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David T C Davies Excerpts
Thursday 28th March 2019

(5 years, 1 month ago)

Commons Chamber
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Robert Goodwill Portrait Mr Goodwill
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The first workers under the scheme will be arriving in April. Indeed, I met one of my officials who had just come back from Ukraine to ensure that the scheme works well. There will be 2,500 workers coming in each year, and I will also meet with the president of the NFU this afternoon to discuss what views she may have on that.

David T C Davies Portrait David T. C. Davies (Monmouth) (Con)
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5. Does my right hon. Friend agree that the pilot underlines the Government’s commitment to ensuring that farmers have certainty post Brexit, and that the one way to ensure that that certainty continues is to vote for the deal when it comes back before the House?