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Rebecca Pow

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Supporting Disabled People to Work
Thursday 28th March 2019

(5 years, 8 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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One sentence of fewer than 20 words—Rebecca Pow.

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I was going to ask, Mr Speaker—I am going to extend it—whether you are a gardener. If you are, you will understand the value of healthy soil. Does the Secretary of State agree that soil is so important for delivering flooding control and healthy food, and for holding carbon, that we should give it top priority in the Agriculture Bill, call it a public good and pay farmers to deliver it?

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The crops have had plenty of time to grow.

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