North Bedfordshire

The family have been farming Scald End Farm, a mixed beef and sheep farm in north Bedfordshire, since the 1940s but they all now also have to work off farm to supplement their income.

Richard Fuller, Conservative MP for North Bedfordshire, said the government should have considered capping compensation payments to avoid an "open-ended cost to the taxpayer".

He gave me a place in his Government; and for the next three years my activities were limited to North Bedfordshire, which I then represented, the House of Commons, and Whitehall.