Potatoes (Hansard, 18 January 1993)

§ Dr. Strang
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food whether he considered comments made to him in response to the consultation letter from his Department of 26 November 1992 on potatoes which arrived at his Department after the deadline of 7 December 1992.

§ Mr. Gummer
Yes. We are considering all replies received to date.
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hill livestock compensatory allowances in England; and what proportion of those are located in (a) severely disadvantaged and (b) disadvantaged areas.

§ Mr. Gummer
Some 15,000 producers in England are currently entitled to claim hill livestock compensatory allowances; of these about 11,000 are in the severely disadvantaged area and 4,000 in the disadvantaged area.

§ Mr. Ron Davies
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will list the number and proportion of farmers in England who receive hill livestock compensatory allowance payments.

§ Mr. Curry
Around 15,000 farmers in England receive payments under the hill livestock compensatory allowances scheme representing about 11 per cent. of the total number of farmers in England.