Set-Aside (Hansard, 9 June 1988)

§ 27. Mr. Ian Bruce
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will make a statement on progress in implementing the community set-aside scheme in the United Kingdom.

41. Mr. Alan W. Williams
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will make a statement outlining the Government's policy towards grazing fallow as an option in the set-aside proposals.

§ 65. Mr. Gale
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will make a statement on progress in implementing the Community set-aside-scheme in the United Kingdom.

§ Mr. MacGregor
I refer my hon. Friend to the reply given earlier today to the hon. Member for Burnley (Mr. Pike)

§ 50. Mr. Livsey
To ask the Minister of Agriculture Fisheries and Food what representations he has made to the European Community on the proposals for the substitution of cereals set-aside with grazing land.

§ Mr. MacGregor
The Community set-aside scheme allows the option to member states to permit land set aside from arable crops to be grazed by livestock. In discussion of the detailed rules, I have insisted that there should be tighter control on the number of livestock which can be grazed on set-aside land in those member states applying this option.