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Part of European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill – in the House of Commons at 1:30 pm on 8 February 2017.

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Photo of John Redwood John Redwood Conservative, Wokingham 1:30, 8 February 2017

I just explained that it should boost it. I am sure that more market opportunities will open up for Welsh farmers, but we will also debate in this House how to have a proper support regime. I hope that it will be a support regime that not only rewards environmental objectives but is friendly to promoting the greater efficiencies that can come from more farm mechanisation and enlargement, which will be an important part of our journey to try to eliminate some of the massive deficit we run in food with the rest of the EU while being more decent to the emerging world—the poor countries of the world to which we deliberately deny access to our markets.