§ Mr. Charles WardleTo ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he has submitted to the European Community Commission any detailed proposals for allocating an additional 1 per cent. of milk quota in 1990.
§ Mr. GummerMy proposals were that quota should be allocated to producers who received awards from the Dairy Produce Quotas Tribunal which were scaled back and have not yet been fully implemented; to smaller producers; to producers in remote areas, principally the islands of Scotland and the Scilly Isles; and to new entrants. The Commission raised a number of points in connection with these proposals. With one exception, which concerns my proposal to lend quota to new entrants rather than grant it outright, all points of difficulty have now been satisfactorily resolved and I am awaiting formal Commission agreement. Regulations will then be laid before Parliament and the majority of the quota issued before the end of the current quota year.