§ Mr. Spearingasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will tabulate the total volume of liquid milk produced in each of the members of the EEC for each of the years 1973, 1974 and 1975 and the first three months of 1976, respectively.
§ Mr. BishopFigures for the years 1973, 1974 and 1975 are given in the table below. Details of Community milk production during the first three months of 1976 on a comparable basis are not yet available. For the United Kingdom, however, production in the period January to March 1976 totalled 3,274 million litres, compared with 3,018 in the same period last year.
million litres 1973 1974 1975 Belgium … 3,506 3,602 3,517 Denmark … 4,805 4,679 4,776 France … 21,834 24,183 23,794 Germany … 20,654 20,889 20,982 Ireland … 3,134 3,059 3,487 Italy … 8,754 8,644 8,498 Luxembourg … 226 239 236 Netherlands … 9,085 9,629 9,931 United Kingdom … 13,831 13,436 13,421 Total EEC … 85,828 88,360 88,641