The Ministry is due shortly to take over the countryside premium scheme.

More recently, the group moved into other pooled premium schemes, and the cost of insurance on the open market has fallen considerably.

It does not limit the production of beef. Instead, the proposal will introduce still more bureaucratic and expensive premium schemes.

Woodland option: Planting under farm woodland premium scheme or natural regeneration.

Satisfying this apparently restricted market can yield useful profits, as Age Concern has shown through its low premium scheme for house contents insurance.

A second point is a premium scheme for the use of nets, which restricts additional catches. This is a truly technological improvement.

Tree planting under Farm Woodland Premium Scheme to count towards set-aside.

The job losses are the result of the ending of the Sheep Variable Premium Scheme on 5 January, 1992.

The Suckler Cow Premium scheme pays producers who maintain suckler cows for rearing beef calves.

This morning we are dealing only with the first, a proposal to improve the intervention access, changes to the various premium schemes and other changes in the beef sector.

And it is also important, in my view, to consider uncoupling the premiums from output, to ensure that the premium schemes take greater account of the other agricultural policy objectives.

I must remind the House that even the extension of the premium scheme for the years 2002 to 2004 was only possible because the Commission undertook to reform the sector.

That year, the Farm Woodlands Scheme was also introduced, and replaced by the Farm Woodland Premium Scheme in 1992.

The farm and conservation grant scheme and the farm diversification grant scheme are both helpful measures, as is the new farm woodland premium scheme.

Those remaining - nearly 350 - will carry out a variety of functions including work on the purchase and sales of Intervention beef and the Beef Special Premium Scheme.

CHANGES in the Sheep Annual Premium Scheme regulations means that sheep farmers will have to count their sheep and record them from January.

Malcolm Thomas, the NFU's deputy director for Wales, points out that revised rules of eligibility will apply under the Suckler Cow Premium Scheme from January 1.

The Sheep Variable Premium Scheme involves the assessment of live sheep or carcases against standards set by the UK Government and forming part of the EC Sheep meat regime.

PROPHECIES of an extreme shortage of finished animals in the first weeks of the Beef Special Premium Scheme (BSPS) may have been self-defeating.

While many in the gambling community view this as a way in which they can earn respect from their peers in an otherwise isolated profession, tipping services also use these areas to attract users to their premium schemes.

It was a premium scheme, similar to many of O'Neill's operations, in that a phonograph machine was offered cheaply; however, this phonograph could only play Aretino records because it came with a 3-inch spindle.

I can certainly see no future prosperity while there is intervention and absurd support for beef under the special beef premium scheme, which is simply a further incentive to produce what the market does not want, either in quantity or quality.

NO SANE person would have devised the Beef Special Premium Scheme, admits its co-ordinator, Richard Cowan, head of the Ministry of Agriculture's beef policy division in Whitehall.

But at that stage, of course, the necessary steps should have been taken, and we must then open the third phase with the mid-term review, in order to ensure that the premium schemes take greater account of the other agricultural policy objectives.

Parents who fail to claim for free school meals for their children, despite being eligible for them, are being urged by a secondary head to apply in order to boost school funding under the new pupil premium scheme announced last month.