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Order, order. Motion for an unopposed return. Questions to the | :00:18. | :00:27. | |
secretary of state for environment, food and rural affairs. | :00:28. | :00:33. | |
Mr Speaker, we have put in place a range of measures to support our | :00:34. | :00:39. | |
farmers and help build their resilience. Government investment in | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
flood defence improvement whll provide better protection for 1 | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
million acres of agricultur`l land. We are investing in innovathon | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
skills and capital items to boost the sector's relic resilience and we | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
are working to introduce dahry futures markets to help farlers | :00:55. | :01:01. | |
manage volatility. Volatility in global market and weather conditions | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
can often see Farmer's incole strategy decline. Can my honourable | :01:05. | :01:13. | |
friend expend what steps thd government is taking to help farmers | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
manage this risk? We have acted to deal with this problem. Frol April | :01:18. | :01:23. | |
this year, the government extended tax averaging for farmers to | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
five-year from the previous of two years, so that they could bdtter | :01:27. | :01:33. | |
offset good years against b`d ears. In addition, HMRC have got ` number | :01:34. | :01:39. | |
of schemes meaning they show forbearance to farmers who `re | :01:40. | :01:46. | |
suffering cash flow difficulties. Thank you, Mr Speaker. 11 ydars ago | :01:47. | :01:52. | |
this morning, terrorist att`cks were unleashed on our city. We p`y our | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
respects today. As an environmentalist and someond who has | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
campaigned in the aftermath of the floods and a lover of the great | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
outdoors, I am proud to be representing Labour as Shadow | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
Secretary of State for environment, food and rural affairs. Mr Speaker, | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
many farming businesses are dependent on trade with the EU. | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
Following the outcome of thd referendum, the resilience of | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
farming will be keenly testdd. What immediate steps has the Secretary of | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
State is taken to ensure th`t trade relations with EU partners remain | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
unchanged for the city of the future? -- for the foreseeable | :02:29. | :02:34. | |
future? I begin by welcoming the honourable lady and her colleagues | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
to the front bench in this very diverse department that we have in | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
Defra and I welcome her to this place and associate with her | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
comments you made around thd terrorist attacks. In terms of the | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
next steps with trade following the decision to leave the EU, wd are | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
having a number of meetings with officials to do some planning, we | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
have a meeting today to havd these discussions. It will be a m`tter for | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
the new Prime Minister and the Cabinet that they put in pl`ce. But | :03:04. | :03:06. | |
some early thinking and planning work is going on across govdrnment. | :03:07. | :03:13. | |
Mr Speaker, I am concerned that resilience hasn't been planned for | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
by the Minister in advance of the EU referendum. Because trade and | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
regulations around food and farming is linked to the EU more th`n in any | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
other sector. Yet, this govdrnment's cuts to Defra up to 2020 will total | :03:28. | :03:35. | |
of 57% reduction to its budget. In light of this, can the minister | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
explain how his department will have the capacity to analyse the impact | :03:40. | :03:46. | |
the impact of the EU referendum build resilience and negoti`te the | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
way forward? For the time bding we remain in the European Union and all | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
existing arrangements continue. It is only what we have concluded | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
negotiations and left the Etropean Union that we will put future | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
measures in place. In terms of capacity in the civil service, | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
obviously there will be somd areas and some EU dossiers that h`ve a | :04:09. | :04:14. | |
long-term horizon where we will perhaps be less engaged and less | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
involved, and that will fred up the capacity to do some of the planning | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
we have to do on domestic policy. I would like to record my thanks to | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
the honourable member for Colchester for providing us all with a taste of | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
Colchester yesterday. One of his constituents, a soft fruit farmer, | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
emphasised his concerns abott the own resilience, his dependent upon | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
EU migrant labour. Other pl`ns in place to ensure farms off the - are | :04:42. | :04:51. | |
supported if there is a redtction in migrant numbers? I worked in the | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
soft fruit industry and unf`miliar with the challenges that certain -- | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
and I am familiar with the challenge that sector face when it coles to | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
seasonal labour. The decision will be up to the new Prime Minister and | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
a new cabinet. But I would say that there are models that we have had in | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
recent years, such as the sdasonal agricultural worker schemes, which | :05:14. | :05:15. | |
means that there are ways that you can make sure the Labour is there | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
when you require it. I tabldd five written questions in the past week | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
asking what impact, what assessment had been made on the impact of | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
Brexit on a whole range of Defra related areas from air pollttion, | :05:30. | :05:35. | |
waste, water, rural payments, fisheries, food standards, food | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
Stacey. I got one answer back. It basically said everything rdmains in | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
place and the negotiations `re at the future five Prime Minister. | :05:45. | :05:51. | |
Almost every department is `ffected by Brexit and I'm not reasstred that | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
that planning work is startdd. I disagree with the honourabld lady. | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
There was an assessment put forward by the government about the | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
potential impacts of leaving the European Union, that was hotly | :06:06. | :06:07. | |
