Formal Minutes
Tuesday 17 March 2015
Members present:
Miss Anne McIntosh, in the Chair
| Richard Drax
Jim Fitzpatrick
Mrs Mary Glindon
| | Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
Sheryll Murray
Neil Parish
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Draft Report (Work of the Committee: 2010-15),
proposed by the Chair, brought up and read.
Ordered, That the draft
Report be read a second time, paragraph by paragraph.
Paragraphs 1 to 26 read and agreed to.
Paragraph 27 read.
Amendment proposed, to insert on page 18, para 27,
line 22, after "waste": "Our Committee also heard
evidence on food affordability and its link to the expanding food
aid sector. Factors identified as affecting food affordability
included rising global prices and pressure on household incomes
resulting from wage pressures, benefit delays and sanctions."—(Mrs
Emma Lewell-Buck.)
Question put, that the Amendment be made.
The Committee divided.
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Ayes, 3
Jim Fitzpatrick
Mrs Mary Glindon
Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
| | Noes, 3
Richard Drax
Sheryll Murray
Neil Parish
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Whereupon the Chair declared herself with the Noes.
Question accordingly negatived.
Amendment proposed to insert on page 18, para 27,
line 22, after "waste.": "Our Committee also heard
evidence on food affordability and its link to the expanding food
aid sector. Factors identified as affecting food affordability
included rising global prices and pressure on household incomes."—(Miss
Anne McIntosh.)
Question put, that the Amendment be made.
The Committee divided.
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Ayes, 5
Richard Drax
Jim Fitzpatrick
Mrs Mary Glindon
Sheryll Murray
Neil Parish
| | Noes, 1
Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
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Question agreed to.
Paragraph 27, as amended, agreed to.
Paragraphs 28 to 69 read and agreed to.
Resolved, That the Report
be the Ninth Report of the Committee to the House.
Ordered, That the Chair
make the Report to the House.
Ordered, That embargoed
copies of the Report be made available, in accordance with the
provisions of Standing Order No. 134.
Written evidence from Natural England was ordered
to be reported to the House for publication on the internet.
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[Adjourned till Wednesday 25 March at 2.30 pm
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