Champagne

HC Deb 08 February 1994 vol 237 cc224-5W

Mr. Gordon Prentice

To ask the President of the Board of Trade how many bottles of champagne were imported from France in each year since 1979.

Mr. Needham

Information on imports of champagne is not available in terms of bottles. The available information is given in the following table:

Year	Million litres
1979	7.18
1980	6.43
1981	6.04
1982	5.93
1983	7.52
1984	9.12
1985	11.41
1986	12.40
1987	14.38
1988	15.48
1989	18.04
1990	16.12
1991	10.58
1992	11.10