§ Mr. H. Hyndasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will give a list of the various subsidies paid to sections of the agricultural, horticultural, and forestry industries, with the amount in each case paid during the last complete financial year.
§ Mr. John HareThe following are particulars of the latest estimates of subsidies paid during the financial year 1958–59 to agricultural and forestry industries in the United Kingdom for which provisions54W were made in the Civil Estimates, Class VIII, Votes 2, 10 and 11. No subsidy was paid exclusively to horticulture but a number of the farming grants and subsidies, such as those for water supply, fertilisers and lime, cover horticulture as well as agriculture.
1958–59 £ million I. Farming Grants and Subsidies — (a) General fertilizers subsidy 26.0 (b) Lime subsidy 9.2 (c) Grants for ploughing up grassland 9.3 (d) Field drainage and water supply grants 2.9 (e) Grants for improvement livestock rearing land 1.7 (f) Marginal production assistance grants (including bracken destruction) 2.3 (g) Bonus payments under the Tuberculoses (Attested Herds) Scheme 8.6 (h) Livestock: improvement of breeding 0.1 (i) Calf subsidy 14.8 (j) Hill sheep and hill cattle 3.1 (k) Silo subsidy 1.1 (l) Grants for farm improvements 3.8 (m) Grants to Rabbit Clearance Societies 82.9 II. Implementation of Agricultural Price Guarantess — (a) Cereals: Wheat and Rye 19.7 Barley 23.1 Oats and Mixed Corn 9.8 52.6 (b) Home produced eggs 33.8 (c) Fatstock: Cattle 12.5 Sheep 11.7 Pigs 21.7 45.3 (d) Milk (excluding school and welfare milk) 10.1 (e) Wool 6.4 (f) Potatoes 6.9 Total I and II 238.0 III Payment under Section 32 of the Agriculture Act, 1957, to the Exchequer of Northern Ireland 0.8 IV Forestry — Grants to private woodland owners: Dedication and other miscellaneous grants 0.7 TOTAL GRANTS AND SUBSIDIES TO AGRICULTURAL, HORTICULTURAL AND FORESTRY INDUSTRIES £239.5