§ Mrs. Doris Fisherasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what is the amount and number of Government grants that have been paid during the four quarters of 1972 for new intensive poultry units.
§ Mr. Anthony StodartI regret that the only information available concerns72W grants for permanent poultry buildings. This does not distinguish between farms according to their methods of production. Grant paid under the farm capital grant scheme and as agricultural investment grants in respect of the provision, replacement, improvement, alteration or reconditioning of permanent poultry buildings on all types of holding—that is including those where poultry rearing is not the main enterprise—in 1972 was £1,649,000 in England and Wales. Quarterly payments were.
1972 £'000 January—March … … 452 April—June … … 434 July—September … … 428 October—December … … 335