§ Mr. CoxTo ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food how many responses he has received to the consultation document, Agenda 2000: A New Direction for Agriculture; and if he will make a statement. [108015]
§ Ms QuinWe received 169 written responses. We also held 14 well-attended regional consultation meetings when attendees were able to make their points in person. Copies of the consultation responses have been placed in the main Ministry of Agriculture Library.
These responses were taken into consideration in the final choices we made for the implementation of the discretionary areas of Agenda 2000.