Declaration relating to exceptional market conditions

Part of Agriculture Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 11:00 am on 13 November 2018.

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Photo of Martin Whitfield Martin Whitfield Labour, East Lothian 11:00, 13 November 2018

Is it not the case that, because of the circumstances surrounding the Bill on the question of no deal or deal, and because the Bill represents scaffolding, a lot of people are seeing what they want to see in it, when there is actually very little to see? The sort of certainty that is proposed in these amendments would go a long way towards giving our farmers and rural communities confidence about what is expected and intended.