Food Security and Farming Debate
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Jim Shannon
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(1 year, 8 months ago)
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Jim Shannon (Strangford) (DUP)
I thank the right hon. Lady for securing this debate. On food security and farming, Strangford is an important constituency for beef and dairy farming. They are prominent exports and a major part of our economy. We all want to go forward together, as the Minister understands and knows very well. But one of the changes that we are experiencing in Northern Ireland—I say this respectfully to the right hon. Lady and the Minister—is that, as DUP colleagues have stated before, exports face a delicate issue when it comes to the small print of the Windsor framework, which disadvantages my beef and dairy farmers. Does the right hon. Lady agree that we must move forward together?
Sir Edward Leigh (in the Chair)
Order. Can we have a short intervention? It is only a half-hour debate, Jim.