Common Agricultural Policy and Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019

My Lords, far from going round the houses, the noble Baroness, Lady Byford, has done us a service...

My Lords, I want to say just a couple of things. I am married to a farmer and in the evenings I h...

I do not believe that the noble Earl was here at the start of the debate and therefore it is not ...

I am sorry. I was only going to make a point about the RPA workload.

Perhaps the noble Earl might speak to the Minister afterwards.

I am grateful to the Minister for his introduction to the bundle of regulations before the Commit...

I am sorry to intervene, but the noble Earl was sitting over there at the beginning of the debate...

Not quite; I missed the first couple of minutes.

I may well bring up the points that the noble Earl intended to make, so I will hope to cover some...

My Lords, I should have at the very outset declared my farming interests as well, as set out in t...

I think I am allowed to intervene quickly. Maybe interest payments could be looked at, because re...

I have heard the noble Earl and respect his tenacity in putting that point. I had better not say ...

Reading through the instrument, I found that odd. I could not think of the context that it was re...

I can understand that. In signing the EM, Ministers have to declare that we have had due regard t...

It is indeed—that had not occurred to me. Do we conclude from this that the Government have no in...

Yes; I always have a safety valve. Picking up my noble friend’s point, it is why we thought that ...

This is not a theoretical situation. I do not wish to turn doom-laden, but if the events we are d...

Yes, and I think it has been clear from the department that, like any responsible Government or d...

I intervene because I have been dealing with state aid provisions more generally. The European sy...

My Lords, I am afraid the noble Lord was not in the Committee at the start of debate.

I was.

I have written here: “Whitty (late)”.

Would it help if the noble Lord and I had a conversation after this debate on the statutory instr...

My Lords, I know I got a bit confused when we went over the various instruments. My question was ...

I think that may be a matter of detail. I will write with a résumé of points I may not have cover...