debated during the referendtm. Ultimately the British publhc have | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
made an assessment about wh`t they want to do. The assessment hs they | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
wanted EU leave the European Union and now the -- they wanted to leave | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
the European Union and now the governor must increment that | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
decision. Number two, Mr Spdaker. The government is clear that we will | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
not allow the import of trophies from critically endangered species | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
where this is unsustainable. Tigers, for example. We have also increase | :06:32. | :06:38. | |
the protection controls arotnd six other species, ranging from | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
elephants to polar theirs, `nd we remain absolutely committed to | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
banning the import of lion trophies Annecy has significant improvement | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
in the conservation of lions. I thank the Minister for that answer | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
and the general thrust of it. Would he agree that banning it is morally | :06:56. | :07:02. | |
quite wrong to kill some of the most dangerous species to put a trophy on | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
the war? Would he agree that make sense to have a ban on thosd which | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
come from the widely endangdred categories into this countrx? I | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
agree, I think everyone would agree that if a species is critic`lly | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
endangered, it is not a suitable to be hunting it, let alone putting it | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
as a trophy on a wall. We whll be looking very closely at scidntific | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
evidence right across the r`nge of endangered species, and it will be | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
very relevant to focus on this with September and October being the time | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
for the conference in Johannesburg. Australia and France have both | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
banned the use and import of lion products. What are they know that | :07:42. | :07:48. | |
the ministers refuses to act upon? We are looking very closely at what | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
Australia and France have bden doing, we have been working on a | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
common EU US position in order to change the practices in Afrhca. It | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
makes a huge difference that we do this together as 700 and William | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
people across the -- 700 million people across the EU and thd US | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
rather than doing it individually. Following the EE referendum vote, we | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
have no idea how the EU acthon plan against wildlife trafficking will be | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
prevented by the UK Governmdnt. Is the minister in a position to | :08:19. | :08:21. | |
provide any assurances to the House today? As my colleague has pointed | :08:22. | :08:28. | |
out, the details of our poshtion in relation to Europe will havd to be | :08:29. | :08:31. | |
determined by a future Primd Minister. But we played a vdry, | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
active role in drafting that plan, pushing for the content of that | :08:38. | :08:40. | |
plan, and we will see in wh`t we are doing in Vietnam, our commitment to | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
that plan. As long as I'm in this position, the UK's position to that | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
is absolutely unequivocal. Number three, Mr Speaker. With perlission, | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
I would like to take questions three and six together. Until negotiations | :08:57. | :09:03. | |
conclude and the UK EEC EU, all existing arrangements remain in | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
place and revelled elements plans across the UK remain in place. It | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
will be for a new Prime Minhster and his or her cabinet to sit at the | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
future shape of revelled eldments of the UK leads the EU. | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
In the Secretary of State m`de a call that Scotland voted to remain | :09:21. | :09:27. | |
in the referendum. Can the secretary of state commit that nobody in | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
Scotland who has benefited, will lose out on funding. As I s`id, | :09:32. | :09:39. | |
while we remain in the EU, the existing arrangements | :09:40. | :09:40. | |
place, including the development of place, including the development of | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
our current rural development programme. Nothing changes tntil | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
negotiations have been concluded and a new partnership with the DU has | :09:50. | :09:55. | |
been put in place. Agriculttre plays a major part in Scotland's 04 | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
billion pounds bid and drink industry. Following the uncdrtainty | :10:00. | :10:06. | |
created by the referendum, what assurances can he give todax to | :10:07. | :10:12. | |
those concerns with the restlts in our farming communities? I can give | :10:13. | :10:15. | |
farmers across the UK than the assurance that for the time being, | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
we remain in the EU and all existing arrangements remain in placd. All | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
existing support payment relain in place until we leave the EU and a | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
new type of partnership is bit in place and new agriculture policies | :10:31. | :10:37. | |
put in place. I thank him for the energy enthusiasm and intelligence | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
he dropped to the campaign. Having met farmers in my constituency | :10:43. | :10:45. | |
before the vote, it was cle`r that the scene you'll leadership of the | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
National Farmers Union had signed up to project there and was trxing to | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
scare armourers and rural dwellers into voting remain. Now that the | :10:54. | :10:59. | |
result has been decided and that overwhelmingly in Kettering, we | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
voted to leave, Kelly make sure that everyone involved and rural | :11:05. | :11:10. | |
communities and farming talks up rural communities and farming, | :11:11. | :11:12. | |
because we have a bright future ahead of us. I thank him for his | :11:13. | :11:18. | |
kind comments, but now that the decision has been made, we should | :11:19. | :11:25. | |
move on and focus on the future I have been at a livestock evdnt | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
already and had meetings as many farmers. What is interesting is that | :11:30. | :11:31. | |
once you get past the initi`l shock once you get past the initi`l shock | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
of this decision for some and get into detail of what might bd | :11:36. | :11:38. | |
possible in the future, people get more excited by the potenti`l. Does | :11:39. | :11:45. | |
the Minister agree that oncd we have left the EU, it will providd us with | :11:46. | :11:48. | |
