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HANSARD Budget: Implications for Farming CommunitiesI see the hon. Gentleman nodding. He is well versed in that; he knows.04 Nov 2024HANSARD Budget: Implications for Farming CommunitiesThe hon. Gentleman is a well-informed, thoughtful person, and I listen closely to what he has to say on these issues, but I do wonder sometimes about the Liberal Democrats’…04 Nov 2024HANSARD Budget: Implications for Farming CommunitiesI am very grateful to the hon. Gentleman for promoting me to Secretary of State—I hope he has similar success in the coming hours. The hon. Gentleman raises a whole series of…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 CommunitiesWhen we came to power a few months ago, the thing I was asked most strongly to do was to provide stability for the future. Through a series of interventions over the past few…04 Nov 2024HANSARD Budget: Implications for Farming CommunitiesWe will back British farmers, by making sure that they have a stable system in which they can flourish.04 Nov 2024HANSARD Budget: Implications for Farming CommunitiesI thank my hon. Friend for her contribution. Can I say how much I enjoyed visiting Wales, with the Welsh Minister, very early in my tenure? It was an important sign from this…04 Nov 2024HANSARD Budget: Implications for Farming CommunitiesMy hon. Friend and near neighbour is right to pay tribute to our food producers. One thing we know for sure is that we are going to need food into the future, and farmers are…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 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 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 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 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 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. I will always look with keen interest at anything that can help us to make progress. In terms of how we provide support and reassurance to those…04 Nov 2024HANSARD Budget: Implications for Farming CommunitiesOnce again, I would say that it is by having a stable, sensible approach to farming support in the coming years. Clearly in Scotland this area is devolved, and it is for the…04 Nov 2024HANSARD Budget: Implications for Farming CommunitiesI agree with the hon. Gentleman that the rural economy is closely integrated and that one thing has an effect on another, but the thing that will be most beneficial for the rural…04 Nov 2024HANSARD Budget: Implications for Farming CommunitiesI thank my fellow East Anglian MP for his contribution. Am I surprised? No, I am not entirely surprised, because people are very fed up and depressed, and they have been depressed…04 Nov 2024HANSARD Budget: Implications for Farming CommunitiesI would reassure that farmer. I am afraid that I do not think he is correct on that, and we are absolutely determined to ensure that he can hand on his farm, as others have done…04 Nov 2024