§ Mr. Muddasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will reconsider his plans for the reduction or phasing-out of cereal deficiency payments in the light of the detrimental effects this will have on agriculture in the West of England.
§ Mr. Anthony StodartNo. It is the Government's policy that growers should receive increasingly larger shares of their total return on cereals from the market and become progressively less reliant upon deficiency payments.