§ Mr. John Stradling Thomasasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food how many full-time pest officers are employed by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (a) in the field and (b) in research; and how many full-time pest officers were employed 10 years ago in the same categories.
§ Mr. PeartThe numbers of pest officers engaged full-time by my Department in the control of pests harmful to agriculture and stored food products are 75 inspectors and advisers in the field and 174 scientific staff in research. The
PER TONNE—AVERAGE FOR JUNE 1976 "World Price" cif United Kingdom*‡ Accession compensatory amounts for United Kingdom Units of account Units of account †converted at the market rate for sterling EEC Threshold price Units of account EEC Common levy Units of account§ Monetary compensatory amounts for United Kingdom Net levy on United Kingdom imports║ £ £ £ Wheat … 82.64 117.99 150.45 39.17 26.62 14.93 -6.34 Maize … 73.81 105.38 137.40 30.31 23.35 10.05 -8.68 Barley … 70.41 100.52 138.00 27.10 25.08 10.23 -5.46 * Average unit value of United Kingdom imports. Source: Overseas Trade Statistics of the United Kingdom—Customs and Excise tabulation sheets. †£1 = 1.427714 ua. ‡ Soft wheat and barley from Canada, and maize from the USA. § The EEC Common levy on any day is the margin between (A) the lowest offer price recorded on the previous day at the Community frontiers, adjusted to its equivalent at Rotterdam cif and to a standard quality, and (B) the prevailing Community threshold price. This margin usually differs from the margin between the United Kingdom average import price and the prevailing Community threshold price. ║ The net results from subtracting the United Kingdom accession compensatory amount from the EEC common levy, converting the result to sterling using the representative rate, converting this to its market exchange rate equivalent and then subtracting the monetary compensatory amount. A negative levy is a subsidy on United Kingdom imports.