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AGRICULTURAL TENANCIES

EDM (Early Day Motion) 760: tabled on 25 November 2015

Tabled in the 2015-16 session.

This motion has been signed by 11 Members. It has not yet had any amendments submitted.

As this motion is using historical data, we may not have the record of the original ordering, in which case signatories are listed alphabetically.

Motion text

That this House commends the Tenant Farmers Association (TFA) for its FBT10+ campaign, aimed at encouraging average lengths of term on farm business tenancies to be raised from current levels of less than four years to over 10 years; urges landlords to consider letting longer agricultural tenancies; and calls on the Government to consider the fiscal and legislative proposals of the (TFA) to encourage landlords towards good practice in letting longer term agricultural tenancies.