HC Deb 22 March 1995 vol 257 c254W
Mr. Llew Smith

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will set out the reason for the planned reduction in expenditure between the 1994–95 allocation of £6.9 million on environmentally sensitive areas and the 1995–96 plans to spend £5.5 million on environmentally sensitive areas, as set out at figure 2.01 on page 8 of Cm 2815.

Mr. Gwilym Jones

Planned domestic expenditure on environmentally sensitive areas is £5.5 million which together with planned EC expenditure of £1.4 million, gives a total of £6.9 million, the same as planned for 1994–95. the EC expenditure on this scheme is included under Other in the section headed Commodity Support Measures in figure 2.01—footnote 3 to the table refers.