§ Mr. GoodladTo ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food how many dairy farmers in each county in England and Wales produce milk up to the quota; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. Donald Thompson[pursuant to his answer, 25 January 1988, c. 52]: In the 1986–87 quota year, the number of dairy farmers in each county of England and Wales who delivered more milk than their wholesale quota are set out in the following table. The position given is before any interchange between wholesale and direct sale quota and is not therefore final. These data are held by the Milk Marketing Board on the basis of names and boundaries that applied in 1933; they do not therefore reflect existing county boundaries.
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County Number of producers over quota in 1986–87 As a percentage of total producers in county Cumberland 716 49 Durham 185 48 Northumberland 104 54 Westmorland 367 55 Yorkshire, East Riding 141 51 Yorkshire, North Riding 670 55 573W
County Number of producers over quota in 1986–87 As a percentage of total producers in county Cheshire 1,084 60 Lancashire 1,070 53 Yorkshire, West Riding 1,016 57 Derbyshire 717 61 Staffordshire 980 60 Lincolnshire 172 69 Cambridgeshire and Ely 17 63 Huntingdon and Peterborough 13 62 Suffolk 122 65 Norfolk 177 62 Bedfordshire 30 58 Leicestershire and Rutland 363 63 Northamptonshire 127 66 Nottinghamshire 131 65 Warwickshire 268 65 Gloucestershire 533 59 Herefordshire 236 59 Monmouth 241 61 Worcestershire 210 60 Shropshire 819 60 Anglesey 79 33 Caernarvon 83 35 Denbigh 355 56 Flint 279 61 Merioneth 21 25 Montgomery 254 58 Brecon 35 43 Cardigan 411 49 Carmarthen 806 46 Glamorgan 158 48 Pembroke 527 48 Radnor 9 50 Berkshire 101 55 Buckinghamshire 144 58 Hampshire and Isle of Wight 259 51 Oxfordshire 131 62 Dorset 570 56 Somerset 1,297 58 Wiltshire 592 64 Devon 1,559 49 Cornwall 918 49 Essex 71 54 Hertfordshire 55 52 Kent 130 53 Greater London 8 42
County Number of producers over quota in 1986–87 As a percentage of total producers in county Surrey 96 58 East Sussex 184 55 West Sussex 138 57 In England and Wales, supplementary levy liability arises on the net excess of deliveries over quota for the Milk Marketing Board as a whole. This system contributes to meeting the needs of the industry by providing the flexibility for some producers to exceed their quotas, and for this over-production to be offset by the extent to which other producers fall short of their quotas. In 1986–87, when the net excess of production over quota in England and Wales was less than 1 per cent., about 54 per cent. of producers were over quota and about 45 per cent. under quota.