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Business of the House

Will the Leader of the House make time for a debate on the plight of sugar beet farmers in constituencies such as mine? Those farmers have two significant concerns about the reform of the EU sugar regime. The first involves the method of allocating compensation payments; the second relates to how the reforms are to be implemented and who will be consulted. The growers are worried that decisions are being made without consulting the people who will be directly affected—the farmers themselves.