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Direct Payments to Farmers (Legislative Continuity) Bill

My hon. Friend is being characteristically generous in giving way. I hope he will agree with me, and probably most people in this House, that as important

as this Bill is—so, too, is the Agriculture Bill, to which he referred—it will be for nothing if we do not have some form of equivalence clause on food imports to ensure standards of animal welfare and public health. All of the Minister’s good intentions, both for this Bill and the Agriculture Bill, will come to nothing if we suddenly find ourselves swamped by cheaper imports that make all the countryside issues to which my hon. Friend the Member for Milton Keynes North (Ben Everitt) referred absolutely irrelevant.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
670 c673 
Session
2019-21
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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