HC Deb 17 July 1990 vol 176 cc524-5W
Mr. Allan Stewart

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what consultations he intends to have on the report by the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries on the Aberdeen and district milk marketing board's commercial operations.

Lord James Douglas-Hamilton

[holding answer 16 July 1990]: The Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland published a report on 7 June 1990 on the relationship between the Aberdeen and district milk marketing board's producer activities and its commercial division. The Aberdeen and district milk marketing board and the Scottish Dairy Trade Federation have been invited to consider the report and its conclusions and to submit their views to the Department by 1 October 1990.