HC Deb 09 June 1988 vol 134 cc680-1W
51. Mr. Teddy Taylor

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will publish a table showing the recent special sales of food authorised by the European Economic Community, the tonnages involved and the prices in terms of pence per pound.

Mr. MacGregor

At any one time CAP arrangements provide for a mumber of sales schemes from intervention and from the open market. These tend to follow established patterns, but the following sales to non-EC countries, agreed over the past 12 months, have distinguishing features:

Commodity Date Quantity Destination Sale Price
(tonnes) p/lb
Beef January-November 12,000 Peru 23.0–31.24
Beef August-November 1987 8,000 Peru 23.0–23.34
Beef March 1988 5,921 Venezuela 31.64
1 The price is calculated from the dollar equivalent of the price actually paid by the purchaser (including MCAs), converted into sterling at the spot rate at the time of the sale.
2 Some of the grain exported was of United Kingdom origin.
3 The price is the actual sale price (exclusive of MCAs), converted into sterling at the green rate. None of the butter was exported from the United Kingdom.
4 The price is the sale price (including MCAs) that would have obtained if the beef had been exported from the United Kingdom, which it was not.