71. Mr. De la Bèreasked the Minister of Food since, under the present Government scheme the small pig owner is not paid by the Government until the pig is 1992 actually killed and since the small pig owner has to pay cash for everything, he will consider reverting to the old control system of estimating the weight of the live pig on the day of the sale and paying cash before the farmer leaves the market?
§ Mr. Lennox-BoydI would refer my hon. Friend to the answer given to the hon. Member for Doncaster (Mr. J. Morgan) on 11th March.
Mr. De la BèreIs my hon. Friend aware that farmers are being compelled to finance the Government? Is he aware that the pigs delivered to the Government on 5th February have not yet been paid for, and can he not really do something about this? Fanners cannot go on delivering pigs and not being paid for them for weeks and weeks and weeks and weeks.