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Work Programme (Wales)

Is the hon. Gentleman aware that the Farmers Union of Wales is most perturbed that the Agricultural Wages Board for England and Wales is being threatened with abolition under the Public Bodies Bill in the coming week? So many farm businesses and farm workers alike depend on that board to answer inquiries that can be very difficult when only one or two people are employed on an isolated farm. Does he realise that, far from cutting red tape, all such action will do is land confusion on our farmers and drive down wages in rural areas?