HC Deb 03 April 1973 vol 854 c68W
Mr. Biffen

asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food on what date and at what price the British Sugar Corporation last charged for wholesale ex-factory dried molassed beet pulp.

Mr. Godber

By mid-January, the British Sugar Corporation Ltd. had sold approximately 550,000 tons of dried molassed beet pulp to growers and merchants at the following scale of wholesale ex-factory prices, published in early September 1972.

Month of delivery £ per ton
1972
October 24.50
November 25.00
December 25.50
1973
January 26.00

Its remaining stocks, comprising just over 12,000 tons, were sold in response to offers from merchants during the second half of January. It would not be appropriate to disclose the prices of these individual transactions as they are matters of commercial confidence between the corporation and the merchants in question.