§ Dr. StrangTo ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food how many farmers are in receipt of hill livestock compensatory allowance payments in(a) severely disadvantaged areas and (b) disadvantaged areas in each county in England containing less-favoured area land.
§ Mr. GummerThe table shows the number of claims paid under the 1992 hill livestock compensatory allowance scheme from producers farming eligible land wholly within the severely disadvantaged area (SDA), or the disadvantaged area (DA) or on mixed land (i.e., SDA combined with DA land).
SDA DA Mixed Cheshire 117 26 35 Cleveland 5 17 4 Cornwall 58 561 137 Cumbria 1,501 411 868 Derbyshire 621 177 140 Devon 797 699 113 Durham 455 140 108 Greater Manchester 111 70 32 Hereford and Worcester 191 125 109 Lancashire 413 434 307 Northumberland 642 148 249 North Yorkshire 960 401 715 Stilly Isles 6 Nil Nil Shropshire 380 122 233 Somerset 264 23 43 South Yorkshire 50 59 33 Staffordshire 232 275 112 Tyne and Wear Nil 7 Nil West Yorkshire 572 130 88