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Member

Speaking in the House of Lords on 20 October 2025

Debate

Planning and Infrastructure Bill

Contribution

But this has seen landowners of really quite small holdings, which have been aggregated together as part of an NSIP, giving their tenants notice to quit so that they can enjoy the inflation-linked payments themselves. Our tenant farmers are the most entrepreneurial growers, not having had the benefit of inheriting land, and we cannot afford to lose their dynamism. That is at stake here.

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