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HANSARDDraft Agriculture (Delinked Payments) (Reductions) (England) Regulations 2025The overall amount of money is, as we said, £5 billion over the two years. I had a decision to make back in October whether I could maintain the delinked payments at a higher…26 Mar 2025HANSARDDraft Agriculture (Delinked Payments) (Reductions) (England) Regulations 2025I said in the Chamber the other day that it was perfectly obvious that this would happen from the moment we introduced these new schemes. I knew five years ago that this would…26 Mar 2025HANSARDDraft Agriculture (Delinked Payments) (Reductions) (England) Regulations 2025No—I am going to conclude now. Delinked payments are not the answer to the long-term challenges farmers face, despite the Opposition’s hankering after them. This Government will…26 Mar 2025HANSARDDraft Agriculture (Delinked Payments) (Reductions) (England) Regulations 2025Of course, the hon. Gentleman will know that there was never clarity on the pace of that transition. I can also tell him that, despite his assertions earlier, the announcement on…26 Mar 2025HANSARDFishing Quota Negotiations: Impact on UK FleetIt is a pleasure to speak with you in the Chair, Mr Vickers. I thank the hon. Member for St Ives (Andrew George) for securing this debate. I welcome the opportunity to talk about…26 Mar 2025HANSARDDraft Agriculture (Delinked Payments) (Reductions) (England) Regulations 2025I praise you for your forbearance, Mr Twigg; at one point, I thought you might move a closure motion yourself, because we have strayed a long way from delinked payments. In fact,…26 Mar 2025HANSARDDraft Agriculture (Delinked Payments) (Reductions) (England) Regulations 2025We will find ourselves arguing over definitions. Many farmers will now be environmental land managers and will be able to get money for schemes that protect nature. We have…26 Mar 2025HANSARDPrioritising British Produce: Public BodiesThe new national procurement policy statement sets out requirements for Government contracts, and favours high-quality products that we believe British producers are very well…20 Mar 2025HANSARDPrioritising British Produce: Public BodiesI am grateful for the question from my hon. Friend. We are absolutely determined to make the best of this opportunity, not least because the previous Government did not know how…20 Mar 2025HANSARDAgricultural and Business Property ReliefsAround 500 claims each year will be impacted. Our reforms will mean that farmers will pay a reduced inheritance tax rate of 20%, rather than the standard 40%, and payments can be…20 Mar 2025HANSARDAgricultural and Business Property ReliefsI hear the hon. Gentleman’s complaint, but I have been to Devon in my role before, and I will come to Devon again. I am always happy to meet farmers. I have spent quite a lot of…20 Mar 2025HANSARDPrioritising British Produce: Public BodiesAs I said in response to my hon. Friend the Member for St Austell and Newquay (Noah Law), the first thing we needed to do was establish how much we are actually buying, and that…20 Mar 2025HANSARDAgricultural and Business Property ReliefsI suggest that the shadow Minister goes out and speaks to a few more people, because I was stopped in a local village just this weekend and encouraged — [ Interruption. ] I am not…20 Mar 2025HANSARDAgricultural and Business Property ReliefsThe hon. Gentleman always speaks with passion about his constituents, and I absolutely understand those concerns. He is right to say that the schemes we inherited did not reward…20 Mar 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. Looking ahead, the future can be very exciting for farming, but as the Secretary of State said, we have to establish farming as a…20 Mar 2025HANSARDTopical Questionsrose—20 Mar 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsThis is why we will be introducing a land-use framework—to ensure that we can make rational decisions about how land is used to best effect.20 Mar 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI am sure that my hon. Friend’s cats, who I am told are called Clem Cattlee and Mo Meowlam, will be delighted to hear that the Government are looking very closely at the Animal…20 Mar 2025HANSARDFarmingI am the farmers’ friend.13 Mar 2025HANSARDFarmingI thank the right hon. Member for Orkney and Shetland (Mr Carmichael) and congratulate him on securing this very important debate on the future of farming. I will not say that I…13 Mar 2025