Farming and Food Production: Land Use Framework

Lord Barber of Chittlehampton Excerpts

Tuesday 21st July 2026 Lords Chamber

[Lord Barber of Chittlehampton (Lab)]

My Lords, I declare an interest as the chair of the former Devon land use framework under the previous Government. Does the Minister agree that, in the past, decisions about land use were too often made in silos; that the land use framework will encourage thinking about combinations and multifunctionality; and that it has made a very good start?

[Baroness Hayman of Ullock (Lab)]

My noble friend makes a very good point. The whole point of the land use framework was to bring things together so that decisions were not being made without taking into account other pressures on that land. I think it is a very important piece of work. It is just a framework; what is important now is that we take it forward in a way so that it will do what it is designed to do.