Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 30 April 2001.
The Church Commissioners are to be congratulated on being fair and generous to their tenants who are in farming. It seems likely that many tenants will leave farming at the end of the foot and mouth outbreak. Do the commissioners have a policy to encourage the use of their land for non-farming or non-traditional farming purposes such as growing products for fuel, coppicing and so on, which would be better for the environment and, as such usage would be more profitable, better for the Church Commissioners?