Horticultural sector
Inquiry by the Horticultural Sector Committee, 1 February 2023 to 26 October 2023. Its page on the Parliament website.
Reports and responses
- Report - Sowing the seeds: A blooming English horticultural sector (6 November 2023)
- UK Government response to Lords Horticultural Sector Committee report-Session 2022-23 (12 February 2024)
Evidence sessions
- 9 March 2023: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs
- 16 March 2023: Horticultural Trades Association; Royal Horticultural Society; National Farmers Union
- 23 March 2023: Landex; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
- 23 March 2023: John Shropshire, Independent Review Into Labour Shortages in the Food Supply Chain; The Institute for Agriculture and Horticulture
- 30 March 2023: Horticulture Week; LEAF (Linking Environment And Farming)
- 30 March 2023: Chatham House; Climate Change Committee; Dr Chris Thorogood, Oxford University
- 20 April 2023: British Garden Centres; Beards & Daisies; Hillier Nurseries
- 20 April 2023: Stocks Farm; British Growers Association; Newey Group; West Sussex Growers' Association
- 11 May 2023: Gangmaster and Labour Abuse Authority; Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration; Office of the Director of Labour Market Enforcement
- 11 May 2023: Caroline Robinson, Human Rights Consultant; Work Rights Centre; Focus on Labour Exploitation (FLEX)
- 18 May 2023: Women in Horticulture; Thrive
- 18 May 2023: Young People in Horticulture Association; Tayshan Hayden-Smith, Grow2Know; Lee Connelly
- 8 June 2023: Royal Horticultural Society; Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
- 8 June 2023: National Institute for Agricultural Botany; Water UK; Environment Agency
- 15 June 2023: Bristol Food Producers; Dr Jill Edmondson, University of Sheffield; The National Allotment Society
- 15 June 2023: British Association of Landscape Industries (BALI); Black Environment Network; Social Farms and Gardens
- 22 June 2023: National Academy for Social Prescribing; Professor David Rose, Royal Agricultural University; Annabelle Padwick, Life at No.27
- 22 June 2023: Emiliano Mellino, Bureau of Investigative Journalism; Vadim Sardov; Andrey Okhrimenko; Sybil Msezane
- 6 July 2023: Ball Colegrave; Fresh Produce Consortium; The Horticultural Trades Association (HTA)
- 6 July 2023: Soil Association; EJ Godwin
- 13 July 2023: Pro-Force; Fruitful Jobs; Concordia
- 20 July 2023: Mark White
- 20 July 2023: Tesco
- 7 September 2023: Mark Spencer, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs