§ Sir Peter Millsasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food by how much total the European agriculture guidance and guarantee fund guarantee section expenditure is expected to exceed the provision in the 1982 European Community budget.
§ Mr. Peter WalkerFar from exceeding the Budget provision, FEOGA guarantee expenditure is expected to be considerably below the figure in the original 1982 budget. The appropriation initially made available for the guarantee section amounted to 13,703 mecu (£7,530 million), whereas the Commission has recently presented a revised figure of 12,482 mecu (£6,860 million), some 1,220 mecu (£670 million) below the original appropriations. The eventual saving on the original budget provision is of course still uncertain.