Sustainable Farming Scheme's Ministerial Roundtable 'not hiding away', says Minister

Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and Climate Change Huw Irranca-Davies said: "What we are doing is bringing forward a scheme that is right and accessible to all farmers, in order to do that we need lock the doors, bury ourselves away, and crunch through some serious matters"

Rachael Brown
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Sustainable Farming Scheme's Ministerial Roundtable 'not hiding away', says Minister

Wales' Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and Climate Change, Huw Irranca-Davies insists they are ‘not hiding away' when it comes to giving farmers updates on discussions made in the ministerial roundtable...

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