that amend its opportunity to be able to develop a package of | :11:49. | :11:55. | |
measures designed to support UK farmers, that is tailor-madd to help | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
UK farmers, and in fact, thdre's nothing to stop us starting work on | :12:00. | :12:02. | |
putting a package together right now. He makes are very important | :12:03. | :12:12. | |
point. What I can reassure hs that, while no decision will be m`de until | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
that is a new Prime Minister and cabinet, there is some work on | :12:17. | :12:19. | |
options being done in the Department, to think up what the | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
options might be that could be presented to a new Prime Minister. | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
One of the claims from some Lead campaigners was that breaks it would | :12:28. | :12:33. | |
lower food prices. Now that did the decision is made, can you tdll us | :12:34. | :12:39. | |
what options are available? Food prices are driven by a rangd of | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
factors, most importantly energy prices, development in weather | :12:46. | :12:48. | |
around the world and also exchange rates. These are the key drhvers of | :12:49. | :12:55. | |
our food prices. I have alw`ys made clear that while food prices go up | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
and down, and they're down 7% over the past two years, there are bigger | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
events that drive them than EU membership. Many farmers and lamps | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
boards are about to sign higher stewardship contracts. Many of these | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
ten year contracts and in these uncertain times, they're bedn put on | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
hold. Did you give assurancds that these precious pieces of | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
environmental biodiversity will not be at risk and that something will | :13:24. | :13:30. | |
happen to protect them? Yes, that's an important point, which is, there | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
will be areas and elements where we need to have continuity. We are | :13:35. | :13:37. | |
having discussions across government now about how we can make stre we | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
prejudicing what a future Prime prejudicing what a future Prime | :13:43. | :13:53. | |
Minister might want to do. Could there is surely the farmers in Wales | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
by explaining what discussion he has had with colleagues in the Welsh | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
government regarding the funding of rural development and agrictltural | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
schemes in Wales best remark I have regular discussions with my opposite | :14:08. | :14:10. | |
numbers in the devolved numbers in the devolved | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
administrations. I hope I'll be able to meet the new Welsh adminhstration | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
when I next goal is to counsel in Europe, which is in about two weeks, | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
when we can discuss these issues in more detail. I also hope to be | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
year. Will he confirm that his plans year. Will he confirm that his plans | :14:30. | :14:40. | |
to make sure it the fear allocation of convergence update on tr`ck and | :14:41. | :14:46. | |
hand you tell us when Scotthsh farmers can expect? We alwaxs had | :14:47. | :14:53. | |
commitment to review the allocation of budgets, the so-called | :14:54. | :14:54. | |
convergence uplift, during 2016 I convergence uplift, during 2016 I | :14:55. | :15:01. | |
had a meeting with the farmdrs union in January, where we had early | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
discussions. Now that the Scottish elections are over and we h`ve | :15:07. | :15:09. | |
passed the referendum, I wotld expect in the autumn to be `ble to | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
progress these discussions with the Scottish Government. Last stmmer, I | :15:14. | :15:24. | |
set out target of Defra reldasing 800 datasets by the summer. I'm | :15:25. | :15:30. | |
delighted to say we have released 11,000 sets, which means more than a | :15:31. | :15:36. | |
third of government data is Defra data. This means better information | :15:37. | :15:47. | |
about air quality and other things. There are many community groups who | :15:48. | :15:53. | |
want to contribute to allevhating floods, things like planting trees, | :15:54. | :15:59. | |
building dams. Can my honourable friend confirm that the information | :16:00. | :16:07. | |
on all these things will be made readily available to help community | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
groups? I thank him for his question. He's done us and our state | :16:13. | :16:17. | |
job in championing the Calddr Valley. I do want to make stre all | :16:18. | :16:20. | |
that information is available, so we can manage catchments in terms of | :16:21. | :16:27. | |
flood defences, including the River Calder. What happened over last | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
year's very difficult floods, was we did have more information available | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
to the public, there were 18.5 million hits on our flood | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
information service website. What I want to do is make even mord | :16:40. | :16:46. | |
information available to thd public. Does she keep data on how m`ny | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
scientists we have working hn agricultural technology and how much | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
money is spent on agricultural technology and research? And did she | :16:57. | :17:05. | |
not worried that there is rdal danger of our research base being | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
eroded, with China taking over some of it? He is absolutely right that | :17:11. | :17:18. | |
our research-based, that is vitally important, that is the future of | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
agriculture, more precision farming, better use of data. I'm detdrmined | :17:24. | :17:26. | |
we do all we can to protect and grow that, that's why when investing 160 | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
million and of course we nedd to million and of course we nedd to | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
plan even more for the future. Up-to-date data on the effects of | :17:37. | :17:43. | |
the temporary new or nicotinamide ban, both on production and the | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
when will that be available? I thank when will that be available? I thank | :17:48. | :17:56. | |
him for his question. We ard looking at further research, more rdsearch | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
is due to be published, there are many already published piecds of | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
research and he will be aware that the decision on the use of | :18:06. | :18:24. | |
neonicitonoids is to be dechded I would like to answer questions five, | :18:25. | :18:32. | |
seven and ten together. We lunched the Great British Food Unit in | :18:33. | :18:39. | |
January. I have been promothng British beef and lamb in April as | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
well as classic British products like gin and tonic. A bit e`rly for | :18:45. | :18:53. | |
gin and tonic for me, personally, but our food and drink exports are | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
very important, not least the world-famous Cheshire cheesd, but | :18:59. | :19:01. | |
given this country's decision to leave the EU, how important is the | :19:02. | :19:09. | |
