Locally Produced Food (EDM180)

Locally Produced Food

EDM number 180 in 2008-09, proposed by Mark Williams on 08/12/2008.
Categorised under the topics of Agriculture and Food.

That this House pays tribute to the range of excellent locally-produced food available across the United Kingdom; acknowledges that transporting food over long distances is bad for the environment; salutes the work of the farmers' markets and food festivals in promoting the regional variety and freshness of food; congratulates Trethowan's Dairy in Llanddewi Brefi and Teifi Farmhouse Cheese in Llandysul on using traditional methods to produce their award-winning cheese; encourages supermarkets, schools and the public sector more generally to source much more of their food locally; and calls upon the Government to provide extra funding to regional development agencies, tourist boards and other local bodies to support the production and sale of food locally.

This motion has been signed by a total of 34 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
Mark Williams	08/12/2008	Ceredigion	Liberal Democrat	Proposed
Mike Hancock	09/12/2008	Portsmouth South	Liberal Democrat	Seconded
Bob Spink	09/12/2008	Castle Point	Independent	Seconded
Mark Durkan	09/12/2008	Foyle	Social Democratic and Labour Party	Seconded
Sandra Gidley	09/12/2008	Romsey	Liberal Democrat	Seconded
John Leech	09/12/2008	Manchester, Withington	Liberal Democrat	Seconded
Andrew George	09/12/2008	St Ives	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Ann Cryer	09/12/2008	Keighley	Labour	Signed
Jeremy Corbyn	09/12/2008	Islington North	Labour	Signed
John McDonnell	09/12/2008	Hayes and Harlington	Labour	Signed
Nick Harvey	10/12/2008	North Devon	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Ronnie Campbell	10/12/2008	Blyth Valley	Labour	Signed
Martin Caton	10/12/2008	Gower	Labour	Signed
David Drew	10/12/2008	Stroud	Labour	Signed
Jo Swinson	10/12/2008	East Dunbartonshire	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Stephen Williams	10/12/2008	Bristol West	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Willie Rennie	10/12/2008	Dunfermline and West Fife	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Alan Simpson	11/12/2008	Nottingham South	Labour	Signed
John Hemming	11/12/2008	Birmingham, Yardley	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Brian Jenkins	11/12/2008	Tamworth	Labour	Signed
John Horam	15/12/2008	Orpington	Conservative	Signed
Janet Dean	16/12/2008	Burton	Labour	Signed
Bill Etherington	16/12/2008	Sunderland North	Labour	Signed
George Galloway	16/12/2008	Bethnal Green and Bow	Respect	Signed
Laura Moffatt	17/12/2008	Crawley	Labour	Signed
Greg Mulholland	17/12/2008	Leeds North West	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Paul Rowen	12/01/2009	Rochdale	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Greg Pope	14/01/2009	Hyndburn	Labour	Signed
Rudi Vis	19/01/2009	Finchley and Golders Green	Labour	Signed
Adam Price	26/01/2009	Carmarthen East and Dinefwr	Plaid Cymru	Signed
Albert Owen	27/01/2009	Ynys M	Labour	Signed
Andy Reed	05/03/2009	Loughborough	Labour	Signed
Eddie McGrady	20/03/2009	South Down	Social Democratic and Labour Party	Signed
Michael Jabez Foster	Unknown			Withdrawn

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