Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Agriculture, Fisheries and Food – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 13 July 1964.
Mr Albert Hilton
, South West Norfolk
12:00,
13 July 1964
Is the Minister aware that some of these late claims were from small farmers in my Constituency in Norfolk, who protest that they did not receive the original claim forms when they were sent out? In view of this, will he ask his right hon. Friend whether sympathetic reconsideration can be given to such cases, because they mean great hardship to small farmers?
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