Dairy Industry

My hon. Friend makes an extremely important point. Does he agree that one potential solution to the problem in the dairy industry is to have large farmer-owned co-operatives that are vertically integrated, similar to Fonterra from New Zealand and Arla in Denmark, emerge in this country? That will restore some of the balance in the supply relationship between farmers and the larger retailers. Does my hon. Friend also agree that there are significant concerns in the farming community about the attitude of the Office of Fair Trading to such a development? We need some of those co-operatives to become much bigger and stronger.