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Livestock Rearing

Volume 930: debated on Thursday 21 April 1977

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asked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland on what Votes the cost falls of the extra payments made to compensate Ulster livestock producers for the disparity between the sterling/green pound and Irish pound/green pound rates, and the monthly totals paid out in this manner in each of the last 12 months: and what is his projected out-turn for the present financial year of these payments.

The disparity referred to led to the introduction of the Meat Industry Employment Scheme under Northern Ireland Estimates Class 1 Vote 3 Subhead A4 (Employment Schemes).The monthly amounts paid out in 1976–77 were as follows:

£
April74,281
May156,643
June236,966
July307,374
AugustNil
SeptemberNil
OctoberNil
November1,066,806
December914,718
January670,423
February1,140,322
March2,964,263
The scheme has been extended to 30th June 1977; at present the further payments for animals marketed up to that date are expected to be about £8 million.