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Dr. Strang
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many farmers are in receipt of hill livestock compensatory allowance payments in (a) severely disadvantaged areas and (b) disadvantaged areas in each county in Scotland containing less favoured area land.
Sir Hector Monro
The information is set out in the table. It is based on payments under the 1992 hill livestock compensatory allowances scheme.
| Number of Payments | ||
| County | Severely disadvantaged areas | Disadvantaged areas |
| Aberdeen | 798 | 190 |
| Angus | 149 | 16 |
| Argyll | 1,076 | — |
| Ayr | 743 | 100 |
| Banff | 387 | 51 |
| Berwick | 139 | 21 |
| Cumbrae and Bute | 48 | 4 |
| Arran | 88 | — |
| Caithness | 741 | — |
| Clackmannan | 15 | — |
| Dumfries | 682 | 13 |
| Dunbarton | 99 | 14 |
| Fife | 105 | 7 |
| Inverness | 2,590 | 3 |
| Kincardine | 156 | 21 |
| Kinross | 46 | 9 |
| Kirkcudbright | 548 | 3 |
| Lanark | 604 | 63 |
| Lothian, East | 36 | 4 |
| Lothian, Mid | 113 | 12 |
| Lothian, West | 65 | 4 |
| Moray | 167 | 6 |
| Nairn | 54 | 2 |
| Orkney | 942 | — |
| Peebles | 180 | 3 |
| Perth | 586 | 23 |
Number of Payments
| ||
County
| Severely disadvantaged areas
| Disadvantaged areas
|
| Renfrew | 180 | 6 |
| Ross | 2,568 | 20 |
| Roxburgh | 288 | 12 |
| Selkirk | 117 | — |
| Stirling | 216 | 19 |
| Sutherland | 735 | — |
| Wigtown | 410 | 31 |
| Shetland | 1,589 | — |
| Total | 17,260 | 657 |