On the specific point about agriculture, I do not know whether the letter addressing those points has been issued yet. I can say that 99.5% of subsidies given to the agriculture industry in the UK would not fall within the remit of the subsidy; they are lower. We do not have the data for Scotland or Wales, but it captures only the very largest subsidy given to the very largest farms. That may include some in Scotland with that sort of acreage—
Subsidy Control Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist
(Conservative)
in the House of Lords on Wednesday, 9 February 2022.
It occurred during Debate on bills
and
Committee proceeding on Subsidy Control Bill.
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