§ Mr. Corbettasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, following the Council of Ministers decision that for the 1976–77 marketing year there should be a two-tier intervention price structure for bread-making and non-bread-making wheat, what adjustments are being made to the minimum quality standards applicable to wheat offered into intervention in the United Kingdom.
§ Mr. BishopThe minimum quality standards applicable to wheat of bread-making quality will remain the same as those announced in the House on 2nd August 1972 as applicable to milling wheat. For wheat of non-breadmaking quality the minimum specific weight eligible for offer into intervention has now been fixed at 69 kg/hl—55.2 lb/bushel—instead of 72 kg/hl—57.6 lb/ bushel—as previously; the maximum permitted quality of broken grains will be 8 per cent., instead of 5 per cent., as previously; or sprouted grains 6 per cent., instead of 2 per cent., and of shrivelled grains 10 per cent., instead of 5 per cent.
§ Mr. Corbettasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, following the Council of Ministers decision that for the 1976–77 marketing year there should be a two-tier intervention price structure for bread-making and non-bread-making wheat, what adjustments 240W are being made to the minmum quantities of wheat for offer into intervention.
§ Mr. BishopMy right hon. Friends the Minister of Agriculture and Secretaries of State for Scotland and Northern Ireland, and my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Wales, have decided that in the changed circumstances the minimum quantity of wheat for offer into intervention, whether as breadmaking or non-bread making wheat, should be reduced from 200 tons to 100 tonnes.