§ Mr. Hooleyasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will list in the Official Report the EEC price and the world price in September 1975 of husked rice, barley, maize, white sugar, beef, pigmeat, eggs, butter, skimmed milk powder, olive oil, common wheat and durum wheat expressed in sterling at the exchange rate value of 30th September 1975.
§ Mr. BishopThere is no easily identifiable basis for measuring world prices, and comparisons of prices of foodstuffs from different sources are made difficult by differences in quality, grading, presentation of products and stage of marketing. Subject to these reservations, the latest available comparison of prices of the products listed, imported into the United Kingdom from EEC and non-EEC sources, is given below. The prices represent average unit values for August 1975. Values were recorded in sterling terms at the rate of exchange appropriate at the time of lodgement of the Customs entry.