§ Mr. Hawkinsasked the Secretary of State for Industry if he will include small and medium-sized farm and horticultural businesses in his programme of aid to small industrial manufacturing businesses.
§ Mr. MacGregorThe farm and horticulture sector benefits from almost all the measures we have introduced for small businesses together with other longer established forms of financial assistance for the sector. The loan guarantee scheme launched this year is not available for agriculture and horticulture, for which a similar Government supported scheme has been operated for many years by the Agricultural Credit Corporation Ltd.