§ Mr. Nicholas Bakerasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will give details of his proposals for implementing the supplementary levy on milk in the United Kingdom.
§ Mr. JoplingMy right hon. Friends the Secretaries of an State for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and I have today laid in draft before Parliament the Dairy Produce Quotas Regulations 1984. The quota regulations set out the detailed arrangements for the initial allocation of quotas for both wholesale and direct sales of milk, an including provisions for the treatment of special cases and producers previously committed to an expansion plan and for appeals to a system of local panels and tribunals. Arrangements for the transfer of quotas are not included in the draft regulations. We shall be consulting further on this matter and the necessary additional provisions will be made at a later date.
Our intention is that the quota regulations should come into operation as soon as they have been approved by both Houses. When they are made, guidance and application forms will be sent to milk producers inviting them to apply as necessary to be registered for direct sales quota and to be treated as a special case within certain categories.