Milk Powder (Hansard, 13 October 1975)

§ Mr. Jay
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what is the present amount of milk powder held in storage by the EEC.

§ Mr. Bishop
The total amount of skimmed milk powder held in storage by EEC intervention agencies at the beginning of October was 1,038,000 tonnes.

§ Mr. Jay
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what is the total of EEC funds spent in the present year to date on intervention buying of milk powder, subsidising sales outside the EEC and feeding of powder to cattle.

§ Mr. Bishop
The first available estimates of expenditure in the first six months of this year are as follows:

Unit of account £ (at £1 = 2.4 ua)

Intervention buying of skimmed milk powder 24,000 10,000

Subsidy in liquid skimmed milk and skimmed milk powder used for animal feed^* 253,000 105,000

Restitutions on exports of milk products† 130,000 54,000

^* No breakdown between the use of liquid skimmed milk and skimmed milk powder or between the types of livestock involved is available.

† No breakdown of the total cost of expenditure on restitutions is available.

	Unit of account	£ (at £1 = 2.4 ua)
Intervention buying of skimmed milk powder	24,000	10,000
Subsidy in liquid skimmed milk and skimmed milk powder used for animal feed^*	253,000	105,000
Restitutions on exports of milk products†	130,000	54,000
^* No breakdown between the use of liquid skimmed milk and skimmed milk powder or between the types of livestock involved is available.
† No breakdown of the total cost of expenditure on restitutions is available.