HC Deb 02 February 1973 vol 849 cc495-6W
Mr. Farr

asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what premia will be paid in the United Kingdom for denaturing of wheat.

Mr. Godber

These will be as follows, respectively for admixture—mixing wheat with substances, such as dyes or fishoil, to make it unsuitable for human consumption—and for incorporation into animal feedingstuffs:

Admixture Incorporation
£/ton ua/m ton £/ton ua/m ton
February 7.26 15.47 6.79 14.47
March 7.37 15.69 6.90 14.69
April 7.47 15.91 7.00 14.91
May/July 7.57 16.13 7.10 15.13

These amounts are in each case 0.47/ ton (1 uq/m ton) less than those in the original Community of Six. The main element in these premia is one designed to bring the price of wheat down to that of barley at intervention levels and is equal to this difference in the Community basic intervention prices at Duisburg. Since in the three acceding States this margin is not the same, their premia have been adjusted.