§ Mr. Denzil Daviesasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what percentage of all farmers in Great Britain and in Wales, respectively, are eligible for the financial inducements to cease farming which are provided by Direction 72/160 EEC, 17th April, 1972.
§ Mr. Anthony StodartThe directive leaves member States to lay down the precise conditions of eligibility, and in Great Britain these would be broadly in line with the present conditions for payments to outgoers giving up uncommercial units. The estimated percentage of farmers with uncommercial units eligible226W for an outgoer's payment under the United Kingdom scheme is 44 per cent, in Great Britain and 54 per cent, in Wales. But it is impossible to estimate how many of these would actually want or be able to qualify for an outgoer's payment by giving up their farms for approved purposes.