HC Deb 17 July 1934 vol 292 cc1077-9

Resolution reported, That it is expedient—

  1. (1) to provide for the establishment of a fund (hereinafter referred to as the cattle fund ') under the administration and control of the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries and the Secretaries of State concerned with agriculture in Scotland and Northern Ireland, respectively (hereinafter referred to as 'the appropriate Ministers ');
  2. (2) to provide for authorising the Treasury to make, during the financial year ending the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and thirty-five, advances to the cattle fund, not exceeding in the aggregate three million pounds, out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom, and for requiring that any advances made to the rattle fund out of the Consolidated Fund shall be repaid out of moneys pro- 1078 vided by Parliament before the end of that financial year; and to authorise the payment into the cattle fund out of moneys provided by Parliament of such sums as Parliament may determine;
  3. (3) to provide for authorising the appropriate Ministers to make out of the cattle fund payments to producers of cattle in respect of sales of steers, 'heifers or cow-heifers, or carcases thereof, effected in the United Kingdom by such producers during a period beginning on or after the first day of September, nineteen hundred and thirty-four, and ending on the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and thirty-five, being payments at a rate which—
    1. (a) in the case of any live animal, does not exceed five shillings per hundredweight; or
    2. (b)in the case of any carcase, does not exceed nine shillings and four pence per hundredweight;
  4. (4) to provide for the appointment of a cattle committee by the appropriate Ministers, and for authorising the appropriate Ministers with the approval of the Treasury to pay out of the cattle fund the remuneration of the members, staff and agents of that committee, and any other expenses incurred by the committee or by the appropriate Ministers in connection with the matters aforesaid;
  5. (5) to provide for the marking of imported cattle and for such matters as are incidental to, or consequential on, the matters hereinhefore mentioned."

Bill ordered to be brought in upon the said Resolution by Mr. Elliot, Sir John Gilmour, Sir Godfrey Collins, and Mr. Duff Cooper.