17m pounds package to compensate egg producers

Title

17m pounds package to compensate egg producers

Genre

Interview

TX Date

20 Dec 1988

Year of production

1988

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Duration

00:02:08

Description

Interview with Conservative MP, Paul Marland, who successfully led the campaign for the removal of Edwina Currie as junior health minister, on the Government’s compensation package to help Britain’s egg industry following the salmonella scare. He says the 17 million pound programme to buy up 400 million unwanted eggs and pay for the culling of up to 4 million hens will go some way towards alleviating the crisis in the industry. Male interviewer not identified. Broadcast on the LBC AM programme.

Contributors

Paul Marland

Keywords

Government; Agriculture; Farming; Conservative Party; Compensation; Safety; Food; Ministers; Food safety; Eggs; Edwina Currie; Salmonella; Poultry farming; Poultry industry

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