Animal Welfare Strategy: Rural Communities Debate

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Animal Welfare Strategy: Rural Communities

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Thursday 12th February 2026

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Does the Minister accept that although we respect her position, the present Government are extremely unpopular in the countryside and that she is going to have to work extremely hard to make sure that rural people believe that this consultation is serious? So far, they do not, and she will have to work very hard indeed.

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