§ Mr. MacdonaldTo ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, pursuant to his answer to the hon. Member for Western Isles on 30 June,Official Report, column 585, how many individual farmers as landowners will receive livestock compensatory allowance payments annually; what information he has in respect of how much is paid out in total and how much to individual farmers and landowners in hill livestock compensatory allowance payments; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. Donald ThompsonWe estimate that about 65,000 producers in the United Kingdom's less-favoured areas will receive hill livestock compensatory allowances this year, and that total expenditure will be of the order of E 120 million. We do not have a breakdown of these figures between landowners and other claimants.