§ 17. Sir Raymond Gowerasked the Secretary of State for Wales if he will state his latest assessment of the operation of the milk quota scheme in Wales.
§ Mr. Nicholas EdwardsAll producers have now been allocated their quota entitlements and are fully aware of the operation of the supplementary levy. We have made additional quota available to many producers suffering specific difficulties and for over half of the milk producers in Wales the effects of quotas have been virtually eliminated through reallocations of quota to small producers.
§ Sir Raymond Gowerasked the Secretary of State for Wales what was the percentage reduction in milk production in Wales and in South Glamorgan, respectively, from the introduction of the milk quota scheme to the latest convenient date.
§ Mr. Nicholas EdwardsSales of milk off farms in Wales in the past three years are as follows:
Year ending Million Litres March 1984 1,780.3 March 1985 *1,646.7 March 1986 (provisional) †1,656.3 *(- 7.5 per cent.). † (+0.5 per cent.). I regret that separate figures for South Glamorgan are not available.