§ 39. Mr. Martenasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what talks he has now held with Common Market countries about the effect on British agriculture of Great Britain's joining the Common Market.
§ Mr. PeartI have held no formal talks with E.E.C. countries on this subject, although from time to time I have met and discussed many matters of common interest with agricultural Ministers of the Six. My Department has frequent contacts with their official representatives on all matters of common concern in the food and agricultural sector in the course of its normal business. In addi-256W tion there have, of course, been the talks which my right hon. Friends the Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary have been having with Governments of the Six.