Speeches by Eagle.

“We have had it since 31 October.”

“No. It is important that we get the SPS stuff under way and see what the requirements are and whether we can get an exception.”

“My understanding is that it is considering how it may move its structures forwards to allow for precision breeding. It has not got anywhere near a regulation on this yet, but the indications are that it is moving in a similar direction to the one that we have already moved in.”

“We are not there yet. We commenced the plant precision breeding regulations in early November, but we are not near to doing the animal ones yet. I do not have anything against it in principle, but we are still not in a situation where we know whether we have an exemption. The EU is moving in a similar position, by the …”

“Fair enough.”

“DEFRA is extremely good at that, I might add. I have discovered that since I got here.”

“It is quite difficult to undo what has come before. Well, it is impossible to undo what has come before, and we have three to five-year schemes that do not run out, so by definition you have to run these things in parallel. If we can get the approach right, and with the fact that the Batters review ought to be looked a…”

“I was up at Harper Adams the other day looking at what it is doing in terms of education and skills training. There is some very impressive work going on in our agricultural colleges. There are some gaps with onward skills training for people who are out there farming. With the march of agritech and some of the new tec…”

“We are in the middle of developing a whole string of fair supply chain regulations to try to ensure, without controlling prices, which we have not done in this country for a very long time, that there is supply chain fairness. We have that for dairy. We have it coming in for pigs. We are looking at eggs. I have just an…”

“As a matter of course, these issues are devolved. We have to respect devolved issues and that the devolved Administrations may take a different approach and attitude to this. It can sometimes create complications, but the advantage is in devolution itself. Emily, I do not know whether you want to come in.”

“Yes.”

“We are considering all that at the moment. It is a very complex sort of landscape, given the way that food distribution now works. It has rather moved away from local distributions, so it is a question of how we can see what can be done much more locally. It is more difficult than I had hoped, simply because of the way…”

“Not only no‑alcohol beers, Chair.”

“It was my pleasure.”

“It is a very wide-ranging review. You only have to wait a small number of hours now to see it. I certainly hope that, taken together, it will be able to deal with quite a bit of this.”

“Certainly on the last part of your question, yes, it is really important. There are some examples of that being done in Scotland as well. A quota has been kept aside for young fishers who are maybe just starting out in the smaller boats before they become captains of very much larger boats in their careers, if they enj…”

“We will try to keep them in touch going forwards, but it was for zero catches and we have exempted the people who would have been particularly hit. We are likely to see recovery in some of the species that will get through the bigger nets.”

“I know they did, but it was on zero-catch species, to try to preserve them, and on net sizes. We managed to exclude under-12-foot boats from those. It will affect EU fishers far more than ours and it will preserve some of the zero-catch species that will be able to get through the nets, which would not have got through…”

“This is the EU-UK negotiations, not some of the rest of it. They were done under the terms of the trade and co-operation agreement, where there is a technical aspect to that.”

“I do not have anything personal against land agents, but I want to have a system where, after you have been in the fields all day, you can come back and make your application without having to go through hell or employing somebody to do it. I have had the Rural Payments Agency in my office to show me how the system wor…”