Oral Question·Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
“If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.”
Tabled: 16 January 2024Answered: 22 January 2024
Asked by
Cat Smith
Labour — Lancaster and Wyre
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Answer from Hansard
The Prime Minister
We are listening to farmers, and the Environment Secretary and Treasury Ministers met with the NFU on Monday. We have taken a fair and balanced approach: the vast, vast majority of farms will not be affected. What I will also say is that having grown up in a rural community, I know that rural communities also need an NHS that is back on its feet, schools that their children can go to and homes that their families can afford to live in, but we will continue to talk to the NFU and others.