§ Mr. P. Freemanasked the Minister of Agriculture the total amount of subsidy or grants provided by His Majesty's
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Grants for bulls … 23.838 24.153 30.725 25164 39,759 42,786 „ rams … 3.209 2,820 3,610 5.908 4,440 3.557 „ boar … 3,689 1,302 92 2,235 1.845 2.854 „ milk recording 6570 — 150 250 650 60,871 Bacon Industry: Payments by the Ministry of Agriculture in respect of pigs sold on long contracts and made into bacon (see Note 1) 193,272 — — — — — Losses incurred by the Ministry of Food through the purchase and sale of bacon pigs and of the bacon produced there from (see Notes 2 and 3) 456,562 5,679,041 2,331,587 2.560,536 2.045,732 2.039,850 Cattle Fund (see Note2): Payments to producers for live animals … … 3,839,163 443 7 12 — 7 Payments for carcases 102,907 12 — — — — Meat Industry (see Note 2): Losses incurred by Ministry of Food through the purchase and sale of cattle, calves and sheep, and of pigs not used for bacon production (see Note 3) … 3,906,897 21,957,482 19,984,901 19,412,972 18,457,464 20,532,884 Hill Cattle Subsidy (see Note 2) … — — 3,082 12,167 476,256 1,048,321 Hill Sheep Subsidy (see Note 2) … — — 605,215 1,568,073 1,751,663 1,348.032 Note 1.—These figures refer to Great Britain. Note 2.—These figures refer to the United Kingdom. Note 3.—These figures refer exclude profits or losses made on imported bacon and meat, but include trading wand other expenses of the Ministry of Food relating to the transactions of that Department in home produced livestock and meat including bacon