HC Deb 24 January 1975 vol 884 cc529-30W
Mr. Grist

asked the Secretary of State for Trade (1) what was the volume of food imports by type from each of the other eight members of the EEC for each of the last five years;

(2) what was the value of food imports by type from each of the other eight members of the EEC for each of the last five years.

Mr. Deakins

For years 1970 to 1972 information at division level is published in Table I of the appropriate Annual Statement of Overseas Trade and for years 1973 and 1974 in Table II of the monthly Overseas Trade Statistics for December 1973 and December 1974. An advance version of the latter is in the House of Commons Library. Information at division level of the volume of food imports is not available, but the sources referred to above include a considerable amount of information about the quantity of individual commodities imported from the principal supplying countries.