§ 78. Mr. Kimballasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food how many farm improvement schemes have still to be approved in the Parts of Lindsey.
§ Mr. GodberOut of 349 applications received in the Parts of Lindsey by the end of January, 94 had been approved, 69 had been withdrawn or rejected and of the 186 still under consideration 123 were ready for approval subject to the provision of certain information by the applicants.
Mr. Watkinsasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will indicate the number of applications which have been received in Wales for grants under the farm improvement schemes and the number of those rejected, indicating so far as posible in the case of the latter the reasons for their rejection, in particular when the failure of the income of the holding to meet the requirements laid down constituted one of those reasons.
§ Mr. GodberTo the 31st December, 1957, 2,722 applications from Wales and Monmouthshire had been received for grants under the farm improvement scheme, and, of these, 369 applications had been rejected. In 131 cases the proposals did not satisfy the test in Section 12 of the Agricuture Act, 1957, which requires that the land which a proposed improvement is intended to benefit is, or after improvement will be capable of yielding a sufficient livelihood to a reasonably skilled occupier. In 73 other cases the proposals did not satisfy the statutory test, which requires that a prudent landlord would be willing to make the improvement himself or to pay compensation to a tenant for making it. The remaining 165 cases were rejected for various other reasons.