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Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Farmers (Suicides) (29 Oct 2009) has video

Jane Kennedy: What representations he has received on the number of suicides amongst farmers whose cattle herds are subject to bovine tuberculosis movement and testing restrictions; and if he will make a statement.

Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Farmers (Suicides) (29 Oct 2009) has video

Jane Kennedy: I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for that answer. Will he consider the recommendations in the detail of the report, alongside the good work that the Department is doing on cattle movements and testing regimes? In particular, will he look at the impact on farmers whose herds are subject to testing every 60 days? That happens in some cases, and it is a devastating regime for the farm and...

Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Topical Questions (29 Oct 2009) has video

Jane Kennedy: May I ask my hon. Friend the Minister to reinforce what he said in the earlier part of Question Time by gently saying to Lord Stern that, during British sausage week, we celebrate a varied diet and the value that it brings; that it should be a question of "all things in moderation"; and that if it is being suggested that vegetarianism will save the world, I am not sure that it is a world in...

Oral Answers to Questions — Communities and Local Government: Topical Questions (27 Oct 2009) has video

Jane Kennedy: Was my right hon. Friend the Housing Minister as angry as I was to learn that, notwithstanding 23,000 people looking for affordable homes in Liverpool, the Liberal Democrats rejected a project for 60 new homes by a housing co-operative on the grounds that there was no such need in the city?

Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Iran's Nuclear Programme (20 Oct 2009)

Jane Kennedy: What his latest assessment is of developments in Iran's nuclear programme; and if he will make a statement.

Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Iran's Nuclear Programme (20 Oct 2009)

Jane Kennedy: Does my right hon. Friend share the frustration of many ordinary people in Iran—they have shared this with me by e-mail—with the regime's complete refusal to engage with the international community on this issue? The regime is led by someone who not only denies the holocaust, but denies his own people a democratic outcome. Will my right hon. Friend consider what unilateral steps...

Oral Answers to Questions — Children, Schools and Families: Topical Questions (12 Oct 2009) has video

Jane Kennedy: May I commend the work of Booktrust to my right hon. Friend, particularly the work of Irene Mandelkow, the Bookstart co-ordinator in Liverpool? She and her team have increased the number of pre-school children registered with libraries tenfold in the past 10 years.

Mr. Michael Shields (15 Jul 2009)

Jane Kennedy: I strongly support the comments of my hon. Friend the Member for Liverpool, Riverside (Mrs. Ellman). My right hon. Friend said that he will not comment on the detail of the matter, but when I read the police report that he commissioned and invited to be undertaken, I was struck by the strength of opinion. There are not many police officers—I have worked with many—who have taken...

Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Dairy Farmers of Britain (2 Jul 2009) has video

Jane Kennedy: What a pleasure it is to see you in the Chair, Mr. Speaker. May I ask my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State to pass on my welcome to my two colleagues who have joined him on the Front Bench? Food and food production are far too important to be left entirely to the advocacy of Members with rural constituencies. They are of importance to everyone. I noted my right hon. Friend's response...

Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Topical Questions (2 Jul 2009) has video

Jane Kennedy: May I urge my right hon. Friend to hold to his intention of responding to the consultation on the so-called replacement insecticide with a voluntary scheme that will be workable and achievable and which will demonstrate our willingness to trust the farming community, which shares our concerns about the impact of agriculture on the environment?

Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Agricultural Labour (21 May 2009) has video

Jane Kennedy: May I say on behalf of those who come to Prayers that it is a little disconcerting to have the blinds run up and down during them, particularly as we need all the help we can get these days and Prayers are quite important? At the end of last year, in response to concerns expressed by the industry about shortages of seasonal labour, the Government announced a 5,000 increase in the seasonal...

Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Agricultural Labour (21 May 2009) has video

Jane Kennedy: I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for raising the matter. We are being advised that there is more confidence among farmers and growers this year that they will have sufficient labour for seasonal fruit and vegetable harvesting, largely due to the economic climate in which they are operating. However, I can assure him that we keep the situation under close review. Indeed, all being well, my...

Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Zero-grazing (21 May 2009) has video

Jane Kennedy: The permanent housing of cattle is an emerging farming system in the UK. We are funding a three-year research project with the Scottish Agricultural College to investigate the management and welfare of continuously housed dairy cows. The study will include a comparison of the health of cows in continuously housed systems with that of those in summer grazing systems.

Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Zero-grazing (21 May 2009) has video

Jane Kennedy: I agree that the dairy sector is under intense pressure at the moment. I also agree with the hon. Gentleman's general comments about the concern that exists about the welfare of cattle in those systems, but I do not accept that the zero-grazing of cattle is inherently cruel or unacceptable. It is important to recognise that poor standards of animal health and welfare can exist in intensive...

Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Zero-grazing (21 May 2009) has video

Jane Kennedy: Before we categorise the dairy sector as predominantly continuously housed, let me point out that the industry estimates that about 5 per cent. of herds have some cattle that are housed all year round. Dairy cattle are already ordinarily kept indoors during the winter when conditions are unsuitable for them to go outside. My hon. Friend is right to raise that concern, as is the hon. Member...

Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Zero-grazing (21 May 2009) has video

Jane Kennedy: I accept the concerns that have been raised, but I am reluctant to pass judgment on farmers who are delivering high standards of animal health and welfare in some intensive farming systems, including those involving continuously housed dairy cows. We need to get the results of the study we are undertaking with our Scottish partners, so that we can understand the impact of the trend on the...

Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Pig Industry (21 May 2009) has video

Jane Kennedy: I met Mr. Stuart Houston, the chairman of the National Pig Association, at Morrisons' new abattoir in Spalding, which I was privileged to open last week. We discussed the progress of the pigmeat supply chain taskforce, whose first meeting my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State opened on 18 March 2009. The taskforce brings together key representatives from all sectors in the pigmeat...

Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Pig Industry (21 May 2009) has video

Jane Kennedy: I entirely agree. There is ample evidence that British consumers actively choose products that have been raised to higher welfare standards. For example, sales of free range eggs continue to grow, even in the challenging economic climate in which we find ourselves. One of the sub-groups of the taskforce that we have established will examine the role of labelling and investigate the progress...

Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Pig Industry (21 May 2009) has video

Jane Kennedy: I entirely agree with the hon. Gentleman, and I have met a probably quite significant number of his constituents who have made that very point. That is why the work of this taskforce will be very important. I note his lament that we did not get working sooner than we did, but I assure him that the taskforce is very focused on bringing about practical outcomes that will materially assist pig...