§ Mrs. PeacockTo ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food how she proposes to compensate those milk producers who choose not to join Milk Marque, the successor to the Milk Marketing Board, for resources employed by the Milk Marketing Board in seeking to establish Milk Marque as the dominant force in the milk industry.
§ Mr. JackExpenditure by the Milk Marketing Board on promoting its proposed successor body, Milk Marque, has been approved by the EC Commission under state aid rules. The board's reorganisation scheme makes no provision for repayment of part of the sum in question to producers who choose not to join the successor body. Nor, so far as I am aware, does the board have plans to do so outside the framework of the reorganisation scheme. It is not for Government to make proposals in this regard.