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HANSARDAgriculture Bill (Third sitting)Q I guess many of us would say that there is a need for urgency, but farmers find themselves caught in the middle, don’t they? There is pressure to change—the Bill is part of that…13 Feb 2020HANSARDAgriculture Bill (Third sitting)Q What would you like to see put into the Bill, in terms of the imported food standards issue? Gareth Morgan: I do not think anyone has found a simple solution to this, other than…13 Feb 2020HANSARDAgriculture Bill (Third sitting)You do not have to answer if you do not want to, but the fact that you are treading warily tells us what we need to know. Thank you.13 Feb 2020HANSARDAgriculture Bill (Third sitting)Q You said a little about the environmental land management schemes, but who is best placed to administer and deliver those? Gareth Morgan: I would tread very warily in that…13 Feb 2020HANSARDAgriculture Bill (Third sitting)Q Two questions: first, in some of your evidence you have suggested that there should be a public health aim within the Bill, and I wondered whether you could tell us a little…13 Feb 2020HANSARDAgriculture Bill (Fourth sitting)Q Good afternoon. I think Mr Clarke alluded to this point briefly earlier, but I will ask all of you, as I have asked most of the witnesses: what effect do you think allowing…13 Feb 2020HANSARDAgriculture Bill (Fourth sitting)Q Paragraph 21 of the written evidence from NFU Scotland touches on the complicated question of the governance of common frameworks. We had the same discussion with…13 Feb 2020HANSARDAgriculture Bill (Fourth sitting)There is a danger that, if we do not address those labour supply issues, the industry will struggle, and we will then inevitably be back to importing food from outside again.…13 Feb 2020HANSARDAgriculture Bill (Fourth sitting)Q Good afternoon. May I add my congratulations to the new Secretary of State? We obviously do not want to be too nice about him and set him off to a bad start, but he is clearly a…13 Feb 2020HANSARDAgriculture Bill (Fourth sitting)Q Good afternoon. I have different questions for Vicki and for Compassion. Vicki, in your written evidence, you make a very strong case for a public health function. Can you…13 Feb 2020HANSARDAgriculture Bill (Fourth sitting)Q Good afternoon. Since the Bill was introduced a couple of years ago, the world has moved on in some ways. There is greater awareness of the challenge that we face, and the…13 Feb 2020HANSARDAgriculture Bill (Fourth sitting)Q I have one additional question that has not come up very much. We talk about public goods and public money, but should there be some public voice in all this, for any decisions…13 Feb 2020HANSARDEngagementsThe Oxford-Cambridge so-called expressway is a 20th-century roadbuilding solution to a 21st-century challenge, and at the election Labour rightly pledged to scrap it. I wonder…12 Feb 2020HANSARDAgriculture Bill (Second sitting)Q Returning to the volatility/stability question, the CAP was much derided in many quarters, but I would say it has delivered some of the goals that it originally set out to…11 Feb 2020HANSARDAgriculture Bill (Second sitting)Q Earlier, you touched on some of the opportunities around data. Will you amplify on that? What support might be needed to make the most of those opportunities? Richard Self:…11 Feb 2020HANSARDAgriculture Bill (Second sitting)Q Is that an issue of scale, or an issue of co-operation? Richard Self: Obviously, the more data you have across an area—information on yields, or even perhaps on the supply side,…11 Feb 2020HANSARDAgriculture Bill (Second sitting)Q I very much agree with you about the complex interaction between the pieces of legislation, but we know that the sector produces a certain amount. Could there not be a target…11 Feb 2020HANSARDAgriculture Bill (Second sitting)Q I want to put to you a question I asked earlier witnesses. I think that the CPRE was one of the signatories to the letter to the Prime Minister expressing concern about the…11 Feb 2020HANSARDAgriculture Bill (Second sitting)Q Thank you; that is helpful. Jim and Jake, you are very enthusiastic and positive about the change on uptake in stewardship. That has been a long time coming, has it not? What…11 Feb 2020HANSARDAgriculture Bill (Second sitting)Q May I press you on that point? This is a big transition that is envisaged, possibly over a compressed timeframe. Is there the capacity to provide the advice and to do the…11 Feb 2020