HC Deb 22 November 1962 vol 667 cc1562-4

Resolution reported,

That, for the purposes of any Act of this Session relating to agriculture, it is expedient to authorize— A. The payment out of money provided by Parliament of—

  1. (1) grants towards the cost of constructing, enlarging or adapting buildings for occupation and use by farmers' machinery 1563 syndicates and of providing such buildings with such services, means of access and other works as are reasonably required, being grants of an amount not exceeding one-third of that cost (or of a specified amount treated as that cost);
  2. (2) grants to bodies of persons engaged in organising, promoting or developing co-operation in agriculture or horticulture (including any activities carried on in connection therewith) or co-operation in the marketing of agricultural or horticultural produce;
  3. (3) grants towards the cost of carrying out approved proposals for promoting the efficient marketing of agricultural or horticultural produce, for carrying out research connected therewith, for making the result of such research available to producers of such produce, or for the formation of bodies carrying on agricultural or horticultural producers' marketing businesses, and contributions to the expenses incurred in connection with the examination of proposals by persons whose support is required as a condition of approval;
  4. (4) grants in respect of land used for growing crops for the winter feeding of livestock;
  5. (5) grants in respect of land under grass or similar crops which is renovated by the carrying out of operations thereon;
  6. (6) compensation for things seized for the purpose of preventing the spread of certain diseases of animals and poultry or of things which could be so seized but are destroyed, buried or disposed of without being seized;
  7. (7) any expenses incurred in making arrangements for making vaccine against fowl pest available at prices designed to encourage its use;
  8. (8) any sums necessary to enable any Minister of the Crown to make payments to persons who are displaced from land used by them for the purposes of agriculture, being land which is so used by way of a trade or business; and
  9. (9) any expenses of administration incurred by a Minister of the Crown by virtue of the said Act of this Session.
B. Any increase in the sums payable out of moneys provided by Parliament under any enactment attributable to any provision of the said Act of this Session—
  1. (1) increasing to thirty million pounds the maximum amount that may be paid in the aggregate by way of grants under section 1 of the Hill Farming Act 1946;
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  2. (2) adding four years to the periods by reference to which or days in which the making of subsidy payments is authorised by section 13 of the said Act of 1946;
  3. (3) increasing to ninety million pounds the maximum amount that may be paid in the aggregate by way of grants under Part II of the Agriculture Act 1957; and
  4. (4) extending contributions under the Agriculture (Fertilisers) Act 1952 to fertilisers used by growers of mushrooms, and to fertilisers applied to the crop instead of to the soil.
 C. Any increase attributable to the said Act of this Session in the sums which may be or are to be issued out of the Consolidated Fund or raised by borrowing under the Sugar Act 1956. D. Any increase attributable to the said Act of this Session in the sums payable out of moneys provided by Parliament by way of Rate-deficiency Grant or Exchequer Equalisation Grant under the enactments relating to local government in England and Wales or in Scotland. E. Any increase attributable to the said Act of this Session in the sums payable into the Exchequer under any other enactment.

Resolution agreed to.