role of great British food ,- the Great British Food Unit in getting | :19:10. | :19:16. | |
those markets? It's never too early for a gin and tonic, in my opinion. | :19:17. | :19:23. | |
I completely agree with thel, now the British people have madd the | :19:24. | :19:31. | |
decision to leave the EU, the Great British Food Unit is even more | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
important. We already have lissions planned to the G, China and Japan, | :19:36. | :19:40. | |
to open more markets for fantastic British food, and I'm going to be | :19:41. | :19:45. | |
increasing resources into the Great British Food Unit to make stre we | :19:46. | :19:51. | |
target our rivers to export more British food across the world. Will | :19:52. | :19:54. | |
she accept that Essex is hole to she accept that Essex is hole to | :19:55. | :19:58. | |
some of the finest food, drhnk and countryside of the nation? @nd does | :19:59. | :20:06. | |
she think, and what is the link between food and tourism and what | :20:07. | :20:13. | |
more can be done to promote it? I thank him and we know that ` third | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
of all visitors, food is a lajor factor in deciding where thdy visit. | :20:19. | :20:23. | |
It's hugely important, that is why Defra is backing food to lose. | :20:24. | :20:31. | |
Recently, we we backed their culinary tour of Yorkshire which | :20:32. | :20:36. | |
accompanied the cycle race. I'd be delighted to discuss with them how | :20:37. | :20:37. | |
we can do something similar in Essex we can do something similar in Essex | :20:38. | :20:43. | |
to make the fantastic products like Tiptree strawberry jam. She will be | :20:44. | :20:53. | |
delighted that the Gloucestdr service Station, since she visited | :20:54. | :21:00. | |
it in February, has been given to awards. Famously, while she was | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
there, she enjoyed a Gloucester sausage. I hope that she will | :21:05. | :21:12. | |
confirm today whether in negotiations with the EU, she will | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
be seeking to extend the prddictions given to Gloucester foods and other | :21:18. | :21:18. | |
great British foods. I thank my honourable friend to my | :21:19. | :21:28. | |
very enjoyable visit and I `m delighted that the Chief Exdcutive | :21:29. | :21:35. | |
has now agreed to be one of our food pioneers, promoting great British | :21:36. | :21:38. | |
food around Britain and arotnd the world. I look forward to talking | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
with him about how we can protect these products when they ard not | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
just going around the EU but are more widely known around thd world. | :21:48. | :21:58. | |
Mr Speaker... No, I am glad the food unit is showing success. However, | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
whilst the Secretary of State boasts about her support for British food, | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
the Defra headquarters sources almost half of its food frol | :22:08. | :22:12. | |
overseas. Other departments are falling even further behind. So why | :22:13. | :22:21. | |
isn't Defra ensuring governlent department are backing which food? | :22:22. | :22:28. | |
We are, for example over 90$ of the dairy products sourced across | :22:29. | :22:32. | |
government from the UK. Of course there are some products likd coffee | :22:33. | :22:36. | |
that we cannot yet produce hn the UK, although now we are abld to | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
produce our own aubergines `nd our own tomatoes and chilies, I am sure | :22:42. | :22:47. | |
we are not far away from th`t. One of the items on the great British | :22:48. | :22:52. | |
food website is the promotion of the EU protected food name schele which | :22:53. | :22:58. | |
means that 73 products in the UK are protected under the EU schele. What | :22:59. | :23:02. | |
would she put into place to protect that scheme of the UK and drags us | :23:03. | :23:09. | |
out of the EU? -- the UK Government drags us out of the EU? I think we | :23:10. | :23:14. | |
are up to 74 protected prodtcts now. Maybe it has not been updatdd on the | :23:15. | :23:18. | |
website. It is an extremely important issue, it is one of the | :23:19. | :23:21. | |
issues that we are working on at the moment, but I would like to see a | :23:22. | :23:30. | |
British protected food schele in the future. Eels, whiskey and potatoes | :23:31. | :23:39. | |
are protected in Northern Ireland. What discussions has the Grdat | :23:40. | :23:42. | |
British Food Unit had with food and I to promote the great food and | :23:43. | :23:46. | |
across the whole of Great Britain and Northern Ireland? I was | :23:47. | :23:52. | |
delighted to visit Belfast `nd the huge show and taste some of those | :23:53. | :23:55. | |
products for myself, they are truly outstanding. I am working closely | :23:56. | :24:02. | |
with the Irish Minister on writing those products might around the | :24:03. | :24:08. | |
world. They were heavily -- promoting those products around the | :24:09. | :24:13. | |
world. They were heavily fe`tured in China. As a member has just left the | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
chamber while exchanges on the question to which he contributed | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
were ongoing, members should stay in the chamber until all of thd | :24:23. | :24:26. | |
exchanges on their question or the question to which they contributed | :24:27. | :24:31. | |
have been completed. It is puite an elementary courtesy. Mr Spe`ker | :24:32. | :24:39. | |
during 2015, badger control operations in Somerset, | :24:40. | :24:44. | |
Gloucestershire and Dorset were all successful in meeting their targets. | :24:45. | :24:47. | |
The Chief veterinary Officer's advice is that the advice showed | :24:48. | :24:53. | |
that industry led badger control can deliver the level of effecthveness | :24:54. | :24:57. | |
required to deliver disease control benefits. Agger culling in Dngland | :24:58. | :25:03. | |
costs around -- badger cullhng in England cost around ?7,000 per | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
badger killed, in Wales the badge of adulation costs around ?700 per | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
badger vaccinated. -- the b`dger vaccination programme. Renowned | :25:14. | :25:19. | |
expert on the subject have continually said that rolling out | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
culling as a rational policx to control TB is not really crddible. | :25:25. | :25:30. | |
Does the Minister accept th`t? I would point out to the honotrable | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
lady that TB is costing the country ?100 million per year and that is | :25:36. | :25:39. | |
why we have to act. The vetdrinary advice is clear, you cannot have a | :25:40. | :25:44. | |
coherent strategy to eradic`te TB without also tackling the dhsease in | :25:45. | :25:47. | |
the wildlife population. Finally on vaccination, following advice from | :25:48. | :25:53. | |
the world health organisation, those operations, vaccination in Wales and | :25:54. | :25:56. | |
in ten have been suspended because there is a lack of vaccine. -- and | :25:57. | :26:04. | |
in England. The benign, Mr Speaker. Until we leave the EU it will be | :26:05. | :26:10. | |
business as usual, farmers will continue to receive support | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
payments. We are developing policy in the future. Ultimately it will be | :26:16. | :26:18. | |
the decision of the new Prile Minister but I'm working very | :26:19. | :26:24. | |
closely with organisations like the NFU, CLA, in my mental protdction | :26:25. | :26:28. | |
groups who will have a role to play in developing these -- and | :26:29. | :26:32. | |
environmental protection groups who will have a rail to play in | :26:33. | :26:36. | |
developing these policies. H'm glad that those agencies are involved to | :26:37. | :26:42. | |
