§ Mr. Austin Mitchellasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food whether he will publish in the Official Report a table showing the amount of expenditure in the United Kingdom under the common agricultural policy per acre of cereals, rapeseed and sugarbeet, together with the amount spent per beef unit, per dairy cow, per pig, per sheep and per 1,000 chickens; and what is his estimate of the total amount of expenditure under the common agricultural policy per acre of agricultural land.
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§ Mrs. FennerExpenditure in the United Kingdom in 1985 under the common agricultural policy (CAP), expressed per hectare of different crops, was set out in my reply of 30 April at columns437–38. The corresponding information on livestock products, where expenditure can be specifically allocated, is shown in the table. Total (provisional) expenditure in the United Kingdom under the CAP, expressed per hectare of total agricultural area, was some £112 per hectare in 1985–86.
Average expenditure in the United Kingdom—provisional 1985 FEOGA funded United Kingdom Exchequer funded* £ £ Beef‡ (per head of total beef cattle)║ 21 24 Milk and milk products (per dairy cow) 83 28 Pigmeat (per head of total pigs) ‡ n/a Sheepmeat‡ (per head of total sheep) 6 n/a Poultrymeat and eggs (per 1,000 head of total poultry) 5 n/a n/a expenditure not separately identified. * United Kingdom expenditure less receipts from sales of intervention stocks. † levies collected exceed payments by approximately 10 p per pig; ‡ excluding special payments made in Less Favoured Areas in the form of hill livestock compensatory allowances: in 1985–86 these totalled £62.5m on sheep (£1.75 per head of total sheep) and £47.9m on beef (£5.30 per head of total beef cattle): ৷ total cattle other than those used, or intended to be used, for milk production.