Extract from Agriculture Bill committee stage - Nov 13
Wednesday, 14 November 2018 09:50
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The Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (George
Eustice):...The second approach that we can take is to introduce
financial incentives to support farmers for adopting an approach to
livestock husbandry that is better for the welfare of the animal.
We make explicit provision for that in clause 1. It gives us the
power to give grants to farmers to invest in new livestock housing
that enables more enrichment of the sort the hon. Gentleman
describes. It gives us the power to award...Request free trial
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