§ Mr. Welshasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he has any plans to inject cash into the hill livestock producing industry before the March 1979 introduction of increased hill livestock compensation amounts; and what effects he estimates that the delay in implementing these new hill livestock compensatory rates will have on the industry.
§ Mr. BishopThe Government will review the economic position of hill farmers in the United Kingdom in the autumn and determine whether any change should be made in the hill livestock compensatory allowances due at the beginning of next year.
§ Mr. Welshasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what effect he calculates that the fall in value of the pound sterling has had on the value of payments due to be made to hill farmers under hill livestock compensatory amounts following the green pound devaluation of 2nd February 1978.
§ Mr. BishopNeither the fall in the value of the pound sterling nor the devaluation of the green pound has had any direct effect on the rates or values of the hill livestock compensatory allowances payable in the United Kingdom.