Pippa Hackett (Green Party)
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I am actively encouraging farmers to apply for the current ash dieback scheme, as doing so will not prejudice them from any future scheme. They will have to get a licence anyway and clear what is there. We are supporting that. For example, we have doubled the payments for clearance and so forth. Farmers should be clearing automatically.

Regarding announcements about a new scheme, we will have to see how we get on with the state aid rules, but I want to address this issue. As soon as humanly possible, we will-----