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HANSARD Future of FishingI will take another intervention from my colleague and then go to the other side of the Chamber.05 Nov 2024HANSARD Future of FishingMy hon. Friend raises an important point and allows me to follow up on the points raised by the shadow Minister, the hon. Member for Keighley and Ilkley (Robbie Moore), which I…05 Nov 2024HANSARD Future of FishingI would be delighted if you were to resolve all these issues, Mr Efford, but it falls to me. The hon. Member tempts me into a wider discussion about the reset with the European…05 Nov 2024HANSARD Budget: Implications for Farming CommunitiesThe hon. Lady will know that farming policy is different in Scotland, but on the tax issues, which are UK-wide, that is absolutely right, but I would suggest that she gets her…04 Nov 2024HANSARD Budget: Implications for Farming CommunitiesIt is very good to see my near neighbour. What I will say to Cambridgeshire farmers is that the thing they need most of all is a stable economy, and they also need a sound…04 Nov 2024HANSARD Budget: Implications for Farming CommunitiesThe hon. Gentleman makes an important point. The people of this country suffered gravely under the last Government, and we will do nothing to make their situation more difficult.…04 Nov 2024HANSARD Budget: Implications for Farming CommunitiesExtreme weather events have clearly become a growing challenge for us all, which is part of the reason that we are so determined to make the transition to a more environmentally…04 Nov 2024HANSARD Budget: Implications for Farming CommunitiesI look forward to many more such exchanges over the Dispatch Box with the hon. Gentleman. What I said earlier was that on my many visits around the country, people consistently…04 Nov 2024HANSARD Budget: Implications for Farming CommunitiesMy hon. Friend is absolutely right; many people in this country, and many farmers in particular, are struggling to get by. That is why it is very important that in this Budget we…04 Nov 2024HANSARD Budget: Implications for Farming CommunitiesI thank my hon. Friend, who is another of my near neighbours. I did not use to have many near neighbours who were anywhere near as friendly as my new near neighbours, but…04 Nov 2024HANSARD Budget: Implications for Farming CommunitiesI remember those awful times very well. “Money is no object” is not something that was said by my party, I can tell her; it was said by the now Opposition, and perhaps it was not…04 Nov 2024HANSARD Budget: Implications for Farming CommunitiesI love visiting farms all over the country, and I am sure North Dorset will feature on my list at some point in the future. On this whole question of optimism, pessimism and the…04 Nov 2024HANSARD Budget: Implications for Farming CommunitiesIt was striking that under the previous Government the agriculture budget was so substantially underspent. We are fixing that and making it possible for people to access those…04 Nov 2024HANSARD Budget: Implications for Farming CommunitiesI thank my hon. Friend for raising that important point, because among the many, many stressful things for farmers is not just the weather of the past few years, but the disease…04 Nov 2024HANSARD Budget: Implications for Farming CommunitiesThe hon. Gentleman may wish to remember that the agricultural transition was embarked upon by the previous Government. It is a seven-year transition process, and we are just over…04 Nov 2024HANSARD Budget: Implications for Farming CommunitiesI am grateful to my hon. Friend. The schemes we have in place will help us to work with farmers on those issues—alongside, of course, the payment of the £60 million that the…04 Nov 2024HANSARD Budget: Implications for Farming CommunitiesI do not think it is my assessment, but that of the voters, who made it very clear.04 Nov 2024HANSARD Budget: Implications for Farming CommunitiesI think the hon. Lady should wait a bit longer to see transport improvements—it has only been a week. The level has been set by the Treasury based on the figures that we have, to…04 Nov 2024HANSARD Budget: Implications for Farming CommunitiesThe last farmer I spoke to over the weekend congratulated me on what we were doing.04 Nov 2024HANSARD Budget: Implications for Farming CommunitiesMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. The core message of the Budget is to get our finances stable and on track, which will allow us to invest in the public services that everyone…04 Nov 2024