Speeches by Dewhirst.

“Let the voters decide.”

“If we are in a situation where you have Treasury imposing devastating tax changes, and you are not in discussions with other parts of Government about a potential US trade deal, do you think that DEFRA and the Secretary of State are doing a good job of representing the countryside at the top table of Government?”

“So in that sense you are not expecting agriculture to play any part in any trade deal with the US. Is that what you are saying?”

“Is agriculture potentially part of any trade deal? Have you had any discussions in relation to agriculture and food products?”

“Okay. To make just a slight change of tack, have you had any discussions with other arms of Government in relation to any US trade deal?”

“Is it right that a foreign-owned business that owns farmland does not have to pay this bill, but a family farm does?”

“That is completely at odds with the immediate change. You talk about the complexity. Surely, complexity means we should take a more measured approach to introducing this.”

“I will let Jayne get back to the specifics, but can I just ask a more general question about the spatial squeeze in our waters? The feedback I get from fishing organisations is that there is not joined up thinking across various Departments. We have pressures with renewables and the impact of those wind farms, we have …”

“To take one particular example that Jayne wanted to raise, and I have heard this from others, pollack is a species that is on the rise, yet our fishermen are unable to land it and a lot of it is thrown back. Is that something you are looking at to try to address that problem specifically?”

“Yes, perhaps we could start off with the quotas and how that is decided. Only 46% of quotas were set in line with scientific advice last year. I hear concerns from the fishing community that we are not being responsive to either increasing or declining fishing stocks of various species. So how can we move to a more env…”

“Anyway, we will move on.”

“Many hours of my life have been spent on the pig sector.”

“Is it possible just to outline to the Committee the progress each sector is making towards that at the moment? Just so we are clear on the timelines.”

“Yes. I will keep this very brief so we have plenty of time on fisheries. The failure of the GCA was, in a sense, that it did not really take into account the complexity of the supply chains; it almost assumed that there are farmers and supermarkets, which of course we know is not the case. But we cannot undo what is do…”

“On the lack of engagement front that you have already mentioned, when the Windsor framework was put into place and there was the EU exit initially, there was, I think, a reasonable process. I was involved before I was elected, certainly on the Windsor framework. I had regular calls every week, with Cabinet Office-facil…”

“I have twice invited Ministers to visit Bridlington district hospital with me to see its much-underutilised potential. In the light of the ongoing challenges faced by coastal and rural health services and the newly announced changes to integrated care boards, may I hope that it will be third time lucky, and extend that…”

“There is a challenge on BCPs specifically. They are commercial operations. Well, they should be commercial operations taken out of Government control. Is the regional model that you have suggested actually viable to operate a number of BCPs on a commercial footing?”

“I do not want to speak on behalf of the hon. Member for Blyth and Ashington (Ian Lavery), but he made his views very clear. I am sure that we will hear more in that tone as we go through the afternoon. It is really important that the Bill does not take us back to a place where growth is stifled. The Government talk abo…”

“8. What estimate she has made with Cabinet colleagues of the number of farms affected by changes to agricultural property relief and business property relief in Wales.”

“Farmers across the UK have already been rocked by the changes to APR and BPR, and yesterday we had shock news that the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs will take no new sustainable farming incentive applications in England. What reassurances can the Minister give farmers in Wales that the sustainable …”