HC Deb 21 May 1999 vol 331 c1430

Official Report, 18 May 1999: In column 971, Mr. Norman Baker's speech, the fifth sentence in the sixth full paragraph should read:

According to figures from the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and from the Meat and Livestock Commission, a comparison of farmgate prices in October 1997 and 1998 shows the price of feed wheat down 13 per cent., lamb down 32 per cent., beef down 18 per cent., pigmeat—suffering particularly badly—down 41 per cent., milk down 12 per cent., eggs down 13 per cent. and broilers down 7 per cent.

In column 974, the first sentence in the fourth full paragraph should read:

There is great worry among local farmers about what genetically modified crops mean for them.

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