HC Deb 23 November 1987 vol 123 cc5-6W
Mr. Bernie Grant

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement about Her Majesty's Government's position regarding the imminent negotiations on sugar quotas to the EEC.

Mrs. Chalker

On 22 October the Commission openea negotiations with the ACP on the guaranteed prices to apply to cane sugar deliveries from the ACP states listed in Protocol 7 annexed to the third ACP/EEC (Lome) Convention during the 1987–88 delivery period. The Commission is negotiating on the basis of a mandate agreed by all member states, including the United Kingdom.