1.   And we will continue to support hill farmers through the Hill Livestock Compensatory Allowances.

2.   Does he agree that hill farmers had a substantial drop in income in recent years?

3.   Many hill farmers are smallholders with part-time jobs elsewhere.

4.   Many of the fodder crops are sold to the hill farmers and some are used to fatten the lambs.

5.   The incomes of my hill livestock farmers are under real pressure.

6.   The poverty of hill farmers had no parallel.

7.   The power that small hill farmers and poorer urban dwellers have in the state apparatus and in society at large is negligible.

8.   This was despite government assurances that hill farmers would not be made worse off.

9.   HANNAH Hauxwell, the former Teesdale hill farmer who became famous for living in virtual isolation miles from civilisation, is to appear on This Is Your Life shortly.

10.   Dr Gavin Strang, for Labour, said the Government had no idea of the poverty and misery which was occurring among hill farmers.