§ Mr. Welshasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish in the Official Report any figures he has to show the cost of financing hill livestock compensatory amounts; and when he expects to announce the promised increase in the present level of hill livestock compensatory amounts.
§ Mr. Hugh D. BrownThe figures are published in the Appropriation Account (Volume 1: Classes I–III) 1977–78 (House354W of Commons paper No. 137) and in"Agriculture in Scotland. Report for 1977"(Cmnd. 7185).
On the second point, I refer the hon. Member to the reply given by my right hon. Friend the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food to my hon. Friend the Member for Hayes and Harlington (Mr. Sandelson) on 13 March.—[Vol. 964, c. 89.]