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HANSARDAgriculture Bill (Fourth sitting)Q I suppose the Bill is encouraging more humane production methods and so on, and the food strategy is making sure, at the consumer end of things and the marketing end of things,…13 Feb 2020HANSARDAgriculture Bill (Fourth sitting)Q I am trying to tease this out, because we have heard previous witnesses say that there is concern about the lack of baseline regulation in the Bill and the fact that we no…13 Feb 2020HANSARDAgriculture Bill (First sitting)Q Do you mean the baseline regulations? Martin Lines: Under the current system we have cross-compliance. With those who choose not to engage in the system, because they want to…11 Feb 2020HANSARDAgriculture Bill (Second sitting)Q Did you just say that game should be taken out of the Bill altogether because it is a leisure pastime, not an agricultural pastime? Jake Fiennes: Game is not agriculture. Game…11 Feb 2020HANSARDAgriculture Bill (Second sitting)Q This is probably a question specifically for David Goodwin. What role do you see county farms playing, given that the Government and the Minister have in the past expressed…11 Feb 2020HANSARDAgriculture Bill (Second sitting)Q You have farmed game birds that are released into the world to be shot. Jake Fiennes: But a game farmer is not a farmer. He is not a poultry producer either, strangely. Sorry,…11 Feb 2020HANSARDAgriculture Bill (Second sitting)Q Well, we probably do not have time to go into that. This is probably a question for Graeme, to start with, but others can chip in if they wish. I have two quick questions.…11 Feb 2020HANSARDAgriculture Bill (First sitting)Q May I return to the regulatory baseline issue I raised with the previous witnesses? The RSPB was involved in the Institute for European Environmental Policy report published…11 Feb 2020HANSARDAgriculture Bill (First sitting)Q May I just ask about the climate change angle? The NFU has said that it wants to reach net zero farming by 2040. There is no target in the Bill. My concern is that farmers do…11 Feb 2020HANSARDAgriculture Bill (Second sitting)Q And the climate change thing, possibly. Graeme Willis: Yes, climate change being one of the objectives. It is very important, given we know the level of emissions from upland…11 Feb 2020HANSARDAgriculture Bill (First sitting)Q Do you think the Bill does enough to encourage the whole-farm approach, or is there a danger that farmers might just pick and choose among the public goods and do some of the…11 Feb 2020HANSARDAgriculture Bill (First sitting)Q As I understand it, at the moment, farmers will get the basic payments for just having the land. If you check cross-compliance and they are not meeting the standards, they will…11 Feb 2020HANSARDAgriculture Bill (Second sitting)Q I thought that the whole justification for game shooting was that people eventually eat the birds, even though we know that they could not possibly consume as many as were shot.…11 Feb 2020HANSARDCounty Lines: Exploitation of Children21. What discussions is the Minister having with other Departments about what we do when young people have been identified as having been caught up in county lines? It is very…10 Feb 2020HANSARDCompostable Waste from Parliament9. To ask the hon. Member for Perth and North Perthshire, representing the House of Commons Commission, what steps the Commission is taking to ensure that compostable waste from…06 Feb 2020HANSARDCompostable Waste from ParliamentTo the establishment! A knighthood cannot be far behind. An investigation by Footprint, whose findings were published in July, found that all the compostable packaging collected…06 Feb 2020HANSARDTopical QuestionsDuring the debate before the election on restoring nature and climate change, the Minister, who is now in the Lords, told the House that a legislative response to the problem of…06 Feb 2020HANSARDCompostable Waste from ParliamentI welcome the hon. Member to—06 Feb 2020HANSARDEU Customs Declarations12. Whether EU customs declarations will be undertaken in Belfast on goods imported from mainland UK after the UK has left the EU.05 Feb 2020HANSARDEU Customs DeclarationsThe European Commission released documents showing that EU import formalities on goods imported from the EU, such as customs declarations, would end up taking place in Belfast. […05 Feb 2020