§ Mr. Eldon Griffithsasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will give figures for the quantity of malting and feeding barley produced in Great Britain in 1966, or the last year for which figures are available; and what proportion of the total was exported.
§ Mr. HoyThe latest figures available relate to the 1965 barley crop. The proportion of malting quality is unknown but 1,208,000 tons were taken up by maltsters and distillers, and usage for animal feeding is estimated at 5,362,000 tons. Separate figures for exports from Great Britain are not available, but exports from the United Kingdom in the cereal year 1965–66, which included some 1964 crop barley, amounted to 738.000 tons.