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Agricultural Policy

The issue affects agricultural workers in my area, as well as owners of land and property. I remind the Secretary of State that the Under-Secretary told the Committee that the Department made a bid to the Treasury for rural areas of Wales to be included in the first phase, which was ignored. Surely the Government should not be treating Wales as second class. We have included islands in England and Scotland, but not in Wales; I represent an island in Wales, and have a vested interest. We are not taking part in this pilot, but prices are as high in the peripheral areas of Wales as they are in areas of England and Scotland.