§ Mr. Hicksasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will revise the existing levels of compensation paid to farmers for TB reactors found in their herds, which were introduced in June 1972, to take account of changes in the value of the pound since that date.
Mr. StrongNo. Changes in compensation levels for reactors to the tuberculin126W private sectors, respectively, in each of the years 1950 and 1975.
§ Miss Joan LestorInformation about pupils is not collected by the Department in terms of the year of their entry to a school. The following estimates of the numbers entering particular kinds of school have been made on the basis of the total numbers of pupils registered in schools in England and Wales at January each year.
test should be related to changes in the market price for commercial cattle rather than in the value of the pound. The proportion of reactors affected by the £180 ceiling on compensation has not been significantly different in recent months from what it was in June 1972.