§ Mr. Teddy Taylorasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if the information he presented on 20 February, Official Report, column 334, on the price at which various foodstuffs were made available to the Soviet Union included special sales agreed by the management committee of the EEC; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. GummerThe information contained in my right hon. Friend's reply of 20 February was extracted from the Eurostat trade data base constructed by the Statistical Office of the European Community (SOEC) from information provided by the member states. The exports recorded represent all sales from the Community reported to SOEC as having taken place in the period shown. The figures shown for 1985 were provisional.