§ Mr. Conlanasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will give details of the latest estimate he has made of expenditure in 1974–75 by the Intervention Board for Agricultural Produce under the common market organisations of the EEC, together with comparable figures for the preceding year.
§ Mr. PeartFollowing are the details of the latest estimates for the financial year 1974–75 together with comparable figures for the outturn in the financial year 1973–74.
EXPENDITURE BY THE INTERVENTION BOARD FOR AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE Latest estimate of outturn 1974–75 Actual outturn 1973–74 £ million £ million Cereals 5.5 21.3 Beef and veal 68.9 1.2 Pigmeat 16.1 19.0 Sugar 45.5 2.6 Herbage and field bean seeds 1.4 1.4 Processed products 16.7 9.7 Milk products 36.4 29.5 Other 2.0 0.9 TOTAL 192.5 85.6