The area aid application of the person named has not yet been cleared so as to allow payment of headage and premium to him. Every effort is being made to clear all area aid applications, other than a small minority of very intractable cases, by the end of this month so that payment can be made in this and other similar cases during the next four to five weeks.
If the area aid application of the person named is found to be in order, he should be paid cattle headage and the advance of suckler cow premium within this period.
He was paid £1,810.13 for first instalment of 1997 ewe premium in July 1997.