European Community (Commodity Supplies)

HC Deb 24 February 1981 vol 999 cc351-2W

Mrs. Kellett-Bowman

asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, in terms of current consumption, how many days' supply the European Economic Community has of milk powder, butter, beef, lamb, wheat, feed grains, sugar and wine.

Mr. Buchanan-Smith

The information requested, based on stocks held in public intervention and under assisted private storage measures, is shown in the table below:

Estimated Supply, in days, of stocks held in the European Community
	Public Intervention (Days)	AssistedPrivate Storage (Days)	Total (Days)
Skimmed milk powder	31	—	31

	Public Intervention (Days)	AssistedPrivate Storage (Days)	Total (Days)
Butter	23	19	42
Beef	16	2	18
Lamb	—	—	—
Wheat	47	—	47
Barley	11	—	11
Sugar	—	—	—
Table wine	—	166	166

Notes:

(i) The above estimates are calculated on stocks held at recent dates in public intervention and under assisted private storage measures.

(ii) No stocks of lamb or sugar are held at present.

(iii) "Wheat" includes both breadmaking wheat and teed wheat; barley is the only other feed grain in public intervention or under private storage measures.