Wheat Deficiency Payments.

Oral Answers to Questions — Agriculture. – in the House of Commons at on 3 May 1934.

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Photo of Mr Gordon Hall Caine Mr Gordon Hall Caine , Dorset Eastern

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asked the Minister of Agriculture the approximate difference between the amount actually received by the British farmers during 1933 for wheat and the amount they would have received had they been paid the prevalent world price for that commodity?

Photo of Mr William Ormsby-Gore Mr William Ormsby-Gore , Stafford

As stated in the reply given to a similar question by my hon. Friend on 16th April, the figure asked for, as regards the cereal year beginning 1st August, 1932, is represented approximately by the deficiency payments to registered producers under the Wheat Act which amounted to £4,510,946.