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Mr. Scott-Hopkins
The latest out-turn figure—subject to final adjustment and audit—of the cost of agricultural support in the financial year 1963–64 (Class V, Votes 3, 4, 5 and 6), is £294.1 million. Details are:
| I. FARMING GRANTS AND SUBSIDIES |
|
|
£ million |
| 1. |
General Fertilisers Subsidy |
33.6 |
| 2. |
Lime Subsidy |
8.1 |
| 3. |
Grants for Ploughing up Grassland |
9.9 |
| 4. |
Field Drainage and Water Supply Grants |
3.3 |
| 5. |
Grants for Improvement of Livestock Rearing Land |
1.5 |
| 6. |
Marginal Production Assistance Grants |
0.7 |
| 7. |
Bonus Payments under the Tuberculosis (Attested Herds) Scheme |
3.1 |
| 8. |
Calf Subsidy |
19.4 |
| 9. |
Hill Cattle and Hill Sheep |
8.0 |
| 10. |
Silo Subsidies |
0.3 |
| 11. |
Grants for Farm Improvements |
10.2 |
| 12. |
Grants to Rabbit Clearance Societies |
0.4 |
| 13. |
Grants to Small Farmers |
5.6 |
| 14. |
Other grants |
0.1 |
|
Total I |
104.2 |
| II IMPLEMENTATION OF AGRICULTURAL PRICE GUARANTEES |
| (1) Cereals:— |
|
£ million |
| Wheat and Rye |
30.3 |
|
| Barley |
36.8 |
|
| Oats and mixed corn |
10.0 |
|
|
|
77.1 |
| (2) Fatstock |
| Cattle |
40.8 |
|
| Sheep |
13.3 |
|
| Pigs |
26.5 |
|
|
|
80.6 |
| (3) Eggs |
|
20.2 |
| (4) Milk (excluding school and welfare milk) |
|
—* |
| (5) Wool |
|
0.6 |
| (6) Potatoes |
|
0.5 |
| Total II. |
|
179.0 |
| III. OTHER SERVICES |
| Payment to the Exchequer of Northern Ireland |
1.5 |
| Totals I, II and III |
284.7 |
| IV. ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES |
| Applicable to I and II only |
9.4 |
| Total cost of agricultural support |
294.1 |
4W* Following the 1962 Annual Review the retail price of milk was arranged so that neither a deficiency nor a surplus will arise, taking one year with another, from the implementation of the price guarantee.