§ Mr. Shepherdasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what was the cost to the United Kingdom of storage of EEC intervention stocks for each of the last three years for each of the commodities involved.
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§ Mr. BishopThe United Kingdom contributes to the Communities' budget as a whole and not to its individual parts. The United Kingdom contribution was 8.78 per cent. in 1973, 11.04 per cent. in 1974 and 13.57 per cent. in 1975.
The cost to the Communities' budget of storage of EEC intervention stocks held in public intervention stores and in EAGGF-aided private storage in the last three years for which figures are available are set out below:
1973 £ million 1974 £ million 1975 £ million Cereals 29.9 13.4 23.4 Milk and milk products. 47.2 38.9 81.7 Sugar 28.2 32.0 38.3 Beef and veal 5.6 102.8 182.6 Pigmeat — 2.8 6.0 Wine 2.8 10.8 15.2 Tobacco 1.0 6.9 6.8 Total 114.7 207.6 354.0 All the figures are converted from unit of accounts at the rate of £1 = 2.4 ua.