HC Deb 15 July 1996 vol 281 cc417-8W
Mr. Austin Mitchell

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food which members of the EU are currently opposing the removal of the ban on the export of British beef; and on what grounds. [32211]

Mrs. Browning

In Florence on 21 June, the European Council unanimously accepted the framework and procedures put forward by the Commission for lifting the wider ban on British beef.