try and find a way out of this mess, frankly. Can the Minister gtarantee | :26:43. | :26:49. | |
that the CAP subsidy until 2020 will be underwritten not just for basic | :26:50. | :26:54. | |
payment schemes but for pillar two schemes as well? What I havd just | :26:55. | :27:01. | |
said is that until we leave the EU, those schemes will be in pl`ce. But | :27:02. | :27:10. | |
following the leave, when ldave takes place, after article 40 is | :27:11. | :27:14. | |
triggered and the process is gone through, it will be a decishon for | :27:15. | :27:17. | |
the new Prime Minister. That is not a decision I can make at thhs stage. | :27:18. | :27:23. | |
Not only is it important to keep that basic farm payment going, it is | :27:24. | :27:31. | |
also vital that we get it fhxed The rural payments agency is sthll | :27:32. | :27:35. | |
having big problems, there `re still lots of payments being made to | :27:36. | :27:38. | |
farmers who each have not bden ratified and not properly m`de. What | :27:39. | :27:42. | |
is happening with the rural payments? I thank the honourable | :27:43. | :27:49. | |
gentleman for his question. 99. % of farmers have now received p`yment. | :27:50. | :27:54. | |
What the system does this ydar which it has not done in previous years | :27:55. | :28:01. | |
has done prepayment checks laking sure we did not overpay farlers and | :28:02. | :28:05. | |
ending up having to claw back the money. So that means there will be a | :28:06. | :28:10. | |
reconciliation period where we do adjustments which is taking pace at | :28:11. | :28:13. | |
the moment, so farmers, where there was a problem in their applhcation, | :28:14. | :28:17. | |
will receive that extra paylent over the next two months. But we are | :28:18. | :28:21. | |
fully on track the payment on time next year. Question in Lebanon, Mr | :28:22. | :28:28. | |
Speaker. Defra monitors ret`il food prices through the procedurd prices | :28:29. | :28:33. | |
index. -- consumer prices index will stop year on year, prices h`ve | :28:34. | :28:39. | |
fallen, we also monitor trends on household expenditure on food during | :28:40. | :28:47. | |
the family food survey. Durhng a higher period of inflation, retail | :28:48. | :28:51. | |
prices have fallen by 7% since their peak in 2014. Last week I vhsited a | :28:52. | :28:56. | |
very successful food supply in my constituency who told me thdy are | :28:57. | :28:58. | |
already putting up their prhces because of changes in the exchange | :28:59. | :29:02. | |
rate hitting import and predicting food inflation of up to 8% within | :29:03. | :29:07. | |
months following the leave vote Clearly there are real impact now, | :29:08. | :29:11. | |
can we have more detail frol the Minister on how they will bd | :29:12. | :29:15. | |
responding to a spike in UK prices for consumers? Is like spadds | :29:16. | :29:19. | |
earlier, one of the factors that has an implement -- as I explained | :29:20. | :29:24. | |
earlier, one of the factors that has an influence on food prices is the | :29:25. | :29:33. | |
currency rate. Some experts say that there has been a correction in the | :29:34. | :29:37. | |
exchange rate from the pound and the euro. The crucial thing is that we | :29:38. | :29:40. | |
have a competitive food supply industry in this country. Qtestion | :29:41. | :29:49. | |
12, Mr Speaker. The governmdnt is committed to troubling the number of | :29:50. | :29:51. | |
apprenticeships in food and farming by 2020. I am decided that the | :29:52. | :29:57. | |
skills Minister has announcdd that the apprentice ship levy can be used | :29:58. | :30:01. | |
by major organisations like supermarkets and food manuf`cturing | :30:02. | :30:08. | |
so they can help SMTP Mac and Thomas Aiken apprentices. As chairlan for | :30:09. | :30:16. | |
the APA PG for bees, I got ` tremendous buzz from this. The | :30:17. | :30:22. | |
British beef farmers are colpleting an innovative ?3 million programme. | :30:23. | :30:28. | |
What steps is the government taking to encourage more tiny provhders | :30:29. | :30:34. | |
take on -- highly providers to take on apprentices? Honey is an | :30:35. | :30:44. | |
important product in our cotntry, it generates ?100 million. Those | :30:45. | :30:50. | |
apprenticeships generated c`n be used in the food chain. Defra has | :30:51. | :30:56. | |
its own beekeeper apprenticd helping maintain our high at Noble house, | :30:57. | :31:05. | |
Defra headquarters, where wd produce our own macro three. | :31:06. | :31:15. | |
-- our own honey. Two weeks ago the British people voted to leave the | :31:16. | :31:17. | |
European Union. I will be m`king sure that food farming and the | :31:18. | :31:22. | |
environment have a strong voice in the exit negotiations and in | :31:23. | :31:25. | |
astonishing our new domestic promises. -- policies. Until we | :31:26. | :31:31. | |
leave the EU, it is business as usual for farmers and the | :31:32. | :31:37. | |
environment and I'm eating ,- meeting organisations to assure them | :31:38. | :31:42. | |
of this. We will be continuhng with our great British food camp`ign and | :31:43. | :31:47. | |
artwork to open up new markdts, and developing 14 local environlent | :31:48. | :31:52. | |
plans. Following on from thd devastating floods Boxing D`y visit | :31:53. | :31:58. | |
in my constituency, right honourable friend, can she tell us what long | :31:59. | :32:07. | |
term plans are being put in place to protect villages in my constituency? | :32:08. | :32:14. | |
He has been an assiduous advocate of his constituency, making sure that | :32:15. | :32:17. | |
towns and bridges in his arda are not adversely affected by flood | :32:18. | :32:21. | |
defences put in place upstrdam. We will be working on an overall plan | :32:22. | :32:26. | |
for the catchment of the river, so that rather than looking at | :32:27. | :32:31. | |
individual places on the river, we manage the overall river flow. | :32:32. | :32:35. | |
That'll be part of the national flood resilience review which will | :32:36. | :32:40. | |
be announced shortly. The horticultural industry is | :32:41. | :32:42. | |
particularly vulnerable following the Leave vote due to the hhgh | :32:43. | :32:48. | |
proportion of EU seasonal workers in the sector. How will the secretary | :32:49. | :32:50. | |
of state insure our crops are harvested in this uncertain period | :32:51. | :32:55. | |
due to getting sufficient l`bour from the EU? I welcome the | :32:56. | :33:00. | |
honourable lady to the disp`tch box, she was a fantastic advocatd for her | :33:01. | :33:04. | |
constituents, during the very difficult flooding in York `nd I | :33:05. | :33:07. | |
look forward to working with her very much. In terms of the hssues of | :33:08. | :33:14. | |
agricultural workers, my constituency is a great producer of | :33:15. | :33:22. | |
things like salad vegetables and canyons, I fully understand the | :33:23. | :33:25. | |
importance of those workers to the agricultural industry. It whll be | :33:26. | :33:28. | |
one of the key things we ard working on at Defra and putting the case | :33:29. | :33:31. | |
across government to make stre we continue having a supply of workers. | :33:32. | :33:36. | |
It is evident from the responses from the government that her | :33:37. | :33:38. | |
department has not made contingency plans for at Leave vote, fahling in | :33:39. | :33:45. | |
its duty in government to not any protect one of our major industries, | :33:46. | :33:51. | |
but also those who work in ht. What action has she taken to confirm that | :33:52. | :33:55. | |
all EU citizens working in farming can remain in the EU as yesterday's | :33:56. | :34:01. | |
vote called for, and she has already made representations to the Home | :34:02. | :34:05. | |
Office on this? It is absolttely clear that whilst they remahn | :34:06. | :34:10. | |
members of the EU, it is business as usual. Those workers will continue | :34:11. | :34:16. | |
to work in those errors. Thd reality is, I cannot make decisions for a | :34:17. | :34:21. | |
future by Minister. That is the fundamental -- future Prime | :34:22. | :34:24. | |
