§ Queen's recommendation having been signified—
§ Resolved,
§ That, for the purposes of any Act of the present Session to establish a body corporate to be known as Food from Britain to improve the marketing of food produced or processed in the United Kingdom and of other agricultural produce of the United Kingdom; to transfer to Food from Britain the functions of the Central Council for Agricultural and Horticultural Co-operation and to dissolve the Central Council; to enable certain other marketing organisations to make contributions to Food from Britain; and to repeal section 61(9) of the Agriculture Act 1967, it is expedient to authorise the payment out of money provided by Parliament of—
- (a) grants made with the approval of the Treasury to Food from Britain by the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretary of State for Scotland, the Secretary of State for Wales and the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland;
- (b) loans made with the approval of the Treasury to Food from Britain by any of those Ministers, provided that the aggregate amount outstanding at any time by way of principal of the sums borrowed by Food from Britain shall not exceed £500,000; and
- (c) such allowances, remuneration and pensions, or such sums for the provision of pensions, to or in respect of any member of Food from Britain, and such sums to a person on his ceasing to be a member of Food from Britain, as those Ministers may with the approval of the Treasury determine.—[Mr. Goodlad.]