§ Miss Emma NicholsonTo ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will apply the early retirement scheme so as to ease the structural changes which will follow the CAP reforms.
§ Mr. CurryThe scheme is primarily designed to amalgamate farms in those member states with large numbers of very small holdings. It is not relevant to United Kingdom conditions, where the average farm is already five times larger than in the EC as a whole.