§ Mr. Macleanasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will reconsider his decision over delayed payments for butter taken into intervention.
§ Mr. MacGregorAlthough milk production has fallen since the introduction of quotas, United Kingdom public intervention stocks of butter now amount to 170,000 tonnes as compared with 143,000 tonnes a year ago. I would not want to take steps which could add to these and reduce the incentive to find real market outlets. Producers have this year received a 1.5 per cent. rise in the target price for milk and a cut of a percentage point in the co-responsibility levy.