HC Deb 08 March 1990 vol 168 c848W
75. Mrs. Ann Winterton

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what proposals he will he seeking EC approval for in respect of the distribution of additional milk quota in 1990.

Mr. Gummer

My proposals were that quota should be allocated to producers who received awards from the dairy produce quotas tribunal which were scaled hack 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 loan 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 he laid before Parliament and the majority of the quota issued before the end of the current quota year.