The hon. Lady is making an interesting speech, and I am grateful for it. She is right that we should import less food and use Government procurement to help with that, and she is right about the inter-generational quality of family farms. Will she acknowledge that, in delivering the kind of food security that her speech implies, we cannot have the most productive farmland eaten up by large-scale solar developments and housing? We need to protect our grade 1, 2 and 3 land for the very reason she gave, because that allows us to deliver the food security that she and I both want.
Farming and Inheritance Tax
Proceeding contribution from
John Hayes
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 4 December 2024.
It occurred during Opposition day on Farming and Inheritance Tax.
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