§ Mr. Dudley Smithasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what estimates he has made of the additional cost of deficiency payments caused by uncontrolled importation of cattle and subsidised beef from Southern Ireland in the last financial year.
§ Mr. Cledwyn HughesIt is impracticable to isolate the effect of any specific factor in determining the average market prices on which deficiency payments are based. The level of imports was only one among many things that influenced prices during the financial year 1967–68; and total imports from all sources, including fat cattle, were less than in any year since decontrol.