§ Ms QuinTo ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when the European Union Agriculture Council last discussed the question of common agricultural policy related fraud. [33610]
§ Mr. BaldryFraud against the EU budget, which includes the CAP, is more appropriate to the European Council of Finance Ministers, which discusses Community anti-fraud initiatives regularly, the last occasion being 19 June. In the Agriculture Council, reducing the scope for fraud forms an important part of the Council's consideration of all new proposals or any amendments to existing CAP legislation.