(12 years, 10 months ago)
Commons ChamberDoes the hon. Gentleman agree with the NFU, which has stated:
“Claims that farm workers will suffer lower wages if the Board is abolished are simplistic and ill-founded”?
On this occasion, I do not agree with the National Farmers Union. As I have said, we consulted widely in preparing our position on this part of the Bill, and we have reached a very different conclusion on the basis of our conversations with farm workers, with small farmers and with other farm workers’ representative bodies, of which more later.