We welcome the announcement in November of additional Government funding for new technology, and call upon Defra to publish a strategy within 6 months setting out how it will work with technology providers and the food supply chain to ensure our farming and food production sectors can help develop and take advantage of the latest technological advancements. The Government should monitor the speed at which the mechanisation of roles currently done by seasonal labour becomes economic for all farmers, including small farmers, and this should be reflected in the setting of the cap on the Seasonal Workers Pilot. (Paragraph 68) The UK’s new immigration policy and the food supply chain 35