Minister. That is the fundalental issue. That is why my job over the | :34:25. | :34:27. | |
coming month is to be a strong voice for farming and the environlent as | :34:28. | :34:35. | |
part of those oval negotiathons Following the floods in Carlisle, I | :34:36. | :34:38. | |
am concerned that a group of leaseholders will not be able to get | :34:39. | :34:45. | |
insurance. They consist of 60 long leaseholders with a freeholder which | :34:46. | :34:49. | |
is a management company, with the management company having the | :34:50. | :34:51. | |
responsibility for the insurance, and they have not been able to | :34:52. | :34:54. | |
obtain it. Will the Minister look into this issue and consider | :34:55. | :35:01. | |
amending legislation is necdssary? In addition to welcoming thd Shadow | :35:02. | :35:05. | |
Secretary of State, if I cotld also welcome my friend the honourable | :35:06. | :35:09. | |
member for Newport West to his position. In relation to thd | :35:10. | :35:13. | |
flooding in Carlisle, the honourable member is a great champion for his | :35:14. | :35:17. | |
constituency. If there is an individual leasehold property, it | :35:18. | :35:19. | |
would be covered with affordable insurance under fluttery. | :35:20. | :35:24. | |
Unfortunately a very large situation where in this situation a l`ndlord | :35:25. | :35:30. | |
has 60 properties, it would be classified as commercial insurance | :35:31. | :35:34. | |
and would require a bespoke tailor to commercial insurance but with the | :35:35. | :35:38. | |
insurance industry. I am happy to look at the individual case, and the | :35:39. | :35:44. | |
British insurance brokers Association is also coming tp with a | :35:45. | :35:47. | |
tailored product exactly to address these kinds of commercial rhsks I | :35:48. | :35:54. | |
thank you for his erudite treaties. Scotland's food and drink industry | :35:55. | :36:02. | |
export ?725 million of projdcts to the EU. Given the disastrous Brexit | :36:03. | :36:07. | |
vote, what impact does the Linister believe any restrictions on seasonal | :36:08. | :36:10. | |
workforce will have on the hndustry north of the border? I think the | :36:11. | :36:16. | |
honourable member for his qtestion, that is why we are turbo-ch`rging | :36:17. | :36:20. | |
the work of the Great British Food Unit, to make sure that we open up | :36:21. | :36:24. | |
new markets and we get more of our products out into the world as well | :36:25. | :36:28. | |
as the European Union. I am very clear that agriculture and food has | :36:29. | :36:33. | |
got major export growth potdntial, and that is why I am having a | :36:34. | :36:39. | |
meeting today with the Business Secretary to talk about our trade | :36:40. | :36:42. | |
negotiations, and making sure that food is a key part of those. Our | :36:43. | :36:49. | |
files have some of the highdst - farmers have some of the highest | :36:50. | :36:53. | |
welfare standards in the world. How will this be recognised in tpcoming | :36:54. | :36:56. | |
trade negotiations with the kit will be doing our fathers disservice if | :36:57. | :37:00. | |
cheap imported food with no regard to welfare comes into the UK. He | :37:01. | :37:06. | |
will be aware that we have ` manifesto commitments to recognise | :37:07. | :37:09. | |
animal wear fur standards in our trade negotiations. This is -- | :37:10. | :37:13. | |
welfare standards. This is particularly important in things | :37:14. | :37:18. | |
like poultry meat and I belheve we will make those representathons to | :37:19. | :37:22. | |
the European Commission. Thd government decided against tsing | :37:23. | :37:26. | |
Defra funding to implement clean air zone in Manchester. Greater | :37:27. | :37:29. | |
Manchester is expected to mhss our 2020 as quality targets bec`use of | :37:30. | :37:35. | |
the high levels of nitrogen dioxide and high particulate matter caused | :37:36. | :37:40. | |
by road vehicles. Will the government look at the scrappage | :37:41. | :37:43. | |
scheme for older vehicles and an incentive scheme for hybrid and | :37:44. | :37:48. | |
electric cars? : our projections, greater Manchester will hit -- | :37:49. | :37:54. | |
according to our projections, greater Manchester will hit below 40 | :37:55. | :37:58. | |
mg over the target, which is why it has not been pleaded in the | :37:59. | :38:02. | |
mandatory clean air zone is we will consult on, but the litigathon is in | :38:03. | :38:05. | |
place for great Manchester to put in place that clean air zone is greater | :38:06. | :38:09. | |
magister wants to do it. I believe in evolution, surely it is ` matter | :38:10. | :38:15. | |
for the local -- in evolution, surely it is a matter for the local | :38:16. | :38:20. | |
council to take that forward. The recent select committee into soil | :38:21. | :38:26. | |
highlighted a significant proportion of our agriculture land will be | :38:27. | :38:29. | |
unproductive within a gener`tion. Will the Minister meet with me to | :38:30. | :38:37. | |
discussed the sustainable n`ture of soil, so the emphasis is put on | :38:38. | :38:40. | |
ecosystems rather than growhng mediums. Soils are not just there to | :38:41. | :38:46. | |
try and get short-term prodtction, they are incredibly important stores | :38:47. | :38:49. | |
of organic matter. There is a lot that we can do and are doing and | :38:50. | :38:55. | |
precision farming, shelter belts, research is doing work on this but I | :38:56. | :38:58. | |
would be delighted to meet the honourable member and make sure Mr | :38:59. | :39:01. | |
Speaker that it is central to our two to five year plan. -- 24 year | :39:02. | :39:08. | |
plan. More than half the population of England live within an hour of a | :39:09. | :39:11. | |
national park that many young people and their families struggle to get | :39:12. | :39:14. | |
there because rural bus services have been hit by devastating cuts | :39:15. | :39:19. | |
and eye watering fare rises. In this catch the bus we, can she tdll us | :39:20. | :39:25. | |
what discussions he has had with the Transport Secretary about m`king our | :39:26. | :39:29. | |
countryside is accessible bx public transport? We have a response that | :39:30. | :39:34. | |
if oral affairs in Defra, rdgular contact with the Department for | :39:35. | :39:41. | |
Transport on this issue, as the honourable member has lent ht out, | :39:42. | :39:47. | |
without communications, and buses are essential to that, all `reas | :39:48. | :39:51. | |
with disadvantaged. On the 27th of April the Prime Minister confirmed | :39:52. | :39:58. | |
that the government are working on an insurance plan for SME btsinesses | :39:59. | :40:02. | |
in flood risk areas which are excluded from flood risk cover. Can | :40:03. | :40:05. | |
my right honourable friend tpdate the House? The honourable mdmber has | :40:06. | :40:12. | |
been an extra Richard Green for his own constituency and in fact he had | :40:13. | :40:18. | |
a late -- and extraordinary advocate for his own constituency. Hd had a | :40:19. | :40:25. | |
late Mrs party a few days ago. I saw the devastation in the Calddr | :40:26. | :40:30. | |
Valley. The problem in commdrcial insurance is that different | :40:31. | :40:33. | |
businesses have different attitudes toward instruction payment `nd | :40:34. | :40:39. | |
excesses. That is being addressed but most importantly through the | :40:40. | :40:42. | |
investment in flood defences. With reference to flood defences, I | :40:43. | :40:50. | |
understand the 2009 cut-off date that developers should have been | :40:51. | :40:57. | |
aware of. What can the Minister did make it legally binding to hnform | :40:58. | :41:03. | |
purchasers that they would not be eligible for it, and what about the | :41:04. | :41:06. | |
properties down the hill? Fundamentally, they answer hs to | :41:07. | :41:20. | |
have good flood defences, and we need to make sure transparency as | :41:21. | :41:23. | |
part of that. Somebody buying a house needs to know it is a risk of | :41:24. | :41:28. | |
floods, so they can make an intelligent decision. Would you join | :41:29. | :41:36. | |
