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Delinked payments, even as they are being reduced, remain a crucial income stream for farmers in an industry with notoriously low returns, especially for tenant farmers, for whom this money may well have been paying the rent this year. Both this Government and the last one accepted the recommendations of the review by the noble Baroness, Lady Rock, which were intended to protect tenants, yet neither have implemented them. To impose such severe cuts right now, before new protections are in place, is surely doing things the wrong way round.