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Regulatory Reform (Agricultural Tenancies) (England and Wales) Order 2006

My Lords, I am happy to go back and take advice on that and I will write to the noble Lord. Although I am speaking from memory, I understand that when this matter was looked at, it was not seen as—I shall not say ““value for money””—fit for purpose and another route was taken under Fresh Start. However, I would be happy to confirm that and provide the noble Lord and noble Baroness with a note. Farm blocking is an issue here. We want young people on the land and they are queuing up to get on the land, as I discovered on a recent visit to Harper Adams. I spent several hours there, including a couple of hours in a lecture theatre full of 150 or so young people who were itching to become farmers—not all of them from a farming background. I always ask when I go to colleges, or to shows where I see a college stand, whether there are people wanting to come in who have no background in farming. There is not a massive number, but they are there and that is fantastic, and we should do what we can to facilitate them. Farm blocking by farmers who do not understand the word ““retirement”” is a difficulty, but I shall provide a separate note on that. On Question, Motion agreed to.