§ Mr. Alfred Morrisasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food to what extent farmers and farm workers in the area of Lancashire and Cheshire and the area of the High Peak have received benefits under the Selective Agricultural Expansion Programme first announced by the Government in September, 1965, and subsequently revised in November, 1968.
§ Mr. Cledwyn HughesThis programme has given the agricultural industry in Lancashire, Cheshire and High Peak, as elsewhere, the guidelines for selective expansion on a consistent and continuing basis to 1972–73. The increases in the value of the guarantees for beef, pigs, sheep, milk and potatoes will have been of benefit in this area. Average earnings of agricultural workers have gone up by well over £3 a week.