Part of 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Energy, Planning and Rural Affairs – in the Senedd at 1:40 pm on 3 October 2018.
Well, you've made some very generalised statements there. First of all, yes, I am going to pursue it. That's the first thing. The second thing is that this is Welsh Labour policy. In relation to what you're saying about Sue Hayman, I know of the comments that she made at the NFU fringe meeting in the party conference. I've seen her speech. I've spoken to her on several occasions. She believes her comments have been misinterpreted by—. It was an NFU Cymru fringe event. I understand that she will be writing to the president of NFU Cymru to make sure that her comments are understood.
I think that most people I speak to would agree that BPS payments have not done enough to improve farm productivity. You say that people are disturbed. This paper, 'Brexit and our land', came out of the Brexit round-table. You will have heard me refer to the stakeholder group many times in this Chamber and in committees. The farming unions both said to me that there were no surprises in that document because they had been part of those discussions for over two years since we had the vote. You say that it's a lonely place. Believe me, I have worked very hard for the stakeholders to bring that document forward, and it is a consultation. I want to make that vey clear, and it's still open to 30 October, and I look forward to receiving people's views.