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      <title>MPs take further evidence on bovine TB</title>
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      <title>Remaining Commons stages of the Groceries Code Adjudicator Bill</title>
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      <description>MPs debate report stage and third reading of Bill on 26 February</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 10:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Westminster Hall debates: 26 February 2013</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Third evidence session on &amp;#39;A Severn Barrage?&amp;#39;</title>
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      <description>Energy and Climate Change Committee hears evidence on Thursday 28 February 2013</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 15:58:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>MPs criticise government inaction on dog attacks and poor dog welfare</title>
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      <description>Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee publishes report on Dog Control and Welfare</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 00:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Urgent question on horsemeat</title>
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      <description>Shadow Environment Secretary asked question on police action</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 15:40:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>MPs call for more testing of food safety and composition across the food industry</title>
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      <description>Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee concludes FSA needs clear powers and responsibilities so that it can respond more effectively to any future food adulteration scandal</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 00:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>MPs take evidence on flood defence funding and related issues</title>
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      <description>Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee holds oral evidence session on Wednesday 13 February 2013</description>
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      <title>Opposition debate on horsemeat</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Westminster Hall debates: 12 February 2013</title>
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      <description>MPs debated manufacturing in East Midlands and more</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Statement on horsemeat and food fraud</title>
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      <description>Environment Secretary&amp;#39;s statement updated the Commons</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2013 17:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>MPs to take evidence on bovine TB and Schmallenberg</title>
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      <description>The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee will take evidence from FERA, the AHVLA and Defra in the first evidence session of its inquiry into the vaccination of badgers and cattle against bovine TB</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 11:09:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>MPs take further oral evidence on insects and insecticides</title>
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      <description>Environmental Audit Committee takes evidence from European Food Safety Authority, agronomists and the UK Pesticides Campaign </description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>FSA, Iceland, Tesco, and government ministers to give evidence on contamination of beef products</title>
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      <description>Environment Food and Rural Affairs Committee to take evidence on 30 January </description>
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      <title>Environmental Audit Committee takes further oral evidence on insects and insecticides </title>
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      <description>Bayer Cropscience back before MPs to give further evidence on pesticides that could be harmful to bees</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2013 12:48:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Westminster Hall debates: 29 January 2013</title>
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      <description>MPs debated the RSPCA, financial assistance to opposition parties and more</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Commons Private Members&amp;#39; Bills: 18 January 2013</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2013 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Urgent question on horsemeat in supermarket products</title>
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      <description>Minister responded to question in the Commons</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2013 09:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Lords debates decline of honey bees</title>
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      <description>Measures to combat prevalence of disease in honey bee colonies on agenda</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2013 16:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>Under-Secretary of State made statement in Commons</description>
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