Connecting Europe Facility

Angus Brendan MacNeil Excerpts

Thursday 19th January 2012 Commons Chamber

[Chris Leslie]

I did not quite hear that from the Minister. If that is the Government’s position—perhaps the hon. Gentleman has a hotline to the Prime Minister on these matters—I would be very interested to hear it.

I agree that the proposed budgets for EU institutions are still too high. Export refund practices have to be cut back. We have to change agriculture policy so that it is fairer to smaller farmers and ends the ridiculous tobacco and wine subsidies that are lavishing payments on some of the very wealthiest players in the wealthiest EU countries.

[Mr Angus Brendan MacNeil (Na h-Eileanan an Iar) (SNP)]

I wonder what the hon. Gentleman’s proposals might mean for crofters in the highlands and islands of Scotland.