Mr. Watkinsasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food to give the payments made in respect of hill 42W sheep subsidy for each of the counties of Wales for the last financial year.
§ Mr. GodberThe Hill Sheep Subsidy payments made for each of the counties of Wales and Monmouthshire in the financial year ended 31st March, 1956, are set out in the following table. Payments however, relate to eligible flocks on a specified date in December and the Payments in respect of a particular "subsidy year" are spread over more than one financial year: in fact, a further sum of £916† was paid on the 1954–5 Scheme after the financial year to which the table relates.
County Payments in Financial Year 1st April, 1955 to 31st March, 1956 (1954–55 Subsidy Year*) £ s d Brecon … … 39,779 17 6 Caernarvon … … 31,181 17 6 Cardigan … … 27,815 17 6 Carmarthen … … 13,851 12 6 Denbigh … … 25,322 0 0 Flint … … 690 15 0 Glamorgan … … 20,382 15 0 Merioneth … … 51,341 7 6 Monmouth … … 8,119 5 0 Montgomery … … 38,747 0 0 Pembroke … … 2,926 2 6 Radnor … … 15,440 15 0 Total … … 275,599 5 0 * 1954–55 Subsidy: 5s. 0d. per ewe (Standard Rate) and 2s. 6d. per ewe (Reduced Rate) paid in respect of eligible flocks at 3rd December, 1954. † This sum is sub-divided as follows:—
Brecon … … £470 5s. 0d. Caernarvon … … 134 12s. 6d. Glamorgan … … 113 0s. 0d. Merioneth … … 78 0s. 0d. Radnor … … 120 2s. 6d.