Early Potatoes

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Agriculture, Fisheries and Food – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 2 March 1966.

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Photo of Mr Henry Brewis Mr Henry Brewis , Galloway 12:00, 2 March 1966

Would the hon. Gentleman say why the Government exempted early potatoes from the quantity restrictions when they made the Anglo-Irish Treaty recently? Is this not certain to have a most undesirable effect on growers in the remote areas of Cornwall, Pembroke, Penrith and the like?