Common Agricultural Policy and Market Measures (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 Debate
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Baroness Parminter
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Common Agricultural Policy and Market Measures (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019
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Baroness Parminter (LD)
My Lords, we on these Benches support the comments of the noble Baroness, Lady McIntosh of Pickering, who has reflected on the errors to the three statutory instruments on CAP which have already come. It would be churlish to make more political capital out of that, given the huge number of statutory instruments that the department has had to deal with. As she rightly says, there has been a huge human cost, so we do not wish to make any political capital out of those drafting errors.
Equally, the Minister in his opening remarks reflected on the need for this statutory instrument to ensure that the discretion remains to enable flexibility between Pillar 1 and Pillar 2. Again, we support the discretion to move money from Pillar 1 to Pillar 2 to encourage further expansion of rural development schemes.