Milk Production Debate

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Department: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Baroness Stowell of Beeston

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Milk Production

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Business of the House
Thursday 15th January 2015

(9 years, 9 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Order. We need less of the shouting of “This side, this side” during Question Time. If we are going to follow the convention of sides, which is not the only convention we follow at Question Time, it is the turn of the Labour Benches, so we should hear from the noble Lord, Lord Berkeley.

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I am grateful to the noble Baroness. Does the Minister agree that one way of reducing the cost of production would be to introduce mega-dairies and very big units in the way that has been done for poultry and pigs? Does he have a view on that and what sort of size would the Government welcome?

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