Speeches by Eagle.
Every Hansard contribution by Angela Eagle this parliament, most recent first. Back to the MP page for the headline figures and analysed positions.
Showing 181–200 of 826 contributions · most-recent first
| Date | Debate & contribution | Words |
|---|---|---|
| 16 Dec 2025 | Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 527) “We have to farm more sustainably. We will increase productivity and results if we can improve soil health, for example.” | 20 |
| 16 Dec 2025 | Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 589) “There is farming representation.” | 4 |
| 16 Dec 2025 | Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 589) “Some of it is about access in poorer areas to food that is affordable. Some of it is about education, as you were talking about, and teaching people how they can cook from scratch. There is often not much time to cook from scratch. Breaking the junk food cycle is also important. Some of that is about incentivising food…” | 128 |
| 16 Dec 2025 | Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 527) “There are ways to do it, which I am currently considering.” | 11 |
| 16 Dec 2025 | Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 589) “We published on 11 December the first UK food security digest, which is intended to update the public on a selected range of priority indicators that are of a high interest or highly variable in the years when the main UK food security report is not published. We are keeping an eye on all this. We have to maintain our …” | 76 |
| 16 Dec 2025 | Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 589) “That is the first I have heard of it. I do not know who is putting that rumour around. The intention is to have a food strategy. If somebody is saying that, it is the first I have heard of it. That does not mean it is not true.” | 49 |
| 16 Dec 2025 | Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 527) “Absolutely, yes. Some of the constraints we have are in our IT. It was ever thus. If you look at the distribution of what has been bought with these schemes in the past, we have over-bought various things, such as herbal leys.” | 42 |
| 16 Dec 2025 | Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 589) “That is an issue for the Chancellor. The thing about things like the sugar tax is that they incentivise the food industry to recalibrate the way it makes and produces particular foods to reduce sugar, in this case, and reformulate what it does. There are also issues with salt and other unhealthy ingredients. Working cl…” | 168 |
| 16 Dec 2025 | Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 589) “It is the World Food Summit definition of food security. I have it written down here. It is the 1996 World Food Summit definition, which the Secretary of State read out for you as well. I will not waste your time by reading it into the record again.” | 48 |
| 16 Dec 2025 | Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 527) “You heard me talk about the distribution of the current scheme, where 25% of the funding has gone to 4% of farmers. That is not a distribution that will help deliver our environmental improvement requirements and I do not think that it is fair. Therefore, I am looking to see what we can do to have more of a focus on sm…” | 211 |
| 16 Dec 2025 | Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 527) “Yes.” | 1 |
| 16 Dec 2025 | Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 589) “It is about price, but it is also about production, productivity and producing food that is nutritious without having to spend as much to do it. Some of that is about input prices. Some of it is about energy prices. It is a very complex issue, but it is certainly one that we have eyes on across Government.” | 58 |
| 16 Dec 2025 | Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 527) “There is massive potential to grow, not only with respect to our food production and food manufacturing. Let us not forget that area of food production, because it is many more jobs. It is the largest manufacturing sector in the country. The potential for change, with adoption of new agritech, new farming methods, prec…” | 111 |
| 16 Dec 2025 | Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 611) “If you are asking me to increase the compensation payments because they are not adequate, I hear what you are saying, but I would rather get to the stage where we can do some prevention. I would rather spend Government money on sorting out prevention than increase compensation. Short of the general reviews of these thi…” | 72 |
| 16 Dec 2025 | Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 611) “The system that we have chosen is in line with the EU system. We do not want to have to do something different and then have to change it again.” | 30 |
| 16 Dec 2025 | Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 527) “If I could put it this way, the Department I am now in looks at the air we breathe, the water we drink and the food we eat. I cannot think of anything more important. Politically and economically, it is not seen as being as important as that, simply because the percentage of GDP and the number of people employed is muc…” | 226 |
| 16 Dec 2025 | Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 611) “That is devolution for you.” | 5 |
| 16 Dec 2025 | Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 611) “Out of the hundreds of SIs that I am expected to do in the next few months, that is one that I am particularly looking forward to.” | 27 |
| 16 Dec 2025 | Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 611) “There are lots of phone calls, believe it or not.” | 10 |
| 16 Dec 2025 | Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 611) “Well, Apple already has that, but not when it comes to cows.” | 12 |