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Dr. David Clark
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will list the number of (a) farms, (b) sheep and (c) acres in Northern Ireland currently under restriction owing to the radioactive contamination following the Chernobyl accident.
Mr. Peter Bottomley
The information at November 1989 is as follows:
| Number | |
| Number of farms | 123 |
| Number of sheep | 19,570 |
| Area of land | 121,612 |
| 1 acres. | |
Dr. David Clark
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what expenditure he has incurred in compensation for farmers in Northern Ireland as a result of the Chernobyl accident for each year since 1986.
Mr. Peter Bottomley
The amount of compensation paid to farmers in Northern Ireland resulting from the Chernobyl accident was as follows:
| £ | |
| 1987–88 | 12,658 |
| 1988–89 | 29,084 |
| 11989–90 | 18,313 |
| 1 (to date). | |