Milk Quotas (Hansard, 28 July 1988)

§ Mr. Austin Mitchell
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food whether he will publish in theOfficial Report the highest recorded price per 1,000 litres on the sale of a United Kingdom milk quota, the capital value in terms of a cow with a representative milk yield and a representative price for the cow itself.

§ Mr. Donald Thompson
My Ministry does not collect this information.
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Service Committee on the financial and economic consequences of United Kingdom membership of the European Communities (pages 53–4 of HC57-II Session 1984–85).

§ Mr. Donald Thompson
I shall write to the hon. Member.

§ Mr. Austin Mitchell
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food whether he will bring up to date the figures in tables 4(e)2 and 4(e)3 of the evidence submitted by Her Majesty's Government to the Treasury and Civil Service Committee on the financial and economic consequences of United Kingdom membership of the European Communities (pages 37 to 38 of HC57-II Session 1984–85).

§ Mr. Donald Thompson
The most recent information corresponding to that in table 4(e)2 is set out in the Commission publication "The Agricultural Situation in the Community—1987 Report", page T/38. Table 4(e)3 is updated by the Eurostat publication "Agricultural Income 1987", page 98. Copies of these publications are in the Library of the House.

§ Mr. Austin Mitchell
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food whether he will bring up to date the figures in table 4(e) 1 including figures for Spain and Portugal, of the evidence submitted by Her Majesty's Government to the Treasury and Civil Service Committee on the financial and economic consequences of United Kingdom membership of the European Communities (pages 35–36 of HC57-II Session 1984–85)

§ Mr. Donald Thompson
Information on yields of agricultural products in the European Community is contained in the Commission publication "The Agricultural Situation in the Community—1987 Report", pp T/168, T/169, T/188, T/193, T/221 and T/282. A copy is in the Library of the House. The latest readily available information for the non-Community countries is shown in the table.