Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations

Part of Private Members’ Bills – in the House of Commons at 11:11 pm on 12 November 2018.

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Photo of Kerry McCarthy Kerry McCarthy Labour, Bristol East 11:11, 12 November 2018

I appreciate that the Minister is not the farming Minister, but when we tried to introduce a non-regression clause in the Trade Bill, we were told that it was not the place for it. We are now trying to introduce it in the Agriculture Bill, and we are being told that the place for it is the Trade Bill. We need something enshrined in legislation, rather than just the warm words of Ministers, to say that we will not accept imports with lower standards than those required from our farmers in the UK. Does the Minister agree?