§ Mr. Alex CarlileTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales what are the yield figures set for land in(a) less-favoured areas and (b) non-less-favoured areas in the calculation of arable aid payments in Wales for the 1994–95 marketing year; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. RedwoodThe yield in the LFA is set at 3.32 tonnes per hectare—t/ha—and the yield in the non-LFA is set at 5.17 t/ha. These yields give an overall average yield for Wales of 4.65 t/ha, the historical average yield for 1986–89, excluding the lowest and highest annual yields, as required by the EC regulation. It would require an EC change of regulation to allow more up-to-date yields to be used.
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§ Mr. Alex CarlileTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales how much a fanner growing cereals will be paid in arable aid for each hectare of cereals grown in 1993–94 in(a) less-favoured areas in Wales and (b) non-less-favoured areas in Wales; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. RedwoodThe payment under the arable area payments scheme for cereals grown in Wales in 1993–94 will be 116.20 ecu per hectare in the LFA and 180.95 ecu per hectare in the non-LFA. These will be converted to
Simplified Scheme Main Scheme County Area Claimed (ha) Cereals Area Claimed (ha) Oilseeds Area Claimed (ha) Protein Area Claimed (ha) Set-aside Area Claimed (ha) Total Clwyd 3,707 1,823 209 178 442 2,652 Dyfed 9,284 3,508 309 240 810 4,867 Gwent 2,342 2,501 389 129 547 3,566 Gwynedd 1,830 783 35 43 165 1,026 Mid Glamorgan 320 1,097 139 76 238 1,550 Powys 3,290 2,421 192 75 488 3,176 South Glamorgan 882 1,889 98 102 398 2,487 West Glamorgan 655 114 30 — — 170 TOTAL 22,310 14,136 1,401 843 3,114 19,494 The total number of claims received were Main Scheme 299.
Simplified scheme, 2,223—this information is not available on a county basis.