§ Mr. Spearingasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will publish in the Official Report a summary by scheme of the United Kingdom expenditure borne by the FEOGA fund of the EEC in the year 1974 and an estimate of similar expenditure for 1975.
§ Mr. BishopThe information is as follows
Guarantee SectionExpenditure borne by FEOGA in 1974 is shown in Table L of the Report of the Intervention Board for the calendar year 1974 (Cmnd. 6033). Estimates of expenditure on 422W the same basis for the calendar year 1975 are not available, but receipts in the first quarter of 1975 compared with those in the same period of 1974 have been enhanced by substantial FEOGA payments of MCAs, on beet and on the special import subsidy for sugarGuidance SectionExpenditure by FEOGA on common and special measures does not begin until the year following that in which Government expenditure took place. Thus FEOGA expenditure in 1974 reflects 1973 claims. Claims for 1974 expenditure have not yet been submitted.
1974 Actual FEOGA expenditure £ Dairy Herd Conversion Scheme 20,357 1975 Estimates FEOGA Expenditure Modernisation of farms: (i)Farm and horticulture development scheme 11,000 (ii) Guidance premium for beef and sheepmeat production 21,000 Provision of socio-economic advice 21,400 Acquisition of occupational skills 835,000 Dairy herd conversion scheme 4,730,000 Grants to producer organizations (fruit and vegetables) 4,300 Hop gardens replanting and restructuring 32,200 There was no expenditure by FEOGA in 1974 on United Kingdom projects approved under the 1973 individual projects scheme. No. information can yet be given about 1975 FEOGA expenditure mainly because it is impossible to forecast what projects will come forward for payment in that year.