§ Mr. HinchliffeTo ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what steps he is taking to monitor170W Department submitted to the judgment and (d) the Department appealed successfully against the judicial review decision. [33571]
§ Mr. Boswell[holding answer 19 June 1996]: There have been 11 concluded applications for judicial review commenced since the 1991–92 Session of decisions by the Ministry. The Ministry's decision was upheld by the court in all but three cases. The first involved a challenge to a decision of the dairy produce quota tribunal and resulted in the case being remitted to a differently constituted tribunal; the second involved imports of potatoes and citrus fruit from northern Cyprus. That case is currently subject to appeal to the Court of Appeal and involves cross actions by the Greek Cypriot and Turkish companies. The third case is that involving sheep annual premium and suckler cow premium quotas referred to in the answer to the earlier question.