Amendment summary
Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville moved, as an amendment to the motion in the name of Lord Benyon, to leave out all the words after “that” and insert “this House declines to approve the Direct Payments to Farmers (Reductions) (England) Regulations 2023 as they would reduce the direct payments made to farmers for the 2023 year of the Basic Payments Scheme; considers that the implementation of this reduction in payments, combined with rising input?and energy?costs to produce food, risks the livelihoods of British farmers as they transition their businesses to producing food and public goods like environmental protection; and calls on His Majesty’s Government to?accelerate urgently the roll-out of the Environmental Land Management scheme”.