HC Deb 25 November 1941 vol 376 c607W
Sir W. Smithers

asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food why a potato grower who has not gone to the trouble and expense of good cultivation and spraying to ensure a heavy crop receives the same £10 subsidy per acre as the man who has been put to all this trouble and expense?

Major Lloyd George

The county war agricultural executive committees are notifying the Ministry of Food of any bad cultivators of potatoes and the Government payments may be withheld in these cases but the growers' financial reward is mainly determined by the size of his potato crop and not by the £10 grant.