HC Deb 04 November 1998 vol 318 c614W
Mr. Colvin

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate he has made of the cost to Her Majesty's Government of claiming all the agrimonetary compensation to which British farmers were entitled in the current financial year. [57920]

Mr. Byers

The cost to the Exchequer of making use of all agrimonetary compensation would have been £818.5 million.