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Foot and Mouth/Bluetongue

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

464 c39-56 

Session

2006-07

Department

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

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Proceeding contributions

Speaker | 464 c56 (Link to this contribution) Order. I appreciate that these are important matters, but we must move on to other business.

Speaker | 464 c52 (Link to this contribution) Doug Hoyle

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Hilary Benn | 464 c52 (Link to this contribution) I am happy to write to the hon. Gentleman with our current best assessment of what we think those ec...

Lindsay Hoyle | 464 c52-3 (Link to this contribution) Lindsay—I am looking older, but not quite that old, Mr. Deputy Speaker. At least, I hope that I do n...

Hilary Benn | 464 c39-41 (Link to this contribution) With permission, Mr. Speaker, I should like to make a statement on this summer's outbreak of foot an...

Hilary Benn | 464 c50 (Link to this contribution) As my hon. Friend is aware, a lot of those decisions already fall to the Scottish Executive and one ...

Michael Jack | 464 c50 (Link to this contribution) I, too, thank the Secretary of State and his Ministers for keeping me closely posted of developments...

Hilary Benn | 464 c50 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for his kind words, and I will pass on exactly what he has...

Paddy Tipping | 464 c50 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Secretary of State's comments about involving farmers and stakeholders in wider discus...

Hilary Benn | 464 c50-1 (Link to this contribution) I agree, particularly with the last point. In the end, we have to strike a balance, and we have all ...

Angus Brendan MacNeil | 464 c51 (Link to this contribution) As a humble and active crofter, I declare an interest. In Scotland, we have 250,000 lambs stuck on h...

Hilary Benn | 464 c51 (Link to this contribution) I am indeed conscious of the last point that the hon. Gentleman makes. Of course, as he says, the Sc...

Nick Ainger | 464 c51-2 (Link to this contribution) A number of colleagues have already referred to this happening at the worst time possible for the fa...

Hilary Benn | 464 c52 (Link to this contribution) The resumption of live exports is some way away yet; that will depend on the passage of time followi...

Roger Williams | 464 c52 (Link to this contribution) I draw the House's attention to my declarations of interest as a livestock farmer. The losses suffe...

David Curry | 464 c53 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Secretary of State for his visit to Skipton market in my constituency and for t...

Hilary Benn | 464 c53-4 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for joining me at Skipton market last Thursday, where he m...

Hilary Benn | 464 c53 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a good point. At the beginning of this outbreak, I spoke to the heads of all th...

Baroness Browning | 464 c54 (Link to this contribution) On foot and mouth, the Secretary of State mentioned the contamination of the drains and the spread o...

Hilary Benn | 464 c54-5 (Link to this contribution) I do not know whether the hon. Lady is referring to spoil within the Pirbright site. ... The Health ...

Gary Streeter | 464 c55 (Link to this contribution) Given that the bluetongue virus has been at large on the continent for several years, is there not a...

Hilary Benn | 464 c55 (Link to this contribution) No, we do not. The hon. Gentleman makes a really good point. I discussed that precise issue with the...

Hilary Benn | 464 c56 (Link to this contribution) I know that there have been such schemes in the past. The right hon. Gentleman will, in fairness, re...

Lord Bellingham | 464 c56 (Link to this contribution) Bluetongue has the capacity totally to devastate the livestock industry, not just in East Anglia but...

Hilary Benn | 464 c56 (Link to this contribution) No, I have not. I accept entirely the point that the hon. Gentleman makes about the nature of the th...

Lord Beith | 464 c55-6 (Link to this contribution) Bearing in mind the impact that the devastating market conditions are having on Northumbrian farmers...

Chris Huhne | 464 c45-6 (Link to this contribution) The source of this outbreak of foot and mouth was the Pirbright laboratory, which is regulated, moni...

Hilary Benn | 464 c45 (Link to this contribution) The contingency plan for foot and mouth stated that we would consider whether vaccination had a part...

Eric Martlew | 464 c45 (Link to this contribution) It was very interesting that the Secretary of State mentioned the vaccine for bluetongue. As he is a...

Hilary Benn | 464 c43-5 (Link to this contribution) I have to tell the hon. Gentleman that his conduct during the summer, when we spoke on a number of o...

Peter Ainsworth | 464 c41-3 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Secretary of State for his statement and welcome the relief package that he has announce...

Graham Stuart | 464 c43 (Link to this contribution) Answer all the questions. ... What about the drains at Pirbright?

Gordon Banks | 464 c49-50 (Link to this contribution) Can my right hon. Friend advise the House whether he has any plans to pass to the Scottish Executive...

Hilary Benn | 464 c49 (Link to this contribution) I do not wish to disappoint the hon. Gentleman, but as he is aware, it has been the policy of Govern...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 464 c49 (Link to this contribution) Quite rightly, the focus of attention today has been on the economic damage to the livestock farming...

Hilary Benn | 464 c49 (Link to this contribution) I hope that the payments will be made by the beginning of November and, like my hon. Friend, I am an...

Geraldine Smith | 464 c48-9 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased that the Secretary of State has listened to farmers and done something about the terrib...

Hilary Benn | 464 c48 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his kind words and his support and interest during what has ...

Hilary Benn | 464 c48 (Link to this contribution) In paying tribute to the fortitude of the farmers, the smallholders and the villagers of Normandy in...

Hilary Benn | 464 c48 (Link to this contribution) Yes. The epidemiological report that was published suggested that the lesions in the animals at infe...

Russell Brown | 464 c47 (Link to this contribution) Had it not been for the fact that a third outbreak was detected on 12 September, we would have been ...

Hilary Benn | 464 c46-7 (Link to this contribution) On the question of legal obligations, in the end, that is a matter for the courts to determine. We a...

Subjects

Bureaucracy Finance Exports Disease control Foot and mouth disease Government assistance Livestock Meat Marketing Transport Hill farming Beef East of England Livestock industry Institute for Animal Health Surrey Bluetongue disease National fallen stock collection and disposal scheme

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