HC Deb 09 July 1969 vol 786 c263W
62. Mr. John Wells

asked the President of the Board of Trade why increasing quotas of imported fresh soft fruit are being given each year to Hungary; and why the sub-quota of 500 tons for blackcurrants that applied in 1968 has been relaxed in 1969 so that it is possible for the whole quota figure of 1,575 tons to be taken up with blackcurrants in a year when home prices are unprecedentedly low in real terms.

Mrs. Gwyneth Dunwoody

This relaxation of a discriminatory import restriction was made in the interests of Anglo-Hungarian trade. We are satisfied that it does not seriously threaten the British horticultural industry.