§ Viscount Brookeboroughasked Her Majesty's Government:
When they will publish the report of the committee under the chairmanship of Sir Brian Hayes into the state of agriculture of Northern Ireland.
The Minister of State, Northern Ireland Office (The Earl of Gowrie)There are no plans for publishing the results of the inter-departmental review of Northern Ireland agriculture which was conceived and undertaken as an internal exercise, but on the basis of the information contained therein the Government have already announced in another place on 1st April their decisions on special measures costing £16 million for 1982–83. My honourable friend the Minister of State, has also initiated discussions with the Ulster Farmers' Union on the longer-term prospects for agriculture in Northern Ireland.