§ Mr Joplingasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food how much money he estimates Her Majesty's Government have saved in each of the seven last lull years, by virtue of the fact that standard quantity limitations on production have been in effect.
§ Mr. John MackieIt is not possible to make meaningful estimates of the effect of all such arrangements. For pigs, it would involve making assumptions as to what the circumstances might have been without the arrangements. For wheat and barley, however, had the standard quantities arrangements not been in operation, assuming no change in the size of the harvest, guarantee payments to growers in the U.K. would have been £5,715,000 higher in the crop year 1964–65, when the arrangements were introduced, £6,612.000 higher in 1965–66, £6,343,000 higher in 1966–67 and £3,146.000 higher in 1967–68. The standard quantity for wheat was abolished following the 1968 Annual Review.