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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

The Minister is aware that his Department is planning for level cash as its income in the next comprehensive spending review round. He is also aware that a further £55 million will have to be found over the next three financial years to carry out some of the improvements to which he has adverted. Could he therefore explain to the House where that money will come from within the DEFRA budget and what the policy and reality implications are of spending more on the RPA and, by definition, less elsewhere?