§ Mr. McQuarrieasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, in the light of the failure to adjust the strict standards for beef going into intervention which has caused a considerable reduction in beef prices, whether he will further use the power available to him to relax the British intervention standards immediately.
§ Mr. Buchanan-SmithNo. Prices for carcase beef are at about the same level as they were last year. I am keeping the situation under close review; but I do not believe that changes in the intervention standards would materially improve producers' returns.