§ Mr. Brocklebank-Fowlerasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will now announce steps to ensure a guaranteed price of £18 per cwt. live weight for beef as promised 319W earlier to the House, particularly as his subsidy scheme announced in the House on 17th of July is unlikely to do so for some months.
§ Mr. BuchanAs my right hon. Friend said in the House on 17th July, we are satisfied that the scheme which he announced then should ensure a return of about £18 per cwt. over the period of its operation, so long as producers respond by marketing cattle in an orderly manner.
§ Mr. Brocklebank-Fowlerasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will circulate in the official record details of the new subsidy scheme for beef and in particular the rates of subsidy which will apply each calendar month from the schemes inception until March 1975.
§ Mr. Joplingasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will make a statement indicating the exact mechanism by which the slaughter premiums he announced on 17th July will operate, and if he will indicate what payments will be received by the farmer if the average United Kingdom price in August is £14; £15; £16; £17; £18; £19; £21; £22; and £23 per cwt. for clean cattle.
§ Mr. BuchanAs my right hon. Friend announced in the House on 17th July a further statement on this subject will be made as soon as possible.
§ Mr. Joplingasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what price guarantee, or slaughter premium, beef producers will receive after March, when the present slaughter premium system ends.
§ Mr. BuchanArrangements for March and April will be decided following a review in December.