division_name: Agriculture Bill
motion: <p class="indent" pid="b161.5/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;this House, whilst recognising that on leaving the EU the UK needs to shift agricultural support from land-based payments to the delivery of environmental and other public benefits, declines to give a Second Reading to the Agriculture Bill because it fails to   provide a strategy to safeguard the nation&#8217;s food supply at a time when food poverty and foodbank demand are rising rapidly alongside an epidemic in food-related health inequality, fails to recognise the central importance of UK sustainable food production and supply, leading to a greater reliance on imports, while failing to provide for controls over the production methods, working conditions, or animal welfare and environmental standards in countries from which the UK&#8217;s food is imported, and, when the natural environment is in crisis, with species decline at an alarming scale, soil degradation and increasingly volatile and extreme weather conditions driven by escalating climate change, provides the Secretary of State with wide-ranging powers but no duties or legally enforceable environmental protection targets, whilst giving Parliament limited ability to scrutinise any changes in the regime, and fails to legislate for current funding to continue until 2022 as Ministers have promised; and is of the opinion that the publication of such a Bill should have been preceded by a full process of pre-legislative scrutiny of a draft Bill.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b164.3/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;effected nothing less than a revolution in British agriculture&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b164.3/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;his place in history is assured as the greatest British Minister of Agriculture of all time&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b164.3/8" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;promoting and maintaining...a stable and efficient agricultural industry capable of producing such part of the nation&#8217;s food and other agricultural produce as in the national interest it is desirable to produce in the United Kingdom, and of producing it at   minimum prices consistently with proper remuneration and living conditions for farmers and workers in agriculture and an adequate return on capital invested in the industry.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b164.3/10" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;a fair standard of living for the agricultural community&#8230;the availability of supplies&#8221;,</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b164.3/12" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;supplies reach consumers at reasonable prices.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b171.3/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Rationing means a fair share for all of us&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b172.0/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;The Scottish Government&#8217;s climate change ambitions&#8230;pose a bigger threat&#8230;than Brexit&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b172.3/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;DEFRA has not been able to make progress in supporting business in their preparations,&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b172.3/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;there is no guidance on Defra&#8217;s website for businesses exporting food products to the EU. Some of these may have to apply for an export health certificate for the first time and change trading routes so that their products enter the EU through a border inspection post.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b172.3/8" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;DEFRA does not have a clear vision either for the new services and functions it has to introduce or for the organisation as a whole post-EU Exit&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b172.3/10" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;DEFRA is at high risk of being unable to deliver a full and functioning statute book by end March 2019&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b173.1/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;PGIs present quite serious difficulties in free-trade negotiations because some nations regard them as unfair protection or non-tariff barriers to trade.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b189.2/8" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;a fairer share of the food pound&#8221;,</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b195.3/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Scottish Ministers will not have total freedom to apply domestic support as they see fit if the Secretary of State makes regulations setting limits in relation to WTO classifications.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b195.3/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;it would not be a legitimate use of regulation-making power to prescribe within the limits how Scottish Ministers would be able to exercise the powers to apply support.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b208.0/7" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;does not incorporate external effects on society and the environment.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b208.0/10" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Food production is ultimately about health.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b214.0/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;withering away in their own homes&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b219.0/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;mitigating or adapting to climate change&#8221;,</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b219.0/8" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;cultural heritage or natural heritage&#8221;&#8212;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b219.0/10" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;improving the productivity of&#8230;an agricultural&#8230;activity&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b219.0/15" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Financial assistance may be given by way of grant, loan, guarantee or in any other form.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b235.0/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;the purpose of starting, or improving the productivity of, an agricultural, horticultural or forestry activity.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b244.0/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Authorise new expenditure for certain agricultural and other purposes&#8230;to make provision about the acquisition and use of information connected with food supply chains; to confer power to respond to exceptional market conditions affecting agricultural markets,&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b244.0/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;to make provision for the recognition of associations of agricultural producers&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="italic" pid="b246.1/5" pwmotiontext="yes">The House divided:</p>
  
  <p pid="b246.1/6" pwmotiontext="yes">Ayes 227, Noes 286.</p>