§ Mr. Teddy Taylorasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what subsidies or payments are not available to United Kingdom farmers, traders or other persons as a result of the freezing of certain expenditure on agriculture by the Common Market Commission; if these delayed funds or subsidies are being paid in the interim from national funds; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. MacGregorA European Commission regulation adopted on 12 October, and subsequently extended until the end of this year, suspends advance payments of certain aids and subsidies. This measure does not affect ultimate entitlement to the aid or subsidy on completion of the necessary formalities and aids and subsidies will continue to be paid when they fall due.
The aids and subsidies concerned are:
- Consumption aid for olive oil
- Crushing aid for oil seeds
- Deficiency payments for soya
- Subsidies for ginners using EC cotton
- Deficiency payments on peas and beans
- Premium payments on tobacco
- Private storage aid for butter
- Storage aid for certain quality wines in Germany and Luxembourg
- Voluntary distillation of wine
- Subsidised sugar for the chemical industry
- Export refunds
- Production aids for dried fodder
- Subsidies on the use of grain to make starch
No advance payments of these aids and subsidies are being made from national funds.