§ Mr. RedmondTo ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if she will list by county how many applications for payment of sheep annual premium she has received in the current year; and what proportion in each county remained unpaid on 1 March.
§ Mr. JackThe table shows for each county the total number of claims under the 1994 sheep annual premium scheme lodged with the Ministry. No claims have been paid as at 1 March. It is expected that the first advance payment will be made in the autumn in the usual way.
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County Number of Claims Durham 1,032 Cleveland 117 West Yorkshire 691 South Yorkshire 203 North Yorkshire 3,793 York District 115 Humberside 483 Hereford and Worcester 2,911 Gloucestershire 1,074 Warwickshire 805 West Midlands 75 Bedfordshire 177 Cambridgeshire 180 Essex 267 Hertfordshire 141 Norfolk 422 Suffolk 330 Derbyshire 1,173 Leicestershire 895 Lincolnshire 631 Northamptonshire 765 Nottinghamshire 285 Dorset 606 Avon 405 Wiltshire 1,512 Somerset 506 Cheshire 663 Merseyside 22 Shropshire 1,955 Staffordshire 1,007 Greater Manchester 215 Cumbria 3,852 Lancashire 1,762
County Number of Claims Tyne and Wear 30 Northumberland 1,486 Cornwall 1,762 Devon 4,635 Berkshire 144 Buckinghamshire 539 Hampshire 458 Isle of Wight 110 Kent 1,115 Greater London 23 Oxfordshire 494 Surrey 303 East Sussex 673 West Sussex 364 TOTAL 41,206
§ Mr. RedmondTo ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food by what date she expects all applications for sheep annual premium in the current year to be paid out.
§ Mr. JackI expect payments under the 1994 sheep annual premium scheme to be completed by June 1995.