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Petition Put a minimum cap of £1.20 on 4 pints of milk to help farmers

Shops use milk as low as 89p for 4 pints as selling points to drive customers to their shops, forcing farmers to supply at such a low price. We dont mind paying more for milk!!

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House of Commons Committee looks at dairy prices

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Put a minimum cap of £1.20 on 4 pints of milk to help farmers: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/106180

At 2.30pm today the EFRA Committee will be holding a one-off evidence session on dairy prices where they will question witnesses from the National Farmers’ Union and Dairy UK. They will then question the Government Minister responsible for food and farming George Eustice MP.

You can find out more about the evidence session and watch it live on the Committee’s website: http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/environment-food-and-rural-affairs-committee/news-parliament-2015/dairy-prices/

After the meeting, the video and transcript will be made available on the same page (the transcript will take a couple of days to appear).

You can follow the EFRA Committee on Twitter: @CommonsEFRA