or knows the answer, because I asked him when he will confirm the funding. Compare this relaxed approach with…06 Feb 2025HANSARD Avian Influenza(Urgent Question): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if he will make a statement on avian influenza.30 Jan 2025HANSARD Avian InfluenzaThis is a very difficult time for birdkeepers and farmers, particularly those whose birds have died or been culled, and all those who have had to upend their flocks and move them…30 Jan 2025HANSARD Women’s Health StrategyOn a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. On this incredibly important issue of the women’s health strategy, and the fact that the word “woman” has been excluded from the updated…30 Jan 2025HANSARD Water (Special Measures) Bill [Lords]If the hon. Gentleman, as a Back-Bench MP, is presuming to tell a regulator with criminal powers how to investigate and prosecute companies or indeed any defendants, we need to be…28 Jan 2025HANSARD Water (Special Measures) Bill [Lords]I thank everyone who has scrutinised and worked on the Bill in both Houses, including the shadow Minister, my hon. Friend the Member for Epping Forest (Dr Hudson), our very…28 Jan 2025HANSARD Water (Special Measures) Bill [Lords]I will give way, with great interest.28 Jan 2025HANSARD Water (Special Measures) Bill [Lords]I do love being mansplained to by Labour Back Benchers. I suppose it is part of the Labour party’s women problem. The hon. Gentleman is now throwing his thumbs up at me—goodness…28 Jan 2025HANSARD Water (Special Measures) Bill [Lords]I will not, because I want to allow others to speak. The Government have also sadly failed to recognise the importance of chalk streams, refusing to confirm the continuation of…28 Jan 2025HANSARD Agricultural Property ReliefSupermarkets!28 Jan 2025HANSARD Agricultural and Business Property Reliefs: OBR CostingTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment she has made of the Office for Budget Responsibility’s supplementary forecast information release on the costing of changes…23 Jan 2025HANSARD Agricultural and Business Property Reliefs: OBR CostingHaving inherited the fastest-growing economy in the G7, the Chancellor’s Budget has led to the highest borrowing costs since the pandemic, growth flatlining, business confidence…23 Jan 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI wish a merry Christmas to everyone in the House, and also to everyone in our farming, food, hospitality and water sectors. But not everyone will be able to celebrate Christmas.…19 Dec 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsHow heartless and how extraordinary that the Secretary of State is more discomfited by being presented with the facts of the consequences of his policy than the reality of what…19 Dec 2024HANSARD Water (Special Measures) Bill [Lords]Particularly as the hon. Gentleman was talking about effluent, which is not respectful. I know that he is capable of much greater advocacy than that. I am afraid that I will take…16 Dec 2024HANSARD Water (Special Measures) Bill [Lords]I welcome the opportunity to debate the vital issue of water and how this Bill may be improved. The Secretary of State will be relieved to hear that I intend to focus on water…16 Dec 2024