Less-favoured Areas

HC Deb 07 July 1988 vol 136 c731W

30. Mr. Livsey

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will make a statement on the present state of farming in the less-favoured areas.

Mr. Kennedy

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will make a statement on the current levels of income within the hill farming sector.

Mr. MacGregor

We shall shortly be embarking on the normal autumn review of economic conditions in the hills and uplands. I expect to make a statement on the outcome of the review later in the year.

64. Mr. Martyn Jones

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when he next intends to meet representatives of the farming unions to discuss the redesignation of less-favoured areas.

Mr. Grimmer

I have no immediate plans to meet representatives of the farming unions to discuss this matter.