Business: Greenwashing

Lord Wigley Excerpts
Tuesday 10th January 2023

(1 year, 9 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Wigley Portrait Lord Wigley (PC)
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My Lords, I draw attention to my registered interest. Does the Minister accept that there is real pressure on productive agricultural land, particularly in Wales and Scotland, from the big businesses buying up such land and taking it out of production, so adding to food cost inflation? Does he accept that perpetual increased afforestation encroaching on productive land is not an acceptable answer, and that it needs land use that sustains food production in an environmentally acceptable manner?

Lord Callanan Portrait Lord Callanan (Con)
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That is a fascinating question, although I am not sure that what it has to do with the subject under discussion. However, it is a very real issue and certainly something that we need to keep under close examination, because we do not want productive land taken out of use.