against enabling the courts to deal with proceedings for the divorce of a same-sex couple and against making same-sex marriage available to armed forces personnel outside the UK. After the 2015 general election, he was returned unopposed as the chairman of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee. Parish was opposed to Brexit prior to the 2016 referendum. In 2016 he received the annual Dairy UK Award together with Heather Wheeler MP for their support of dairy farmers and the industry. While an MP, Parish continued to live on the family farm in Somerset and declared a financial interest in it. Pornography investigation On 25 April 2022, a group of female Conservative MPs met with the Government Chief Whip Chris Heaton-Harris to complain about sexism in parliament. In the course of the discussion one female MP spoke out alleging that a un-named male colleague had been watching pornography next to her in the House of Commons. Initial media reporting likewise did not name the MP. Before he had been publicly identified as the accused MP, Parish was interviewed on GB News and said that the MP should be "dealt with and dealt with seriously". On 29 April Parish had the Conservative whip withdrawn after being accused of watching pornography on a personal mobile phone in the Commons chamber. Parish referred himself to the Commons Select Committee on Standards following the removal of the whip. The allegation was made by a female Conservative minister, and later corroborated by another unnamed MP. Initially, Parish said that he might have viewed the pornography by mistake. He subsequently told the BBC that he had watched pornography in the Palace of Westminster on two occasions, first accidentally and then deliberately. He said that he had been initially looking at a website about tractors; allies of Parish suggested he may have been looking at Claas Dominator tractors, a brand of combine harvesters. According to Parish, he then reached "another website with a very similar name" and "watched for a bit". He said: "My crime – biggest crime – is that on another occasion I went in a second time ... that was [while] sitting waiting to vote." On 30 April 2022, Parish announced his intention to resign as an MP, which triggered the 2022 Tiverton and Honiton by-election. Labour's Angela Rayner tweeted: "He was looking for tractors but ended up with porn actors? Neil Parish