Agricultural Subsidies (Hansard, 11 February 1964)

§ Sir P. Agnew

asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will give details of the latest estimates he has made of the agricultural subsidies for the United Kingdom for 1963–64, together with comparable figures for the previous year.

I. FARMING GRANTS AND SUBSIDIES	1963–64	1962–63
	£ million
1. General Fertilisers Subsidy	32.3	33.9
2. Lime Subsidy	7.8	10.0
3. Grants for Ploughing up Grassland	1[...].0	11.3
4. Field Drainage and Water Supply Grants	8.3	3.8
5. Grants for Improvement of Livestock Rearing Land	1.5	1.5
6. Marginal Production Assistance Grants	0.7	0.7
7. Bonus Payments under the Tuberculosis (Attested Herds) Scheme	8.3	5.2
8. Calf Subsidy	18.9	17.7
9. Hill Cattle and Hill Sheep	7.9	6.8
10. Silo Subsidies	0.3	0.6
11. Grants for Farm Improvements	0.3	10.3
12. Grants to Rabbit Clearance Societies	0.4	0.3
13. Grants to Small Farmers	6.0	7.2
14. Other grants	0.1	0.1
Total I	102.8	109.4

II. IMPLEMENTATION OF AGRICULTURAL PRICE GUARANTEES
1. Cereals:
Wheat and Rye	…	…	…	30.5		16.6
Barley	…	…	…	36.5		36.3
Oats and mixed corn	…	…	10.0		11.0
		77.0		63.9
2. Fatstock
Cattle	…	…	…	43.9		30.5
Sheep	…	…	…	13.9		18.9
Pigs	…	…	…	29.9		51.7
	…	…	…		87.7		101.1
3. Eggs	…	…	…		21.0	21.5
4. Milk (excluding school and welfare milk		—^*		—^*
5. Wool	…	…	…		0.6		3.2
6. Potatoes	…	…	…		0.5		0.4
TOTAL.II	…	…		186.8		190.1
III. OTHER SERVICES
Payment to the Exchequer of Northern Ireland		1.5		1.1
TOTALS I, II AND III	…		291.1		300.6
IV ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES Applicable to I and II only	…		9.4		9.0
TOTAL EXTIMATED COST OF AGRICULTURAL SUPPORT		300.5		309.6
Details of the original estimates of the cost of agricultural support were included in Table V of the Memorandum by the Financial Secretary to the Treasury on the Estimates 1963–64 (Cmnd. 1965).
^* Following the 1962 Annual Review the retail price was arranged so that neither a deficiency nor a surplus will arise, taking one year with another, from the implementation of the price guarantee.

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