Farmers In Less Favoured Areas

EDM number 1444 in 1989-90, proposed by Nicholas Winterton on 23/10/1990.

That this House notes with deep concern the particular problems which are currently being faced by farmers in less favoured areas; urges the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food to look urgently at the possibility of bringing forward the dates upon which premium payments to such farmers are to made; and believes that the green pound devaluation for sheep meat should be brought forward from 7th January 1991 to May 1990 as for other commodities.

This motion has been signed by a total of 1 MPs.