§ Dr. StrangTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland 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 Scotland containing less favoured area land.
§ Sir Hector MonroThe information is set out in the table. It is based on payments under the 1992 hill livestock compensatory allowances scheme.
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Number of Payments County Severely disadvantaged areas Disadvantaged areas Aberdeen 798 190 Angus 149 16 Argyll 1,076 — Ayr 743 100 Banff 387 51 Berwick 139 21 Cumbrae and Bute 48 4 Arran 88 — Caithness 741 — Clackmannan 15 — Dumfries 682 13 Dunbarton 99 14 Fife 105 7 Inverness 2,590 3 Kincardine 156 21 Kinross 46 9 Kirkcudbright 548 3 Lanark 604 63 Lothian, East 36 4 Lothian, Mid 113 12 Lothian, West 65 4 Moray 167 6 Nairn 54 2 Orkney 942 — Peebles 180 3 Perth 586 23
Number of Payments County Severely disadvantaged areas Disadvantaged areas Renfrew 180 6 Ross 2,568 20 Roxburgh 288 12 Selkirk 117 — Stirling 216 19 Sutherland 735 — Wigtown 410 31 Shetland 1,589 — Total 17,260 657