me in congratulating my loc`l agricultural Society for organising | :41:37. | :41:41. | |
our local show and would yot agree that these shows playing a very | :41:42. | :41:49. | |
important role? I think agrhcultural shows are fantastic and I'vd been to | :41:50. | :41:52. | |
a great number this year, culminating in the Norfolk show I | :41:53. | :41:57. | |
wish you all the best for the 1 th of August. Literally thousands of EU | :41:58. | :42:04. | |
nationals have been successful working in fish processing hn my | :42:05. | :42:07. | |
constituency, but this week the government has failed to give any | :42:08. | :42:11. | |
reassurance that these people will be allowed to live here and work | :42:12. | :42:17. | |
your post Brexit. But you m`ke every effort to use all your infltence on | :42:18. | :42:20. | |
the Home Secretary to provide some certainty for these people? As I | :42:21. | :42:27. | |
said in response to an earlher question, I agree that the DU | :42:28. | :42:36. | |
workers are unimportant parts of the agriculture and fishing sector and | :42:37. | :42:39. | |
it's something we're working on at the moment. The RSPB has a very | :42:40. | :42:47. | |
important visitor centre in my constituency. The rebel eschew | :42:48. | :42:58. | |
Detroit to an promote broad knowledge. What is the government | :42:59. | :43:03. | |
doing to make sure children get bird knowledge? Fantastic results. The | :43:04. | :43:09. | |
Environment Agency are workhng very closely with the RS PB, and | :43:10. | :43:13. | |
connecting children to nature is absolutely essential, if we are to | :43:14. | :43:17. | |
protect nature for the future, people need to look at. The key is | :43:18. | :43:22. | |
to make sure children not only access nature, but respond to it. | :43:23. | :43:32. | |
The honourable member for South West Devon. Representing the spe`kers | :43:33. | :43:37. | |
committee on the electoral commission. With permission, I'd | :43:38. | :43:47. | |
like to answer questions ond and three together, representathves of | :43:48. | :43:49. | |
the Church of England have taken part in detailed conversations with | :43:50. | :43:53. | |
regulate out-of-school setthngs I regulate out-of-school setthngs I | :43:54. | :43:59. | |
Cabinet Office and we understand Cabinet Office and we understand | :44:00. | :44:02. | |
this policy remains under rdview on and I'm hopeful something whll | :44:03. | :44:04. | |
emerge which makes the concdrns those of us have voiced. Wh`t | :44:05. | :44:10. | |
discussions as she had with the government regarding the | :44:11. | :44:17. | |
proportionality and the control of existing regulations, just `s data | :44:18. | :44:23. | |
binding service checks in out-of-school settings? Precisely, | :44:24. | :44:26. | |
as far as the Church of England is concerned, this is important, | :44:27. | :44:30. | |
because we provide high find a thousand children out of school | :44:31. | :44:35. | |
education activities, and this involves 80,000 volunteers, which as | :44:36. | :44:38. | |
I'm sure you will know, anyone who works as children in and out of | :44:39. | :44:43. | |
school setting, has to be stbject to a careful check, disclosure and | :44:44. | :44:50. | |
banning service check, and ht is now suggestion that their representation | :44:51. | :44:54. | |
undermines our determination that children should be well protected, | :44:55. | :44:58. | |
but we believe they are in what the Church of England provides. | :44:59. | :45:03. | |
Religious organisations, include Islamic education centres and a | :45:04. | :45:08. | |
Gospel Mission, have expressed any concerns at government plans will | :45:09. | :45:13. | |
restrict and prevent them from expanding their current educational | :45:14. | :45:16. | |
indications of the timescald for indications of the timescald for | :45:17. | :45:19. | |
when these proposals may be brought forward? I'm sanctions as hd is to | :45:20. | :45:26. | |
have a rabid outcome on this decision, but until a new Prime | :45:27. | :45:30. | |
Minister is in place, ministers are saying very clearly that thd final | :45:31. | :45:34. | |
decision cannot be made. We did receive an assurance from the | :45:35. | :45:38. | |
Minister for schools at the government has no intention of | :45:39. | :45:40. | |
regulating religion or interfere in appearance right to teach children | :45:41. | :45:48. | |
about their faith and herit`ge. Does she agree that any church | :45:49. | :45:53. | |
activities, Sunday schools, Brownies, must not be impacted for | :45:54. | :45:59. | |
the government plans for out-of-school education? We did | :46:00. | :46:02. | |
impress upon the ministers that the kind of out-of-school activhties | :46:03. | :46:08. | |
that the church provides, they are subject to very rigorous chdcking | :46:09. | :46:11. | |
processes within the church, and indeed, on the matter of providing | :46:12. | :46:16. | |
such out-of-school education in a domestic setting, we reminddd | :46:17. | :46:21. | |
ministers that these are governed by childminding regulations. The Bishop | :46:22. | :46:28. | |
of Derby has been at the forefront of working to tackle human | :46:29. | :46:32. | |
trafficking and modern slavdry, and I have had the pleasure of serving | :46:33. | :46:38. | |
with him on the scrutiny colmittee. And he has set up and been part of a | :46:39. | :46:43. | |
process to improve collabor`tion between churches and police forces | :46:44. | :46:47. | |
in the detection of incidences of human trafficking. I am grateful for | :46:48. | :46:53. | |
that and serve. What plans does the church Avenue to roll out that | :46:54. | :46:57. | |
scheme to the rest of England, with Gatwick on my constituency, I would | :46:58. | :47:02. | |
certainly like to see that. We all understand his particular concern in | :47:03. | :47:06. | |
this area because of the location of his constituency. The church is | :47:07. | :47:09. | |
building on the work of the Bishop of Derby and intends to launch an | :47:10. | :47:12. | |
slavery in the autumn. It should slavery in the autumn. It should | :47:13. | :47:19. | |
provide parishes and diocesds is both structures to detect incidences | :47:20. | :47:23. | |
of modern-day slavery. One of the most powerful ways of getting | :47:24. | :47:26. | |
information across as from the personal testimony of victils. What | :47:27. | :47:33. | |
ever it is the church undertaking to identify and encourage Christian | :47:34. | :47:36. | |
victims of human trafficking to be a witness in their churches and | :47:37. | :47:41. | |
communities, because a lot of people are realising that human tr`fficking | :47:42. | :47:47. | |
is hidden in local communithes. When I was sitting on the modern,day | :47:48. | :47:52. | |
slavery Bill committee, this hidden nature of trafficking becamd very | :47:53. | :47:55. | |
apparent and I think somethhng clearly churches can do will be to | :47:56. | :48:00. | |
let the lead on the prevalence of trafficking in the society hn which | :48:01. | :48:04. | |
we live. It's incumbent on `ll of us to have our eyes and years open to | :48:05. | :48:09. | |
ask questions when we suspect that somebody may actually be behng | :48:10. | :48:11. | |
trafficking. The commission is trafficking. The commission is | :48:12. | :48:22. | |
currently collecting inform`tion to inform its statutory report on the | :48:23. | :48:26. | |
EU referendum and pass on the members' suggestion for thehr | :48:27. | :48:30. | |
referendum result, central claims on referendum result, central claims on | :48:31. | :48:35. | |
both sides evaporated, spending for the NHS, the UK is the fifth-largest | :48:36. | :48:42. | |
economy, so surely, if we are never to have a referendum again hn this | :48:43. | :48:46. | |
country, the campaigns on both sides should publish measurable claims in | :48:47. | :48:51. | |
a manifesto, so that truth hs not a casualty in the scramble for votes. | :48:52. | :48:59. | |
We can't speak about the truthfulness of the claims, but the | :49:00. | :49:03. | |
idea that their League camp`ign should produce a manifesto hs an | :49:04. | :49:09. | |
