Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee

17 March 2026

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Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee House of Commons

00:03 - 00:47
Speaker 1
Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to this meeting of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee, coming to you today from Harper Adams University and please formally on record our gratitude to the university authorities for hosting us here today.  We returned today to our inquiry into animal and plant health, looking in particular at the future of the veterinary profession.  We have a distinguished panel for us this afternoon.  Just for the benefit of our own official record and for those who will be following our proceedings, can I invite you all, maybe starting with yourself, Tim, to introduce yourselves to the panel?  Thank you. 
00:48 - 00:53
Speaker 2
Tim Parking, current RCBS President.  You should note, I'm also Head of School at Bristol Veteran School. 
00:55 - 01:03
Speaker 3
Matt Jones.  I'm the head of the Harper and Keel vet school.  I've been here since our inception in in 2019 for students in 2020. 
01:04 - 01:14
Speaker 4
And Caroline Orgo.  I'm dean of veterinary medicine for Scotland's rural colleges, SRUC, and also the head of school of veterinary medicine biosciences. 

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