asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs when the EEC Council of Ministers is expected to approve the areas in which aid to crofters and hill farmers will be approved; and when the relevant directive will be implemented in the United Kingdom.

I have been asked to reply.I would refer the hon. Member to the replies given by my hon. Friend the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, to the hon. Member for Cardigan (Mr. Howells) on 23rd and 25th June.—[Vol. 894, c. 38 and