HC Deb 16 January 2003 vol 397 cc739-40W
Mr. Lidington

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if she will make a statement on the implications for Government policy on the payment of slaughter premium of the arbitration decision in the case of Feakins v Defra. [89013]

Margaret Beckett

[holding answer 7 January 2003]There are no implications. The arbitration award included no payment of slaughter premium. The Government have made it clear that slaughter premium

Companies registered as stakeholder pension providers on 6 April 20011 Address Have since 6 April 2001 notified that they have stopped offering stakeholder pensions direct to individuals2
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is not payable in respect of FMD culled cattle because the scheme criteria were not met, and that no adjustment is needed to compensation based on market value.