§ Mr. BoswellTo ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what have been for each of the last five years, the administration costs of maintaining a register of410W confusion marks for the purposes of the sheep variable premium scheme; and how many animals were so registered in each of these years.
§ Mr. Donald Thompson[holding reply 13 June 1989]: The cost of administering the confusion mark procedures are not separately recorded. Nor are the number of animals registered under the system noted centrally. Those figures could be extracted only at disproportionate cost.