§ Miss McIntoshTo ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will make a statement on Milk Marque's application to expand into processing milk products. [91413]
§ Mr. RookerIn his statement of 6 July, the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry stated that Milk Marque, while it remains a monopoly supplier of raw milk to the processing sector, should not be allowed to extend its milk processing activities in the way planned. He therefore asked the Director General of Fair Trading to seek undertakings from Milk Marque that it would not take any further steps towards making or carrying out any agreement to acquire or build processing plant without prior agreement by the Director General.