HC Deb 16 March 1989 vol 149 cc353-4W
Mr. Cohen

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will list each food item, and the quantity of it, destroyed during 1988 under the European Community farm regulations.

Mr. Donald Thompson

The following were the types and amounts of produce withdrawn from the market in the United Kingdom in 1988 under European Community arrangements, together with the quantitites of each product marketed in the same period.

(Tonnes)
Withdrawn from the market
Commodity Marketed Used for animal feed Dumped
Cauliflowers 373,727 1,517 4,046
Apples 240,447 1,711 1,702
Pears 45,342 1,587 387
Fish 1643,259 6,380 130
1 Derived from the total catch of eligible species of 649,769.