Question
If (a) hill livestock compensatory allowances, (b) beef and (c) suckler cow premium payments will be paid to those producers who will no longer be able to meet the animal retention conditions of those schemes due to the requirements of the over thirty months scheme or the selective cull.
Answer
Mr. Welsh: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if (a) hill livestock compensatory allowances, (b) beef and (c) suckler cow premium payments will be paid to those producers who will no longer be able to meet the animal retention conditions of those schemes due to the requirements of the over-30 months scheme or the selective cull; and if he will make a statement. [12644] Mr. Robertson: We are consulting with the European Commission on the position of animals slaughtered under the selective cull while in a retention period for the schemes listed. The normal retention period rules apply to animals entering the over-30 months scheme.