'No clear plans, objectives or communications': MPs slam Defra's post-Brexit farming subsidy plans

Cecilia Keating
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'No clear plans, objectives or communications': MPs slam Defra's post-Brexit farming subsidy plans

MPs on Public Accounts Committee warn farmers are being 'left in the dark’ about reforms to post-Brexit agricultural subsidies

MPs on the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) have delivered a blistering assessment of the government's plans to reform post-Brexit land and farming subsidies, warning the proposed new schemes are beset...

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