§ Mr. Teddy Taylorasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he now has the figures indicating the exports of subsidised food and wine, by commodity, to the Soviet Union by be European Economic Community in 1981; and if he will publish a table showing the comparable exports by commodity for each of the previous five years.
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§ Mr. Buchanan-SmithThe latest 1981 figures remain those given in my reply on 24 March. Exports by the Community—including the United Kingdom—for the previous five years were as follows:
tonnes 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 Wheat — — — 5,050 576,204 Barley 439,450 — 404,869 215,023 222,316 Wheat Flour — — — — 330,131 Malt 97,537 31,017 45,026 106,541 124,886 Butter and butteroil — 49,131 20,895 134,649 142,136 Skimmed milk powder — — — — — Beef and veal 24,077 3,354 — 22,132 97,203 Pigmeat — — — 4,718 — Poultrymeat 17,824 61,712 6,217 77,106 67,406 Sugar (refined) 184,646 252,872 1,503 225,053 648,623 Wine (hectolitres) 42,875 1,395 103,684 495,846 1,324,187 Source: Eurostats.
RefVol. 20, c. 203–204.