interesting one, which I will pass on to the Electoral Commisshon | :49:10. | :49:11. | |
Calais In Its Consideration Of The Referendum Overall. Can I Urge My | :49:12. | :49:18. | |
Honourable Friend To Make Stre That The Electoral Commission Calais Do | :49:19. | :49:22. | |
Not Waste Time Carrying Out Such An Assessment. Manifestos Are For | :49:23. | :49:28. | |
political parties and by definition, a referendum is on a single issue. | :49:29. | :49:35. | |
The Electoral Commission Calais Will Carry Out An Assessment Of The | :49:36. | :49:40. | |
Conduct During The Referendtm, Including People's Levels Of | :49:41. | :49:52. | |
Satisfaction. Stop in advance of the Scottish independent referendum the | :49:53. | :49:56. | |
government published a comprehensive White Paper in blueprints as how the | :49:57. | :50:03. | |
transition to independence would be carried out. The chaos that has | :50:04. | :50:13. | |
followed the Leave campaign, what is a government position on thhs moving | :50:14. | :50:17. | |
forward? Certainly, prior to the 9th of September, I do not speak for the | :50:18. | :50:23. | |
government. Therefore, it is not a matter for the electoral colmission. | :50:24. | :50:34. | |
As you will know all, the rdferendum is about settling a single hssue | :50:35. | :50:39. | |
question, not about electing our government on a manifesto. But would | :50:40. | :50:43. | |
he agree that it would be worth the electoral commission looking at | :50:44. | :50:47. | |
whether it would be worth h`ving a fact checking website, given the | :50:48. | :50:52. | |
claims made in both the Scottish and European referendums. We have no | :50:53. | :51:00. | |
desire to sit in judgment on the truthfulness of either camp`ign But | :51:01. | :51:10. | |
it is important that all sides are responsible, though it's not matter | :51:11. | :51:24. | |
for the Electoral Commission. I was unaware it had adopted and `re | :51:25. | :51:28. | |
positioned on the Lords spiritual. I expect Bernie is not lost on him | :51:29. | :51:35. | |
that representing a Scottish constituency, district lies the | :51:36. | :51:37. | |
scrutiny I welcome. I thank her for scrutiny I welcome. I thank her for | :51:38. | :51:46. | |
her answer. I would point ott, as a member of this house, legislation | :51:47. | :51:52. | |
means I cannot vote on issuds that were taken England only. No, my vote | :51:53. | :51:58. | |
is discounted. By Verdasco to reconsider her position with regard | :51:59. | :52:10. | |
to the Lords Spiritual. All members on the other plays a label to take | :52:11. | :52:14. | |
part in legislation put before Parliament. Should they don't take | :52:15. | :52:20. | |
the party whip, so it's up to each of them. At least two of thdm have | :52:21. | :52:23. | |
family links to Scotland, which may give them a reason to have ` closer | :52:24. | :52:27. | |
interest. Maybe this is the moment for me to come out in the chamber as | :52:28. | :52:33. | |
have Scottish. My maiden nale is McCormack of the clan B Cannon, | :52:34. | :52:36. | |
which demonstrates the point that there are members of all parties who | :52:37. | :52:47. | |
have links to Scotland. I would like to answers questions six and seven | :52:48. | :52:53. | |
Huddersfield has assiduouslx asked Huddersfield has assiduouslx asked | :52:54. | :52:54. | |
me this question on several me this question on several | :52:55. | :52:57. | |
occasions, and delighted to be able to inform him that a further six | :52:58. | :53:01. | |
women have been appointed as bishops. The diocesan bishop for | :53:02. | :53:05. | |
Newcastle with a seat in another place and five bishops of T`unton, | :53:06. | :53:13. | |
Sherborne, Britain and Orkndy. I thank her for that excellent answer, | :53:14. | :53:19. | |
because it mentions that thhs is a bit of a campaign on my beh`lf. I | :53:20. | :53:22. | |
want to fill the churches and I think one of the ways to buhld a | :53:23. | :53:25. | |
churches is to have more wolen bishops. What is the percentage | :53:26. | :53:30. | |
There are some very good wolen who have been promoted yet. This is a | :53:31. | :53:37. | |
campaign which he is well able to take some credit for and I'l sure my | :53:38. | :53:43. | |
predecessor as well. The 18 bishops have been appointed, eight of whom | :53:44. | :53:47. | |
have been women, that is 45$ of all appointments. But you join le in | :53:48. | :53:54. | |
welcoming the new Bishop of Sherborne to her place. Her first | :53:55. | :53:58. | |
official engagement was a confirmation service, when H'm proud | :53:59. | :54:02. | |
to see my son was one of thd candidates. Do you agree with me | :54:03. | :54:06. | |
that her appointment will encourage other women to seek higher positions | :54:07. | :54:13. | |
in the Church of England? Yds indeed and I congratulate him on hhs son's | :54:14. | :54:18. | |
confirmation. The has indeed been an increasing number of younger women | :54:19. | :54:22. | |
entering the priesthood. Sole 4 % of clergy ordained in 2050 werd female. | :54:23. | :54:28. | |
22% of the women ordained wdre under 40. The whole house will | :54:29. | :54:39. | |
congratulate Tomlinson junior. The Church of England's house of Bishops | :54:40. | :54:42. | |
recently published a new discussion paper, Thinking Afresh About | :54:43. | :54:51. | |
Welfare, which is intended to engage with the government's life chances | :54:52. | :54:57. | |
agenda. The Church of England and denominations of these groups have | :54:58. | :55:00. | |
always led the way in helping our most vulnerable people. Does she | :55:01. | :55:03. | |
agree with me that faith groups and voluntary organisations are ideally | :55:04. | :55:07. | |
placed to help the government improve my chances for all, | :55:08. | :55:11. | |
including the homeless, young people and people disabilities? Yes, and | :55:12. | :55:16. | |
the diocese of true role is particularly committed to ilprove | :55:17. | :55:19. | |
the life chances of children and young people living in the diocese, | :55:20. | :55:25. | |
particularly the Isles of Scilly. This applies to schools and | :55:26. | :55:31. | |
improving employment skills. I did notice in Penzance as well, that is | :55:32. | :55:35. | |
an initiative for homeless people, so it's efforts are not confined to | :55:36. | :55:42. | |
children, but also to adults. The church buildings Council has been | :55:43. | :55:47. | |
promoting, through its open and sustainable church initiative, how | :55:48. | :55:48. | |
parishes can adapt their bold and parishes can adapt their bold and | :55:49. | :55:55. | |
the wider community use, most of these includes the installation of | :55:56. | :55:58. | |
an accessible toilet if that is not already one present. | :55:59. | :56:06. | |
Could you imagine if you'd came to a historic church to celebratd the | :56:07. | :56:14. | |
anniversary of the pilgrim fathers, Mr Speaker, and you used modern | :56:15. | :56:24. | |
drinks, tea coffee, which wdre not there when the churches werd built, | :56:25. | :56:30. | |
on the way up it would be e`sy to be caught short. Many churches are | :56:31. | :56:33. | |
lacking modern provision. Shouldn't a fund be created somewhere to allow | :56:34. | :56:40. | |
visitors that comfort break that might be required when we lhved in a | :56:41. | :56:46. | |
modern tea and coffee drinkhng in a? We really want to hear this answer! | :56:47. | :56:52. | |
Mr Speaker, I am delighted to be able to say that the church is | :56:53. | :56:55. | |
making great progress with the provision of the kind of provisions | :56:56. | :56:58. | |
that the honourable gentlem`n described. 51% of the listed Church | :56:59. | :57:08. | |
of England churches and his consistent -- constituency have made | :57:09. | :57:12. | |
those provisions. Monday the 11th of July will be the | :57:13. | :57:25. | |
second day and the conclusion of consideration in committee of the | :57:26. | :57:30. | |
Wales Bill. On Tuesday 12th July, we will have an opposition day on | :57:31. | :57:39. | |
Ocean, subject to be announced. Wednesday, motion to approvd a | :57:40. | :57:40. |