HC Deb 05 December 1974 vol 882 cc550-1W
33. Mr. Guy Barnett

asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food how much beef from the Common Market beef mountain has been sold to the USSR directly or indirectly in 1974.

Mr. Bishop

Meat released from intervention stores may be bought by private traders, and the arrangements for marketing it thereafter are a matter for normal commercial transaction. Details of such transactions are not available. No special assistance is given under Community arrangements for sales to Eastern Europe.

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