National Food Crisis

1917 to 1947

three mentions

over 30 years

and whether, in view of the National Food Crisis, he can undertake that no further shepherds will be called to the Colours?

_{Farm Workers.}

Mr. LOUGH - March 5, 1917

whether he is 630 aware that on 6th March the secretary of the Railway Executive was asked if the facilities for removing strawberries during the coming season would be restricted, and replied in the affirmative; that on the strength of that statement certain growers in the Swanwick district were induced to alter their cropping, and that since that date the manager of the London and South-Western Railway has assured Swanwick growers that the usual facilities for dealing with the strawberry traffic will be forthcoming during the coming season; whether, in view of the National Food Crisis, he will explain why the Swanwick growers, who are trying their best to help the country by changing their cropping, should be discouraged from so doing by the action of the manager of the London and South-Western Railway Company; and whether, in view of the restricted supply of trucks and rolling stock, it is proposed to afford the usual facilities for dealing with the traffic of what is an obvious luxury?

_{Strawberry Growing (Transit Facilities).}

Colonel WEIGALL - March 20, 1917

The Clause is for use equally in the case of a National Food Crisis in peacetime.

_{Orders Of The Day — Agriculture Bill}

The Solicitor-General - June 9, 1947

1999

two mentions

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further notes that the extra costs imposed through regulation and public health protection that fall directly on the industry should more properly come from the public health budget; deplores the failure of the Government to provide an adequate response to This National Food Crisis; and therefore calls on the Government to recognise that its latest financial package is insufficient to tackle the fundamental restructuring of UK and EU agriculture policy, necessary for a secure future for British farmers, consumers and the countryside.

_{Food And Farming}

Mr. Charles Kennedy - Oct. 20, 1999

I beg to move,That this House notes with dismay the plight of British farmers whose incomes have plummeted to record lows in the last four years, as a result of higher costs and lower farm gate prices producing rapidly increasing losses, despite continually high supermarket profit margins and costs to consumers; further notes that the extra costs imposed through regulation and public health protection that fall directly on the industry should more properly come from the public health budget; deplores the failure of the Government to provide an adequate response to This National Food Crisis; and therefore calls on the Government to recognise that its latest financial package is insufficient to tackle the fundamental restructuring of UK and EU agriculture policy, necessary for a secure future for British farmers, consumers and the countryside.

_{Opposition Day - Food And Farming}

Mr. Charles Kennedy - Oct. 20, 1999