§ Mr. Shersbyasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food whether the effect of differential export refunds applied to male and female beef animals is being monitored by his Department; and if he will take steps to ensure that the refunds applied will be at levels which will ensure the export of surplus Community prime beef and the retention in the Community of the manufacturing beef needed by the United Kingdom meat product processors.
§ Mr. Buchanan-SmithI will continue to urge the European Commission that due account should be taken 71W of the needs of the United Kingdom meat processing industry in the establishment of the levels of export refunds for beef. In this context, the effects of the recent introduction of differentiated refunds will be closely monitored.
§ Mr. Shersbyasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if, in view of the fact that beef product manufacturers have in recent years come to rely on intervention beef for an increasing part of their raw materials, he will press the European Commission for a large import quota in 1983 to replace that intervention beef which will no longer be available to manufacturers due to the adoption of a policy by the Commission for reducing EEC beef intervention stocks to low levels.
§ Mr. Buchanan-SmithWe shall continue to press the European Commission to take due account of the needs of beef product manufacturers in framing its proposals for the import of beef for manufacturing in 1983.