Farming Road Map and Profitability Review Debate
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Lord Bellingham
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Farming Road Map and Profitability Review
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Baroness Hayman of Ullock (Lab)
There have not been any live exports since Covid. It stopped then, as I am sure the noble Lord is very aware. I am sure everybody knows that I simply cannot talk about what we are discussing in the reset, but I can give my absolute assurance to the noble Lord that that is one of the exceptions carve-outs we have asked for.
Lord Bellingham (Con)
My Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Rock, mentioned tenant farmers being forced out of farms to make way for solar arrays. There is evidence of this happening today in Norfolk and Suffolk. The road map mentions “sustainability” and “food security” on a number of occasions—food security is mentioned many times. What is the Minister’s view of the location of large-scale solar arrays on prime agricultural land?