§ Mr. SteelTo ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when he now expects to announce the end of the variable sheep premium and the choice of base year for calculation of the replacement single ewe premium.
§ Mr. Donald ThompsonProposals to phase out the sheep variable premium scheme and replace it with a single ewe premium form part of a package of proposals by the EC Commission for a review of the sheepmeat regime. Discussion on these proposals have made little headway.