§ Mr. Cockeramasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will make a statement on the sugar subsidy operated by the Sugar Board.
§ Mr. GodberThe Sugar Board operates the subsidy to sugar refiners and also operated the consumer subsidy which was paid up to 30th June this year. I would refer my hon. Friend to the statement I made to the House on 18th
AVERAGE NET INCOME PER FULL-TIME FARM Type of Farming 1969–70 £1 per farm 1971–72 Increase Farms without Dairy Herds Cash roots … … 5,127 6,468 1,341 Cash roots with intensive livestock … … 6,417 11,014 4,597 Mixed … … 2,018 4,022 2,004 Arable with intensive livestock … … 5,779 9,017 3,238 Corn and livestock … … 1,216 4,359 3,142 Wold type … … 4,048 5,486 1,438 Farms with Dairy Herds Cash roots … … 4,125 7,284 3,159 General cropping … … 2,086 6,603 4,517 Mainly dairying … … 1,937 5,762 3,825 Intensive milk … … 2,328 5,317 2,989 Dale Farms Milk … … 1,361 4,680 3,319 Mixed … … 1,791 6,508 5,147 Sheep … … 2,216 4,501 2,285 The samples for these two years are not completely identical.