Food Supply: Sustainability

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Monday 14th September 2015

(9 years, 3 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Baroness Stowell of Beeston Portrait The Lord Privy Seal (Baroness Stowell of Beeston) (Con)
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My Lords, it is the turn of the Conservative Benches.

Lord Elton Portrait Lord Elton
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My Lords, will my noble friend tell us what has actually gone wrong with the Rural Payments Agency system and what is being done to put it right?

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Baroness Stowell of Beeston Portrait Baroness Stowell of Beeston
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My Lords, I am so sorry to interrupt but if we are doing it in turns, it is the turn of the Cross Benches.

Lord Hannay of Chiswick Portrait Lord Hannay of Chiswick
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My Lords, I wonder whether the Minister has done any studies of the effect on the strategies he describes of withdrawal from the European Union. If his department has done any, could he share them with the House? It is surely necessary that we should be in full possession of these facts.