§ 36. Mr. John Evansasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what is his estimate of the surplus beet sugar production in the EEC for the current year.
§ Mr. BishopThe total quantity of sugar surplus to the needs of the internal EEC market and available for export in the crop year ending 30th September 1978, after taking account of guaranteed imports of cane sugar under the Lomé Convention sugar protocal and associated agreements, is currently estimated to be about 3.55 million tonnes white sugar equivalent.